Crooked Zebra

Crooked Zebra is a 2004 novel by former

University of Texas college basketball coach Bob Weltlich

Plot

Jim Stanton, the narrator, tells the tale of Bob Girard, a former college basketball player who now runs a popular basketball camp for children in South Florida.

Chad Payne, an eleven-year-old basketball phenom, sneaks into the camp. Girard rescues Chad from a broken home and encourages him. Eventually, Chad grows up, becomes a star and signs with Duke University. Meanwhile, Girard becomes a college basketball referee with troubled finances.

Bob begins to make extra money by fixing games, he becomes so good at it, and so greedy, that he, with support from the mafia, attempts to fix the national championship game.

Reviews

Bob Knight, former head basketball coach at Texas Tech University and Indiana University, calls Crooked Zebra “Entertaining, exciting and an easy read. This story may be closer to the truth than many people would like to believe... An insightful novel that examines the susceptibility of college basketball to the whims of gamblers...".^[1]
Crooked Zebra has been featured in
Memphis Commercial Appeal and several other newspapers.^[2]

Notes

^ Official book launch press release Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine
^ South Alabama review^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

Crooked Zebra Official Site Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
USA Today review

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[1] Official book launch press release Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine

[2] South Alabama review^{[permanent dead link]}

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