I had my own place to live and all the food I wanted to eat. The headlines in Boston, and around the country, said that Cobb and fellow senior Michael Bowie, the teams two African-American stars, were the players that were implicated. I thought he might have been a student, because he was young and I saw him hanging around Rick Kuhn all the time. They knew how to shave, because when I tried to explain to them, they said, Naw, we know all that shit.. Ernie Cobb played professional basketball in Israel for 17 years, where he learned to speak fluent Hebrew. Edward McDonald was a Federal Prosecutor who interrogated Hill in May 1980. Out of everything that happened, thats one thing that hurts me tremendously, Cobb said. If there was a poster of what a student athlete at Boston College is supposed to look like, it was Jim Sweeney.. In the movie, Liotta played Hill and DeNiro played Jimmy Conway, whose character was based off Hills real-life mob associate Jimmy Burke. After perhaps his greatest moment during the preseason, when he had that outstanding game against the Celtics right before the regular season tipped off, Cobb was relaxing in his hotel room when he heard a knock at the door. The 80-minute documentary tells how BC forward Rick Kuhn conspired with two of his hoodlum friends from Pittsburgh to bet against the Eagles. Hill and Burke were brought into the scheme, after receiving approval from Lucchese family capo Paul Vario. When I got back and told Jimmy and Paulie about the scheme, they loved it, Hill recalled in Wiseguy. Former Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn, convicted on - UPI Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. It would also increase the likelihood of scandals like the BC one, they say. Mazzei, Hill and the Perlas devised a plan to rip off bookies without having players throw games. College basketball's 30 biggest cheaters that tainted the game Using Kuhn for an introduction, the men also lured in point guard Jim Sweeney. The court papers said Kuhn of Swissvale, Pa., has agreed to testify against former teammate Ernie Cobb, 27, a basketball player from Stamford, Conn. Cobb has pleaded innocent to a charge of conspiring to commit sports bribery,a charge stemming from the point-shaving scandal.
