Instruct: Classify a given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Hoops gone amuck

This is the story of the largely forgotten but enormously significant series of events that almost destroyed college basketball as a major sport in America. In the early 1950s, a host of college basketball players who had fixed the outcome of college games by shaving points in order to beat the point spread and the gamblers who induced them to participate in the scheme were arrested. The resulting scandal revealed that numerous college games had not been on the up and up. Fewer things can destroy a sport faster than dishonest results.In this excellent, highly readable book, noted basketball historian and novelist, Charley Rosen, explains how the fixers got to the players, why the players went along and sold out the game they loved and what the results were for college basketball. For my money, Rosen's cautionary tale is a great place to start for anyone interested in the history of modern college basketball.