Title: Out Of Bounds
Published By: Harper Collins
Released: June 15th, 2004
Length: 272 Pages
Out of Bounds: Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence, and Crime is a searing indictment of professional basketball players who live in a world where criminal laws and social norms don't exist, a world where they are given license to act above the law.
On the court, they dazzle us with their spectacular physical feats. They generate millions of dollars of revenue for the NBA and their teams. They inspire adulation. But underneath all the glitz, the money, and alley-oops is a seamy underbelly, a rash of lawlessness that is gripping the NBA.
Title: Public Heros Private Fellons: Athletes And Crimes Against Women
Published By: Northeastern University Press
Released: October 1997
Length: 224 Pages
While arrests of celebrated college and professional athletes for crimes
against women escalate at an alarming rate, popular sports figures routinely
escape accountablility for their offenses. Shielded by a lucrative sports industry
that fosters the athlete's positive image as role model to the nation's youth, few players are successfully prosecuted
in the courts and they rarely face sanctions on their eligibility to play.
Jeff Benedict thoroughly investigates ffor the first time athletes' abusive
behavior, delving into the full spectrum of complex factors that give rise to
and perpetuate the disturbing pattern of frequent sexual and domestic
violence toward women. And, opposing the public stance of sports organizations, he offers
compelling evidence that male athletes commit more crimes against women than do their peers.
Title: Without Reservation
Published By: Perennial Press
Released: July 3, 2001
Length: 426 Pages
For thousands of years the Mashantucket Pequot lived in southeastern Connecticut between the Thames
and the Pawcatuck rivers. Then in 1636, their fortunes began to plummet. The anti-Pequot war that
began that year was only one of the causes of the nation's eventual near-extinction: Poverty, disaster,
and real estate plunder forced the tribe to recede into a remote 214-acre vestige of a reservation. In
the 1970s, just as the Mashantucket Pequot seemed to be dissolving into irrecoverable history, their
fortunes changed as quickly as the spin of a roulette wheel. Without Reservation chronicles how a dwindling
group of Indians became the proprietors of Foxwoods, the world's largest gambling arena.
Title: No Bone Unturned
Published By: Harper Collins
Released: March 25, 2003
Length: 320 Pages
Dr. Douglas Owsley, curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and forensic scientist "reads bones like most people read books." He also gains as much knowledge from them. In No Bone Unturned: The Adventures of the Smithsonian's Top Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons, Jeff Benedict presents a double story: a sensitive portrait of this extraordinary scientist and a thorough reporting of the landmark 1996 lawsuit, Robson Bonnichsen et al v. U.S. et al. Benedict admits that his initial plan was to focus on the lawsuit, in which a group of scientists sued the federal government for the right to study the remains of 9,600 year-old Kennewick Man--the oldest complete human skeleton to be found in America and claimed by the Umatilla Native American tribe for reburial, but shifted his focus after hearing about Owsley. The result is a fascinating account of how one man's commitment to science and knowledge could help rewrite North American human history.
Title: Pros and Cons: Criminals Who Play In The NFL
Published By: Time Warner Books
Released: October 1999
Length: 414 Pages
They're America's heroes. They drive the most expensive cars. They live
in the biggest homes. Darlings of television sports and role models
to millions of kids everywhere, National Football League players have
come to personify the American dream. But there's a dark side to this
hero worship, a seamy element that's rarely addressed by the league
itself or the public.
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