Editing Point shaving (section)

== In popular culture ==
In the television series ''[[The Sopranos]]'', the character [[Carmine Lupertazzi Sr.]] was reputed to have invented the concept of point shaving in 1951.

Point shaving is an underlying plot thread in the 1974 film ''[[The Longest Yard (1974 film)|The Longest Yard]]'' and [[The Longest Yard (2005 film)|the 2005 remake]]. In both films, the character Paul "Wrecking" Crewe, a former professional quarterback, was kicked out of the [[NFL]] for point shaving prior to the events of the films.

In ''[[One Tree Hill (TV series)|One Tree Hill]]'', [[Nathan Scott]], the star basketball player of Tree Hill High, colludes with a gambler to shave points during the North Carolina high school state semi-finals. This eventually leads to him losing a scholarship to [[Duke University]] and temporarily derailing his college prospects. He bounces back from the scandal to play at a junior college, leading to a scholarship to the University of Maryland and a career in the NBA.