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...sports, including three who reportedly bet against their own team; two Arizona State players were convicted and sent to prison for shaving points; two former Northwestern University basketball players were convicted of rigging games against Penn State, Wisconsin and Michigan, a scam organized by a former Notre Dame place kicker turned bookie; four former Northwestern football players pleaded guilty to perjury charges after lying to grand juries investigating sports betting at the school; and last year the University of Michigan released a study saying that nearly half of the male athletes in the survey acknowledged wagering on college sports...
...center of the scandal was Kevin Pendergast, a former Notre Dame football star who had gained fame in 1992 when he was hurriedly pressed into action during the Sugar Bowl game after the team's place kicker was injured. He kicked one field goal and an extra point at a critical time, helping the Irish to a dramatic 39-28 come-from-behind upset victory over favored Florida. Two years later, he kicked the winning field goal for Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl in a stirring 24-21 victory over Texas A&M. He had arrived at Notre Dame...
...from the Holy Cross 18, he hit sophomore Dan Farley on a three-yard out pattern. Farley fell short of the first down, but he was the third or fourth option and Rose had the presence to try and make something happen, and at least give the field goal kicker a chance...
Harvard, down 27-18 needed two scores anyway at this point. However, sophomore placekicker Anders Blewett, (a most unfortunate name for a kicker), missed the 32-yarder wide left...
...Bush, who has publicized a strikingly similar plan - he jumps on brand-new government "surplus" estimates and announces an ambitious retirement investment plan. According to the Washington Post, the spectacularly expensive savings-investment plan would help participants save up to $2,000 per year, while (here's the kicker) draining government coffers of roughly $200 billion over 10 years. The scheme would provide government grants to families who contribute to individual retirement accounts (at a rate of up to three government dollars to one individual dollar, depending on income level...