Jack Laub

He lived with his parents and five brothers in a flat above Laub's, a kosher restaurant his family opened after immigrating to the U.S. from Poland to escape persecution.

[1] He attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, New York, where he played on the varsity basketball team and graduated with honors in 1943.

[2] Upon graduating from City College in 1944, Laub served in the Merchant Marine during World War II, where he was commissioned as Ensign Officer in Maritime Service, and was later discharged as a Lieutenant of Senior Grade.

The scandal primarily centered on players at City College of New York who accepted bribes to fix games by preventing their teams from covering a point spread.

[7] In January 1952, as the point-shaving scandal was spreading to other schools in New York and the Midwest, sports promoter Sam D. Feinberg was accused of attempting, unsuccessfully, to bribe Laub and Alvin Rubenstein, another University of Cincinnati player, to throw games during the 1948–1949 and 1949–1950 seasons.

[6] He is credited with recommending the team give a scholarship to NBA Hall of Fame player Jack Twyman and the recruitment of Oscar Robertson.

In May 2010, the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Cincinnati honored Laub with the Distinguished Alumni Award for his contribution to the reduction of prescription drug costs for consumers, hospitals and insurance companies in the US.

[5] In May 2010, the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Cincinnati honored Laub with the Distinguished Alumni Award for his contribution to the reduction of prescription drug costs for consumers, hospitals and insurance companies in the US.

[2] In 2012, Laub funded a scholarship to the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine for medical students interested in breast cancer research.