Scoreboard, Baby

by Armstrong, Ken

• ISBN13: 9780803228108
• ISBN10: 0803228104
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Bison Books

Summary

The adjectives associated with the University of Washington's 2000 football season-mystical, magical, miraculous-changed when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry's four-part expos of the 2000 Huskies hit the newspaper stand: explosive chilling (Sports Illustrated), blistering (Baltimore Sun), shocking appalling(Tacoma News Tribune), astounding(ESPN), jaw-dropping (Orlando Sentinel).

Author Biography

Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry are reporters for the Seattle Times. Their investigative work on the 2000 Huskies won two of journalism’s highest honors: the George Polk Award and the Michael Kelly Award, recognizing “the fearless pursuit and expression of truth.” Armstrong is a three-time winner of the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. In 2009 he received the prestigious John Chancellor Award for lifetime achievement. Perry has won national journalism awards in both New Zealand, his homeland, and the United States, where he has specialized in covering higher education.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Cast of Characters	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Prologue: Hush-Hush	p. 1
Freeze	p. 7
Marie	p. 17
Fragments	p. 20
Stirrings	p. 29
Louisville Slugger	p. 41
Nothing but Ashes	p. 58
Face-off	p. 64
Taking the Field	p. 77
Happily Ever After	p. 83
The Twelfth Man	p. 102
In Hiding	p. 109
Taking a Pass	p. 112
Narrowly Honest	p. 122
Scoreboard, Baby	p. 140
Carving Their Names	p. 151
Body and Soul	p. 165
Up, Down, In, Out	p. 172
Taking a Shot	p. 185
A Week in the Life	p. 187
Love, Love, Love	p. 196
I Can't Breathe	p. 207
Story Lines	p. 217
California Fun	p. 228
A Mystical, Magical Day	p. 245
Climbing the Hill	p. 260
Always Hated, Never Faded	p. 272
Ripples	p. 287
When the Game's Over	p. 293
Epilogue: All about the Wins	p. 311
Notes	p. 323
Index	p. 367
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