talked to the Nets, their head coach Kevin Loughery called him in and said, You know why I have to let you go, said Alswanger. The syndicate was able to lay nine points when the game was first available to be bet, and therefore pushed. This past August, the International Maxibasketball Federation (FIMBA), the governing body for global organized basketball tournaments for age groups beginning at 30, named him as its USA Ambassador. The campus was so beautiful. It was the government's contention that the scheme originated when Mazzei contacted Burke and said he had a friend in Pittsburgh who knew a player on the Boston College team and that there was a possibility for a betting scheme in which they could make thousands of dollars. Hill brought in his mentor, Jimmy Burke, to finance the operation and set up a network of bookies who could advance the financial potential of the scheme. Of course, the damn players had a million excuses, Henry Hill wrote in Sports Illustrateds bombshell story, How I Put The Fix In, which was the magazines cover story on February 16th, 1981. The Worst Fix Ever. ESPN, ESPN Internet Ventures, 3 Oct. 2014, www.espn.com/espn/chalk/story/_/id/11633538/betting-chronicling-worst-fix-ever-1978-79-bc-point-shaving-scandal. Do you recognize him? And my answer every time was, No! I didnt recognize any of those mobsters because I had never met them. We were all so excited for him. This offers a students perspective of how they never thought their team could have been fixing teams. Cobb was drafted by the Utah Jazz in the 6th Round and cut during training camp. All Kuhn had to do was ensure that the Eagles fell short of the point spread in the games that they bet on. It was all so positive.. I didnt like dealing with a third party I didnt know and had never metBut the word came back that Cobb was enthusiastic and, dont worry Henry, nothing can screw up now., In the 30-for-30 documentary that ESPN just aired, Henry Hill admits that he never talked to me, said Cobb. Professional wrestler Jay Briscoe dies in car accident at 38, Sister Andre, world's oldest living person, dies at 118, Ukraine's interior minister, other officials killed in helicopter crash near school, Qantas flight lands safely after engine trouble prompts mayday call, Meditation may alter gut microbes, study of Tibetan monks suggests. Sweeney took out one of those little schedule cards, circled the games he thought we could fool around with, and gave the card to me. . Said Hill, "I asked the players which of the upcoming games they felt we could shave. Sports. Early on, before the season got underway, Cobb says that he was approached by a man from Pittsburgh named Rocco Perla, who hed seen hanging around campus with his teammate, senior forward Rick Kuhn. Although Cobb and Sweeney received money and were a part of the scandal, the FBI did not prosecute them in the first round and were primarily focused on getting the mobsters. Sweeney claims that hes heard network execs at a sports business conference in Florida express a desire for such a character to pop up with occasional humorous commentary. NEW YORK -- Former Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn, jailed for his 1981 conviction in a point-shaving scandal, has asked for a reduction of his 10-year Regardless of what the audience thinks, the eyes of the law he is not guilty. These bookies could handle large bets and lay them off and spread the bets among a number of unsuspecting bookmakers around the country so as not to arouse suspicion. Kuhn was thus expected to keep the score below the six- to seven-point margin. This scene gives the audience insight into the type of person Henry Hill was and how hard it was to testify against someone like Burke. Hill was listed as a co-conspirator, but was not named as a defendant. Testifying for the government, Sweeney acknowledged meeting with Hill but said that although he agreed to participate in the scheme he never intended to go through with the deal. Sweeney, starter and team captain, intentionally fouls himself out of the game. Rick Kuhn, 55, passed away peacefully on September 12, 2022, in his home in West Fargo, ND, surrounded by his family. The Boston Globe reported on Friday that Cobb and Bowie are targets of the federal probe into allegations of point-shaving in three Eagles games. Jason Avant Chief Operating Officer at ASTAR, Inc. . With the focus limited to the specific players involved, BCs basketball program didnt suffer at all. To allay any suspicions of foul play, they decided to bet on Boston College to win by more than the point spread ("cover the spread") in a game that they were confident the Eagles would win handily. "Boston College's tradition in athletics rests upon the accomplishments of many thousands of men and women. Heading into his senior season in 1978-1979, as the team captain, Cobb was hoping that he could lead his team to the NCAA Tournament. The jury of eight women and four men reached its verdict after three days of deliberations and a trial that lasted five weeks. 5 Convicted in Boston College Betting Case By Bart Barnes November 24, 1981 A federal jury in Brooklyn yesterday convicted former Boston College basketball I dont know if the losses can ever be made upnot the losses me and my family and friends have suffered. They couldnt stop him. Kuhn would be responsible for ensuring, by his play on the court, that Boston College fell short of the point spread. I feel like I did all that fighting after I lost my dream of playing in the NBA, and it was all in vain. They all have different versions of the story, but regardless games are going to start being fixed. Result is the outcome of the syndicate's bets. In early February, Boston College was scheduled to play two New York State teams, Fordham and St. John's. Joe Beaulieu, the starting center on the 1978-79 Boston College team, also testified he was approached by Kuhn to participate in the plan, but he said he rejected the proposal. And now, here I was on that same floor, pumped sky high, giving my defender buckets! Although Cobb maintains that he received money from Rocco, he claims it was just for winning the game even though Rocco claims he knew for sure. Several college coaches, contacted at the time that news of the investigation broke, said point shaving -- when the favored team tries to win by less than the point spread -- in basketball is almost impossible to detect and that there is no way of telling how much, if any, point shaving goes undetected. Jimmy said he was finished. The FBI agent is shocked and doesnt believe him, but begins to ask questions. On June 23rd, 1983, more than four years after hed played his final game at Boston College, Ernie Cobb was indicted and charged with taking cash bribes to alter the outcomes of games against Harvard, Rhode Island and Fordham. So, in very basic terms, if B.C. But I dont feel any bitterness toward the prosecution. [ii] Holy Cross ultimately won by only two points, as Cobb scored eight points in the final minute to bring the Eagles close, and everyone involved lost a substantial amount of money. "It really could be far more serious and more of an annual situation than anyone suspects," said Ralph Miller, basketball coach at Oregon State University. But I found out that I wouldnt be allowed to leave the United States because the government was going to bring me to trial.. He graduated from Woodworth Public School in 1985 and earned a bachelors degree from University of Sioux Falls. Rocco Perla received a four-year sentence and Rick Kuhn was sentenced to a ten-year bid as well, which was later reduced to 28 months. "He said he had a betting thing set up in a way to make money during the season so that we could be taken care of," said Reed, now a nurse in Syracuse, N.Y. Reed also testified that Kuhn threatened to kill her if she ever told of the scheme. I just thank God there is justice.. But by his sophomore year, when he was inserted into the starting lineup, it was apparent that the 5-foot-11 scorer brought a dimension to the Boston College squad that it sorely needed when he averaged 17.4 points per game. All Kuhn had to do was ensure that the Eagles fell short of the point spread in the games that they bet on. So, in very basic terms, if B.C. was favored to win a game by ten points, Kuhn had to make sure, if the game was in play with the mobsters and the bookies, that they won by less than ten in order for the gamblers to make money. In the time of COVID-19, sports fans everywhere are trying to find ways to pass the time. Ernie, and anybody who truly knew him, who knew about his character and what type of young man he was, we were all heartbroken. They mentioned the $1,000 that Rocco Perla gave my girlfriend and I told them the truth. Intentional point shaving on the floor was never proven, and if Hill hadnt later confessed the scheme to prosecutors after getting busted for his other crimes, the whole ordeal might have passed without notice. We had a good old time. Testifying for the defense, Boston College basketball Coach Tom Davis said at no point during the 1978-79 season did he notice any of his players giving anything less than a 100 percent effort. Loughery told me that I had the ability to play in the NBA. Can anyone shed some Kuhn's attorney, Gary Zimmerman, said his client recognized the seriousness of his crimes and that his stiff jail sentence 'was a stern warning to other college athletes.'. It would fit with ESPN, which reports sports but also has an underlying self-deprecating humor, is basically his pitch. Hill reportedly cleared over $100,000 ($373,400 today) and bettors higher up the line were said to have made up to $250,000 ($933,400 today). Kuhn told people at Boston College later At trial in 1981, the government's case consisted primarily of the testimony of Hill and three other witnesses: Sweeney and Joseph Beaulieu, both Boston College players, and Barbara Reed, a 23-year-old nurse who lived with Kuhn during the 197879 Eagles season. Rocco Perla and Kuhn were high-school classmates. Golub was a brilliant lawyer, and he told me that hed have to interview Ernie first to see if he was gonna take the case on. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A class ring that went missing decades ago has been returned to its owner. He was hopeful that hed have another chance to make it in the NBA. Zimmerman also asked the court to consider Kuhn's 'crime-free background' and his cooperation with federal authorities in the Cobb case. The distinguished paper later retracted the story. NEW YORK -- Former Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn, jailed for his 1981 conviction in a point-shaving scandal, has asked for a reduction of his 10-year prison sentence. Im not angry at the school. Sweeney describes his side of the story, claiming he is invited to dinner with Kuhn and Tony, where he meets Henry Hill who threatens to kill him if he doesnt begin fixing games with Kuhn. Jim Sweeney admits that Kuhn gave him cash. Jimmy Burke goes berserk and shatters his own TV. He says that Hill once referenced his girlfriend Maura (now his wife) in one of his threats, asking Sweeney how would your honey feel if she saw your --- hanging in a bracelet? He also says that other mob clichs like references to cement shoes are not just the stuff of Hollywood. Kuhn explains to Sweeney that they are both going to get killed after not successfully fixing a game against Providence. I loved it in Israel, the fans loved me and the people were so beautiful. The Providence game was played on December 6, 1978, and Boston College was favored to win by six to seven points. Convinced that Cobb was innocent after his mentee walked him through everything that had transpired, and certain that he was being used by the federal government to send more organized crime figures to prison, Alswanger began working the phones. For over 30 years, hes been living in Clearwater, Florida, married to his college sweetheart. I was relishing that moment. Alswanger, my high school coach inspired me to rise above my circumstances, he continued. I understand that they want to disassociate themselves from the scandal. II. The Shadow League, 29 May 2017, theshadowleague.com/30-years-after-his-exoneration-former-bc-hoops-star-ernie-cobb-is-still-fighting-to-clear-his-name-pt-ii/. In the 1979 NBA Draft, Magic Johnson was the first overall pick of the Los Angeles Lakersafter leading Michigan State University to the National Championship over Larry Birds Indiana State team. A former Boston College basketball player and four other men were charged yesterday with conspiring to fix six basketball games during the 1978-79 season by shaving points. Ultimately, nothing happened. You gotta tell me the truth, because I gotta know how to go on this?. And that kept him in Hills clutches. He sold copy machines and paved driveways for an asphalt company, which was ironically the same job his father found when hed relocated from North Carolina to Connecticut some twenty years earlier. Sweeney says that he and Maura have almost recouped their costs in launching the character. Jim Sweeney is a happy guy. In addition, they were given the opportunity to bet the money they were paid and double their winnings. The point-shaving allegations surfaced during an unrelated investigation into the 1978 theft of $5.8 million from the Lufthansa cargo terminal at New Yorks Kennedy Airport. Rocco says Sweeney told him he missed it to avoid a pair of cement shoes. I admitted to receiving that money, and spending it. At this point in the film, we stray away from the actual point-shaving and more into the consequences and investigation after the fact. The other two kids made whatever choices they made, but look what was done to Ernie. For the conspiracy to work, the men knew they would need the cooperation of other players on the team, according to the testimony of Henry Hill, a convicted felon and the key prosecution witness. BOSTON - NOVEMBER 17: Rick Kuhn (#35) during Boston College men's basketball's 1978-1979 season. It was a sweet victory for prosecutors against Burke, for whom they failed to even build a charge against for his biggest crime, the famous $6 million Lufthansa heist. With Roccos high school buddy Rick Kuhn entering his senior year at Boston College, where he was expected to be a contributor to the schools basketball team, the brothers figured they could make a ton of money. The court papers said Kuhn of Swissvale, Pa., has agreed to testify against former teammate Ernie Cobb, 27, a basketball player from Stamford, Conn. Cobb has pleaded innocent to a charge of conspiring to commit sports bribery,a charge stemming from the point-shaving scandal. They would also ensure protection for the enterprise in the event that the unsuspecting bookmakers, all of whom had toughs at their disposal to collect unpaid debts, discovered they were being swindled. However, Kuhn saw only limited playing time. was favored to win a game by ten points, Kuhn had to make sure, if the game was in play with the mobsters and the bookies, that they won by less than ten in order for the gamblers to make money. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The Justice Department Wednesday filed a complaint against a sheriff's department in Cumberland County, Tenn., alleging it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when firing an officer with an opioid use disorder. Apparently, someone called into the online editor the second to inform them of the "miss." On the stand during the trial, Rick Kuhns girlfriend, Barbara Reed, with whom he shared an apartment during his senior year at Boston College, testified that she overheard Kuhn and Sweeney discussing the Fordham game, saying that they had to keep the ball away from Cobb because he shot the ball all the time. Hill flew into Boston, at the behest of Jimmy Burke, late in 1978 to meet with Mazzei, the Perlas, Kuhn and Sweeney at the Logan Airport Hilton and ensure that everything was in place. would play a few games each year, Cobb was awash with emotions. The six games figuring in the point-shaving case were Boston College against Providence, Dec. 6; Harvard, Dec. 16; UCLA, Dec. 23; Fordham, Feb. 3; St. John's, Feb. 6, and Holy Cross, Feb. 10. Rick was born on October 14, 1966, in Jamestown, ND, to Timothy Kuhn and Marretta (Deede) Kuhn. But it wasnt a coincidence that one day, the F.B.I shows up asking me about gambling, and the next day Im no longer with the team. She knew the terrain in terms of what I needed to be doing, said Cobb. This is important because it shows how it was a poorly run operation. won the gangsters some serious money by falling short of the spread. Rocco comes up to me and says, Hey, sometimes I bet on games and I wanna know how you think you guys are gonna do against Stonehill and Bentley? said Cobb. After narrowly missing the NBA - Cobb was among the last players cut by the New Jersey Nets in 1980 - he played professionally in Israel and later became a high school coach in Phoenix. In this game, UCLA was favored to win over the Eagles by a fifteen to eighteen-point spread, so the syndicate bet on them to win by a margin greater than the point spread. My girlfriend and I bought a new stereo, television and some furniture. Perla and Kuhn had gone to high school together and were good friends. Holy Cross was favored to win and, consistent with the scheme, were bet on to win by a margin greater than the seven-point spread. Kuhn's sentence was the heaviest ever imposed on a college player convicted of point shaving. I was forthright and honest with them. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images All of those guys walkedin his footsteps., He was the African-American guard in the modern era of B.C. I was shining at the camp. And yeah, I took that money. But Im so proud of him because he picked his life back up and made the best of it. Man, I would watch Jo Jo White, Dave Cowens and John Havlicek playing on television, on that same famous floor where Bill Russell and Bob Cousy and all of those great Celtics teams won all those championships, said Cobb. It goes to show that crimes like these dont stay in the past, especially when they involve other peoples money. Music. I dont know if they recognize it, but B.C. For Cobb, the result was far worse. When the story first broke, it said that Michael Bowie and I were the ones implicated, said Cobb. He was a murderer and a horrible human being. They had Kuhn approach Ernie Cobb, the leading scorer on the team, but it has never been proven if Cobb agreed to cooperate. On August 12, 2008, an anonymous user edited the Wikipedia article on the scandal, naming former player Joe Streater as an accomplice in the point-shaving, recruited by Kuhn alongside Sweeney. Im going off on the basketball court, scoring like crazy, the gamblers are losing their shirts, and they start talking about, We have to have Cobb. Anybody thats ever seen me play knows that I was only stuck in one gear, and that was super-charged-turbo! Rocco Perla was sentenced to four years' imprisonment. It is similar to how they captured Al Capone on tax evasion, the smaller of his many crimes that would ultimately put him away. I took every single practice and every single game seriously, said Cobb. We werent really checking for B.C. Tell me what you did and what you didnt do. Whats striking about the point shaving scandal from the perspective of 35 years is how different, i.e. The 197879 Boston College Eagles men's basketball team represented Boston College during the 197879 NCAA men's It was a tragedy that he never got another chance to play in the NBA., Kevin Loughery never gave me a firm reason why the Nets were letting me go, said Cobb. Those later betters on St. John's lost money because they laid more than the eventual nine point margin of victory. We get home, I open it up, and theres $1,000 in there.. The headlines in Boston, and around the country, said that Cobb and fellow senior Michael Bowie, the teams two African-American stars, were the players that were implicated. But that had nothing to do with shaving points., At the time, I was nave, Cobb continued. Boeing's fuel-efficient aircraft design wins $425 million award from NASA. Visser became the NFLs first female beat writer in 1976, when she was assigned by the paper to cover the New England Patriots. But my high school coach got his friends to take my case, pro bono. The Globe would later admit that they were wrong in reporting that Bowie was involved, after he was not implicated nor investigated by the federal government for any role in the scandal. The December 16 game against Harvard was chosen as the second test for the scheme. The government won convictions against Burke, the Perlas , Mazzei and Kuhn thanks in part to testimony from Sweeney, who was neither charged nor offered immunity. In a formal statement issued by its communications office, Boston College said the school's community "is saddened by the fact that one of our former student basketball players has been found guilty of the serious charges of which he was accused . Greater Boston. The police have Henry Hill as an informant in hopes that he will have information on his boss, Jimmy Burke and other mobsters involved in the Lufthansa robbery, where five million dollars was stolen in the heist. I saw Ernie score 28 points against the Celtics in one of the final pre-season games when he was with the Nets, said Alswanger, Cobbs former high school coach. In 1978, Rick Kuhn was in his final season at Boston College,amarginal player with little going for him. While Hill was trying to bury Burke, Sweeney was trying to bury Kuhn. Film. The Boys of Dunbar, A Story of Love, Hope and Basketball. They left, and that was that. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. I was doing well academically and the dream of playing professional basketball was getting closer.. But for many, there is a fierce bitterness that still lingers to this day. A few blocks from Boston College, the place that held so much meaning to him, where hed worked so hard to create his lifes purpose, the symbolism was inescapable when he found that he had a flat tire. ESPN Looks Back On Boston College Point Shaving Scandal And A Player Speaks Out. Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 1 Oct. 2014, www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2014/10/01/espn-looks-back-on-boston-college-point-shaving-scandal-and-a-player-speaks-out/#3f03989d26b8. The Perla brothers were small-time gamblers who saw the upcoming 197879 Boston College Eagles basketball season as a perfect opportunity to earn a lot of money. Even though he was not guilty, Boston College has erased them from their memory. Being at Boston College, when I first got there, was so amazing, said Cobb. Said Hill, "He wanted me to fly up to Boston. I want to be disassociated from it as well. You may opt-out by. It wasnt until I actually saw him play that I realized how special he was as an offensive talent. I told him, I think were gonna blow them out, we look really good. now all well past their primes after serving their time, including the gangster Ray It is quite a ride, so please, enjoy it. They were aware that bookmakers generally accepted large bets on this game both because Boston College and Holy Cross were traditional rivals and because the game was being nationally televised. But by the next summer, in 1980, he sparkled while playing for the New Jersey Nets during the pre-season. Thats the real strength of his story, that you pick yourself up and make something of yourself.. Class ring returned to Texas woman after missing for decades. The scheme was conceived by Rocco Perla and his brother Anthony in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1978. While the line may have been as low as 13 at some point, the syndicate had to lay 15, and therefore lost their bet when Rhode Island won by only 13. Mizzou understands that Hill was doing what he had to do to survive. The abbreviated version of events reads like this:the Perlas brought in a Pittsburgh hood named Paul Mazzei, who contacted his friend Henry Hill, an associate of New Yorks Lucchese crime family that had befriended him during a stretch in federal prison. The fact that I went to court and fought for my name, that I stood up for myself and cleared my name, that I was exonerated and acquitted, its a travesty that Im still associated with this., My name is indelibly linked to it, Cobb continued. [3] Kuhn was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment,[4] later reduced to 28 months. I walk in the bathroom, and who was in there but Peter Vario, the big-time mobster that was on trial with Ernie, said Alswanger. He is a participant in the Federal Witness Protection Program and is receiving government protection in exchange for his testimony. His testimony continued terribly, he was a nervous wreck, he was rambling about unnecessary information and he couldnt even look in Burkes direction. Rocco and Tony Perla were giving money to Rick Kuhn. Sweeney was not charged. The next step in the saga is how these players get connected to the mob. He graduated on time with a degree in sociology. With Sweeney making it out with no sentence, the mystery still remains of how involved he really was. Kuhn went on to live a quiet life only talking about the scandal to high school students encouraging them to not make the same mistakes. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A man who posed as a cannabis billionaire plead guilty Wednesday to securities fraud for lying to investors about his wealth, education and business. I feel like if I can change one life, like he changed mine, man, it makes everything Ive been through worthwhile., Copyright 2009-2021, All Rights Reserved | The Shadow League. At one point, he said accepted $500 from Kuhn, but only to give the illusion of cooperating in the scheme. Even after being informed of the investigation, he said he noticed nothing unusual after reviewing films of the games. Bookmakers, on seeing the heavy action, moved the line as high as twelve to discourage bets on the favorite (St. John's) and attract more bets on the underdog. Paul Mazzei explains that there is no time to change your mind in their business. The intense music, clues in the audience that this is where it all comes out. But its one of the most famous in sports history, to which Sweeneys name will be forever linked. After discussing their strategy with Kuhn and Sweeney, it was agreed that an upcoming game against Providence would be an appropriate test for their scheme. The audience gets one on one interviews with each person to see the scandal from their perspective. Sweeney has won several FIMBA tournaments as a player in the 50-plus division. His lifes dream of making it to the NBA, which was where he belonged, was taken away from him. Staff. Hes now happily at work on his latest project, a sports cartoon character named Mike (as in microphone) that appears on his daily sports blog and in 35 comic books downloadable on Amazon. Des., University of Florida; MArch, Harvard GSD Professional interests: My passion lies in all things design but specifically in higher education, cultural and civic projects. Cobb, for his part, was tried for conspiracy and acquitted. 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