No Grey Areas
The Inside Story of the Largest Point Shaving Scandal in History and the Consequences Thereafter
by Joseph N. Gagliano
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Pub Date Jan 14 2016 | Archive Date Mar 09 2016
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Involving dozens of casinos, bookmakers throughout the East coast and Midwest, and millions of dollars bet and won, Gagliano conspired to have two NCAA basketball players shave points and fix the final scores. He and his fellow gamblers were able to beat the projected point spread and outsmart the sports betting world but eventually, the FBI came knocking on his door.
In No Grey Areas, Gagliano outlines the greed, corruption, money, and the dark side of business in the sports gambling world, revealing why there’s no such thing as easy money.
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Joseph N. Gagliano coordinated the ASU basketball point-shaving scandal at the age of 24. Still one of the largest scams in sports history, he was indicted and sent to federal prison. As a creative and driven entrepreneur, Gagliano created a number of legitimate and highly successful businesses upon his release. However, the financial collapse of 2008 led the government to question a banking deal, landing him in jail for a second term. Now labeled a 2-time felon, Gagliano is telling his story—filled with the scandals inner details, greed, corruption, love, and freedom gained and lost.
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Edwin H, Reviewer
NO GREY AREAS by Joseph N Gagliano is the memoir of the man who was an integral part of the point shaving scandal at ASU in 1994. Gagliano recounts that event and everything that led up to it as well as the aftermath and how his life has forever been changed because of it.
Gagliano discusses how he made many questionable, unethical choices early in life, and how his younger self try to rationalize those choices as ok because they didn't directly hurt anyone, physically or financially. He felt he was more just skimming off the top of the financial system. That line of thinking led the infamous point shaving/rigging of 4 ASU basketball games in 1994. The regret of that choice oozes through his entire recounting of it. He then leads us through the rest of his life, where Gagliano seems to have lived a good, albeit tumultuous, life up until recently when he got into trouble with the law once again.
Being a sports fan, I was enticed to read about the 1994 incident from one of the key members of the scheme. I enjoyed reading about it and I felt like Gagliano wrote from an honest place, where he took plenty of blame along with the other conspirators. Gagliano seems to be a driven person who is always looking for another way to make money. Later in the book, when he is talking about what he has done with the rest of his life, I did have moments where I had a hard time feeling sympathy for him. He several times paints a picture of destitution, only to then say that he was able to "get by" by selling a property or business to get a extra hundred thousand or so. While I believe emotionally and mentally he has struggled with his inner demons, I just felt a little disconnected to Gaglaino as a person I could relate to.
It's a good sports memoir that stumbles a little later in the book, but I feel like someone who likes reading about sports history will enjoy NO GREY AREAS.
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