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. 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. Hill turned state's evidence in exchange for avoiding prison and possible execution by Burke and the Lucchese family. His girlfriend, whom hed met during his first week on campus, was an upperclassman that knew how to navigate the schools academic landscape. In this case, while the spread was as high as 5, the syndicate was able to lay just 2 points, and therefore pushed when Holy Cross won by 2. Loughery told me that I had the ability to play in the NBA. 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. Overall, the real end to the Boston College point-shaving scandal is the trial, the main conflict of the film. In this case, while the line may have opened, or at one time gone to two, because of the heavy betting on Holy Cross, the syndicate had to lay as many as seven points, and therefore lost their bet. I was back at home, visiting for the summer and about to return to Israel, Cobb said. My girlfriend and I bought a new stereo, television and some furniture. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A class ring that went missing decades ago has been returned to its owner. A federal jury in Brooklyn yesterday convicted former Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn and four codefendants of conspiring to manipulate the scores of Boston College games during the 1978-79 season. 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. A grand jury indicted Burke, Mazzei, Kuhn, and the Perla brothers. They left, and that was that. I never lied about that. Hill and Burke both were convicted of extortion in 1972 in Florida and have been prime suspects in the Dec. 11, 1978, robbery of almost $9 million from the Lufthansa Cargo Terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Zimmerman also asked the court to consider Kuhn's 'crime-free background' and his cooperation with federal authorities in the Cobb case. Towards the end of the film, we see Hill and Mizzou, one of the people Hill snitched on, are meeting at a restaurant 30 years later. It wasnt an absolute disaster but it was a cousin. Kuhn grew up to be 6-foot-8, and signed a minor league contract with the Cincinnati Reds right after finishing high school. Sweeney agreed to cooperate claiming he was forced to help with the fix, Kuhn came clean about the whole operation, and Cobb was cut from the Nets after the FBI visited him despite him not having any real information. At the close of the two-week trial, Alswanger was the last character witness who took the stand in Cobbs behalf. The story breaks to the media and the massive investigation followed. A fitness fanatic who augmented his training by swimming and riding his bicycle very long distances, Cobb hopped on his ten-speed shortly after the indictment was announced and began pedaling. I thought he might have been a student, because he was young and I saw him hanging around Rick Kuhn all the time. You gotta tell me the truth, because I gotta know how to go on this?. indictments charged against them. By my junior year, it was show-time, said Cobb. 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. 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. They contacted a local friend, Paul Mazzei, who was known to have influence within major New York gambling circles. Keeping Score: Close Shave. Greenfield Recorder, Greenfield Recorder, 27 Apr. Jimmy Burke goes berserk and shatters his own TV. 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. Ernie Cobb played professional basketball in Israel for 17 years, where he learned to speak fluent Hebrew. They greet each other like old friends; there is no bitterness between them. She also recalled Kuhn saying that Cobb was too into his own game to cooperate with the betting thing, but the New York gangsters were adamant about getting him involved. My parents have suffered. The February 6 game against St. John's was a "push" (winning back exact bets), as the syndicate neither won nor lost when St. John's prevailed 8576, the exact point spread (nine) the bookmakers had offered.[i]. It is quite a ride, so please, enjoy it. 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. The very next day, the Nets cut me., When the F.B.I. 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. He recently earned his Masters Degree in Education and is currently considering pursuing a Ph.D. I feel like Ive led a remarkable life, he said. Hes innocent., When they indicted me, they wanted Peter Vario, the mobster, so they tried us together, said Cobb. The conspirators chose the January 17, 1979, game against Connecticut to implement this plan. 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 took advantage of an opportunity that surfaced when a pro team from Israel offered him a spot on their roster. But I know that its not really in vain, because I know the truth.. The intense music, clues in the audience that this is where it all comes out. I never got to realize my dream of playing in the NBA, but Ive been all over the globe and have experienced so many different and beautiful cultures. When he was implicated in the scandal, I was shocked.. Sweeney has won several FIMBA tournaments as a player in the 50-plus division. Boston College confirmed the investigation on Friday. Said Hill, "He wanted me to fly up to Boston. It is similar to how they captured Al Capone on tax evasion, the smaller of his many crimes that would ultimately put him away. But by the next summer, in 1980, he sparkled while playing for the New Jersey Nets during the pre-season. The structure includes a minute-by-minute analysis, a slow-motion capture of the climax of the story, and a bolded narrative that gives the article structure. Coupled with the narration being done by Ray Liotta, the actor that played Henry Hill in the movie, adding to the films overall gangster aesthetic. We had a good old time. Burke instructed Hill to warn the players to keep to their end of the deal because "you can't play basketball with broken hands.". The Eagles managed to lose by 22 points, 10381, with the syndicate winning its bet. He talks about how he wanted to be an NBA player. Hes a good person. Rick Kuhn was an older player who was friends with Sweeney and a tough, street smart kid with a different upbringing than Sweeney. They treated me great. The teams coach, Tom Davis, kept his job and led the Eagles to a few more strong seasons, including a 1982 Elite Eight appearance, before jumping at a big offer from Stanford and then later moving on to Iowa. I was a senior in high school when Ernie Cobb was a senior at Boston College and Id heard that he was a very good player, said Lemuel Mills, a Boston area hoops aficionado, coach, community mentor and historian. He really set the tone in terms of being a strong, dynamic, willful player that wondrous talents like John Bagley, Michael Adams and Dana Barros, all of whom went on to play ball in the NBA after their careers at B.C., followed. The film begins by showcasing the classic movie Goodfellas and how this story is all wrapped up in the real-life events that inspired the movie. And in that article in Sports Illustrated, Henry Hill says, The word came back that Cobb was enthusiastic. The key phrase there is The word came back. I dont know what Rick Kuhn was telling Henry Hill or the Perla brothers. I didnt think anything of it. Sweeney, who went on a year later to win the Naismith Award as college basketballs top player under six feet tall, says he was initially recruited into the fix by Kuhn without his knowledge and that he never intentionally threw an errant pass, missed a shot or did anything else to alter a game. Rick was born on October 14, 1966, in Jamestown, ND, to Timothy Kuhn and Marretta (Deede) Kuhn. After the four-week trial in 1981, Jimmy Burke was sentenced to 20 years in prison, while Paul Mazzei and Tony Perla were sentenced to ten. He graduated on time with a degree in sociology. 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. And that kept him in Hills clutches. I felt like, You put my name out there, so let me clear my name! When they investigated me, I told them straight up about the $1,000 that Rocco Perla had given me. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court hears Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools to rule on financial compensation for a deaf student who was not provided proper learning support. Boston College Accused of Point Shaving, was the big headline on the UPI wire. I was reading about the Boston College point-shaving scandal of the late 70s and I was wondering whatever became of Rick Kuhn in his later life. 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. He turned to me and said, Coach, Im glad youre sticking up for your kid. 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. . Rocco Perla and Kuhn were high-school classmates. 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. I was focused in the moment. 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. Can anyone shed some I was this poor kid with no financial resources, going on trial with a member of the mob. She helped tutor me, and encouraged me through some rough spots. Mizzou understands that Hill was doing what he had to do to survive. Fake cannabis billionaire pleads guilty to securities fraud. The Nets coaches were telling me, Coach, hes gonna be a great pro., I had a great camp with the Nets and was poised to make the team, said Cobb. Mandan, ND 58554 opens in a new window call Rick Kuhn at (701) 663-6385 call Rick Kuhn at Call Me Email Me. In practice, he was the lunatic who his teammates sucked their teeth and rolled their eyes at when he told the coaches that they needed to run more sprints after an exhausting practice. You may opt-out by. The next step in the saga is how these players get connected to the mob. The Boys of Dunbar, A Story of Love, Hope and Basketball. I was nervous because I didnt know what was going to happen. "Boston College's tradition in athletics rests upon the accomplishments of many thousands of men and women. Bruce Pearl, a normal student in the class of 1982, is introduced and talks about the smart, diverse basketball players. SELECT OPTIONS SAVE TO CART DETAILS Restrictions: No commercial uses without permission. The scheme was hit or miss early on. 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. Holy Cross wins by two causing the mobsters to lose hundreds of thousands. At that point, I was looking forward to a trial, said Cobb. 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. Perla and Kuhn had gone to high school together and were good friends. But what was I going to do, take it to court?It was here that they began telling Perla we would have to have Cobb. Kuhn, 28, was one of five people found guilty of conspiracy to engage in racketeering and other charges that stemmed from a point-shaving scheme hatched for the 1978-79 school season. Ernie Cobb is also introduced, a senior, team captain, and Boston Colleges top scorer. After Cobb was not charged, he thought he was finally past the sordid affair. I continue to feel like I have to defend myself, all these years later, even after the government tried their case against me and I was found innocent. While Jim Sweeney is also introduced, hes the other captain from a better upbringing: the poster child for BC. So, in very basic terms, if B.C. [3] Kuhn was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment,[4] later reduced to 28 months. The 80-minute documentary tells how BC forward Rick Kuhn conspired with two of his hoodlum friends from Pittsburgh to bet against the Eagles. now all well past their primes after serving their time, including the gangster Ray Seven schools and more than 30 players were implicated in the 1951 probe; more than 20 schools were involved in the 1961 incidents. Even though he was not guilty, Boston College has erased them from their memory. 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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. 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. I was relishing that moment. 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. Twice, in 1951 and 1961, the sport was rocked by scandal. But I dont feel any bitterness toward the prosecution. It creates suspense as Hill is a mess on the stand and can barely speak under the pressure of snitching on his friends. Enraged by their gambling loss, the Perla brothers, along with Mazzei, Burke, and Hill, decided to recruit additional Eagles players to enhance their control over the outcome of the games. Everybody testified against him. All of Henry Hills and the Perla brothers information was coming from Rick Kuhn, and who knows what he was saying to them to cover his own skin., (Jim Sweeney, Photo Credit: tampabay.com), Kuhn and Sweeney got in over their heads, Cobb continued. Other times, they didnt deliver as promised, which caused some very dangerous and ill-tempered men to lose large sums of cash. The distinguished paper later retracted the story. 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! And after they put my name out there, and after I admitted to taking that $1,000, they didnt have enough evidence to prosecute me. The narrator explains that the strength of how Henry Hills testimony is would determine if Burke was going to be convicted. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. Rocco has a vague conversation with Cobb over winning certain games, but both sides wont admit to knowing the extent to which he was involved. The conspiracy unraveled in 1980 after Hill was arrested by New York State authorities on drug trafficking charges and was subsequently implicated in the Lufthansa heist, which occurred while the point-shaving scheme was underway. 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. They were just doing their jobs. Hill and Tony Perla claim that they were all doing cocaine and Kuhn and Sweeney begin marking games that they are favored in and talking about all the money they will make. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Netflix wants to hire a flight attendant for one of its private jets, and says pay can reach $385,000, according to a job listing on the streaming service's website. Mazzeis connection to Kuhn was through fellow gangsters Rocco and Tony Pearla. The problem was Cobb. As he walked across the scenic campus, marveled at the schools architectural splendor or ate until his hearts content in the dining hall, hed often pause to quietly give thanks for his fortunate circumstances. But for many, there is a fierce bitterness that still lingers to this day. Burkes gang had just successfully pulled off the Lufthansa airport heist at New Yorks JFK airport, where theyd stolen an estimated $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewels, the largest cash robbery in America at the time. The Providence game was played on December 6, 1978, and Boston College was favored to win by six to seven points. Kuhn was thus expected to keep the score below the six- to seven-point margin. The test run for the scheme proved unsuccessful when Boston College's team established an early lead and ultimately won the game by nineteen points. 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. Thus, for example, if participating bookmakers determined Boston College to be an eight-point favorite in a particular game, Kuhn would be paid a bonus, usually $2,500, if they won by less than eight points. Whats striking about the point shaving scandal from the perspective of 35 years is how different, i.e. 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. Cobb, for his part, was tried for conspiracy and acquitted. Kuhn tells Sweeney that the mobsters in New York and Pittsburgh want this win and that this will be the last fix. It was one of the most tremendous feelings Id ever experienced.. He hugged his tearful mother before walking out into the hallway for a few moments. There were a lot of rich kids who went to Boston College. 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. They couldnt stop him. "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. Same here, and yet when they did their list of greatest sports scandals a few weeks back (when Miami broke) they didn't have it on there the first day. Still, he feels lucky. The syndicate was very happy with this result, and Kuhn was given cash to distribute to the players for their efforts. 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. Jim Sweeney is a happy guy. They kept saying that they liked the idea of just shaving points and not blowing the games." Jim Sweeney was not charged. 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. In addition, they were given the opportunity to bet the money they were paid and double their winnings. I cooperated willingly, and Im glad I did, Sweeney says. It would fit with ESPN, which reports sports but also has an underlying self-deprecating humor, is basically his pitch. I called my buddy Frank Melzer, who was an attorney, said Alswanger. Barbara Reed, 25, Kuhn's former girlfriend who was living with him at the time, testified that Kuhn uncharacteristically began buying her presents -- a stereo set, a television set and jewelry -- during the winter of 1978-79. 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. But for Bowie, it was too little, too late. His testimony essentially corroborated that of Hill, who went into witness protection. He made other African-American ballers feel like they could go there and really showcase what they could do on a national level. Rick Kuhn, 55, passed away peacefully on September 12, 2022, in his home in West Fargo, ND, surrounded by his family. 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. Visser became the NFLs first female beat writer in 1976, when she was assigned by the paper to cover the New England Patriots. Hill revealed his involvement in the point-shaving scheme, offering to relate the full story if federal officials would guarantee him full immunity and would agree to intercede on his behalf to convince state officials to drop the drug charges pending in state court. Rick Kuhn during Boston College men's basketball's 1977-1978 season. U.S. District Judge Henry Bramwell set sentencing for Jan. 8. Sports. No source was given for this claim, with Streater's last appearance for the team occurring in the 197778 season, but this claim remained for more than five years, resulting in a number of media sites including Bleacher Report, ESPN and Yahoo News erroneously naming him as a point-shaver.[5]. Burke was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment. 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. For added effect, ESPN landed Liotta, whose character served as a narrator in Goodfellas, to narrate its film. The government also contended Kuhn tried to recruit other players, including the team's leading scorer, Ernie Cobb, and Hill said in an article in Sports Illustrated -- for which he was paid $10,000 -- that he made payments to Cobb for his cooperation. Was young and I bought a New stereo, television and some furniture that Hill doing. 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