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In organized sports, point shaving is a type of match fixing where the perpetrators try to change the final score of a game without changing who wins. This is typically done by players colluding with gamblers to prevent a team from covering a published point spread, where gamblers bet on the margin of victory. The practice of shaving points is illegal in some countries, and stiff penalties are imposed for those caught and convicted, including jail time.
A point-shaving scheme generally involves a sports gambler and one or more players of the team favored to win the game. In exchange for a bribe, the player or players agree to ensure that their team will not "cover the point spread" (the bribed player's team may still win but not by as big a margin as that predicted by bookmakers). The gambler then wagers against the bribed team. Alternatively, players on the team picked to lose may be bribed to lose by more points than the indicated point spread, and gamblers will wager on their opponents, the favorites, to cover the spread. Also, an official (referee) of the game may be bribed, or even bet on his own behalf, so that one or more "close calls" will be called in favor of the "underdog" rather than the team favored to win.
In organized sports, pointshaving is a type of match fixing where the perpetrators try to change the final score of a game without changing who wins...
made by the commissioner. If the incident is serious enough, such as pointshaving or substance abuse, players can be permanently banned from playing,...
freshman year at Iowa, he was a victim of the hysteria surrounding a point-shaving scandal that had started in New York City. Hawkins' name surfaced in...
Kentucky employees. Rupp was the head coach at Kentucky during the pointshaving scandal of 1951. On October 20, 1951, former Kentucky players Alex Groza...
for life from the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1951 for pointshaving during his college career at the University of Kentucky. Barnstable...
basketball player and a key figure in one of the most wide-reaching pointshaving scandals in college basketball. Molinas grew up in Brooklyn and attended...
two Pittsburgh gamblers set up the 1978–79 Boston College basketball point-shaving scheme by convincing Boston College center Rick Kuhn to participate...
dropped down to the NCAA College Division in the 1963–64 season. The CCNY pointshaving scandal of 1950–51 had hit the program hard, and they had 12 sub-par...
Head shaving is a form of body modification which involves shaving the hair from a person's head. People throughout history have shaved all or part of...
player, who is also known for his involvement in the 1994 Arizona State point-shaving scandal. Smith was born in Dallas, Texas, the only son of Eunice Smith...
Tournament (NIT) in the same year. He was also a central figure in the pointshaving scandal that came to light in the aftermath of that season. Roman, a...
affecting the integrity of sports events through various acts including pointshaving (players affecting the score by missing shots), spot-fixing (a player...
Judaism prohibits shaving with a razor on the basis of a rabbinic interpretation of Leviticus 19:27, which states, "Ye shall not round the corners of...
Association prior to being barred for life for his participation in the 1951 pointshaving scandal. Beard was born in Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Beard grew up in Louisville...
exposing corruption in men's college basketball, primarily the CCNY PointShaving Scandal. Kase was born in July 1897. His German-speaking parents, Solomon...
27, 2015. "University of Toledo football player charged in point-shaving scheme". "Ex-Rocket admits to pointshaving". USA Today summary ESPN summary...
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