Gangland : This Unsporting Life / James Morton & Susanna Lobez
- Bib ID:
- 8169171
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Morton, James, 1938-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Carlton, Victoria : Victory Books, 2019
- ©2019
- 1 online resource.
- ISBN:
- 9780522874815
- Summary:
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Sport has always attracted organised crime. Huge sums of money are wagered in every arena, and rorts, swindles and unsporting behaviour have shadowed players of all codes. Cricket and footy are not immune, with Heath Shaw and Ben Cousins caught up in gambling and drugs, and NRL star Ryan Tandy in match-fixing. Drugs play a major part on and off the fields of play (looking at you, Essendon Football Club and Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks) with horses and greyhounds also routinely doped. James Morton and Susanna Lobez investigate the cheating underbelly of sport, from the first cricket pitch invasion in the 1890s through to the contemporary scandals that will leave you wondering if there is such a thing as a sporting chance.
- Full contents:
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- It's just not cricket
- On and off the field
- The peds
- On ya bike!
- Ringers
- Jiggery-pokery
- Nobblers
- They shoot horses, don't they?
- The hoops
- When rogues go racing
- Cooking the bookies
- Fur, feathers and skin in the game
- Scullduggery
- Gone to the dogs
- In the ring and on the mat
- After the game is over
- Two-up, the national game
- And the future?
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 14, 2019)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lobez, Susanna, author
- Also Titled:
- This unsporting life
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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