1. Why did Tony Perla ask Rocco to talk to the players about the Fordham game?
A: To make sure the plan was set in stone because they had bee burned before.

2. How was B.C's point shaving scheme brought to light?
A: The FBI Agent was a former B.C basketball player and took it very seriously

3. Who and what games did Cobb give info to the investegators about?
A: Rocco Perla, Kuhn's Gift, Harvard Game, Stonehill Game

1) "Sport elaborates in its rituals with what it means to be human: the play, the risk, the trials, the collective impulse to games, the thrill of physicality, the necessity of strategy; defeat, victory, defeat again, pain, transendence and, most of all, the certainty that nothing is certain - that everything can change, and be changed."
- This statement instantly stood out to me. I have never looked at sports with that perspective before, it makes a whole lot of sence.

Chapter 3
*Introduction: recognizing the common tricks of deception
*Trick #1 Misnomers
a) Misleading names and phrases
b) Ex. President Clinton's 94' ban on assault weapons only banned “semiautomatic” weapons, as opposed to the fully automatic weapons that had been banned since 1934.
c) look behind the name
*Trick #2 Frame it and claim it
a) allowing the name to appeal to the masses to help persuade them to their side, an intentional misnomer to grasp attention.
*Trick #3 Weasel Words
a) Sucking the meaning out of a phrase or sentence i.e. “Up to 50% off”

In todays world nothing is really what it says it is. I dont even know what size pants i am because the sizes are different for every different brand. They use the example of the coffee sizes at starbucks. There are no larges and they call their smallest size a "tall." The deception is very simple and small and many of us dont even think twice about it. Sometimes we notice when the what we think is a small looks really extreme but other than that we look at what we get instead what we call it. Like the book talks about also, we pay attention to picture much more than we do words.

At what point in the history of the United States did the corruption begin and in what ways? Of course there is the industrial revolution that completely changed the course of direction for the agricultural community, but there is also the deception in politics and everyday products such as Listerine and Snake Oil. In the book Un-Spun: Finding facts in a World of Disinformation the authors Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, talk about all the ways to avoid the scams that our world has put out there to get the best of you.

Politics are definitely something that I could use some serious informing on. I always have gotten the great bias beliefs that my parents drilled into my head but now that I am an adult and am also a free thinker, I notice my views and beliefs change. The only problem now is that I have no idea what’s real and what isn’t in the political world. So, as I started to read this book and figure out what it was all about, my attention was narrowed and I was becoming interested in what the authors had to say.

Un’Spun Chapter 1 Summary Kelly Koelle

Dennis Ellsworth

Chapter 6: The Great Crow Fallacy
-An anecdote is an interesting story that future research might settle.
-One or two interesting stories don't prove anything.
-A study supported by data has much more credibility than a random observation.
-Our own experiences can mislead us.
-What you don't know or haven't been told is sometimes more important than what we actually see.
-Real evidence comes from systematic study.
-Estimates are formed on basic assumptions; they shouldn't be considered solid data.
-Studies and data aren't as reliable from a self-interested source.

Dennis Ellsworth

Chapter 5: Facts Can Save Your Life
- We find something appealing and fail to look for evidence to the contrary.
-Whether we are decieved by somebody else or we failed to check our own assumptions, the price for getting the facts wrong is the same.
-Most bad information will cost you money.
-Higher prices make us believe higher quality, which isn't always the case.
-Price has very little to do with quality; cheaper products are better about half the time
-Getting facts wrong can put you in the hospital.
-Misinformation about our bodies and health lethal.

Amanda Spargo
English 101
Bleck
Due: May 12, 2008
Green Peace