October 15, 2010
The University of Washington’s march to the 2001 Rose Bowl answered one of sport’s most enduring questions: If winning is everything, what are we left with? Scoreboard, Baby exposes the rot beneath a celebrated season —and the ruins left behind, showing how a community’s blind embrace of a football team compromised judges, prosecutors, police agencies, a proud university and the media. “I finished it at once enfuriated and enlightened. Armstrong and Perry have found the unfortunate universal truths of big-time college football in the particular story of the Washington Huskies,” says David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi. Co-author and Seattle Times reporter Ken Armstrong will discuss the book Sunday, November 7 at Eagle Harbor Book Co.