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What: “Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie”

Where: FX, Sunday, 8 p.m.

There have been some bad made-for-TV sports movies recently. ESPN’s “Season on the Brink” was pretty much universally panned. TNT’s “Monday Night Mayhem” missed the mark. But this movie about the point-shaving scandal involving two players on the 1994 Arizona State basketball team is very good.

Although the message it delivers is poignant and serious, “Big Shot” has its light moments and is overall very entertaining.

David Krumholtz is excellent as Benny Silman, the central figure in the scandal.

Ernest Dickerson directed this movie as well as “Monday Night Mayhem.” Here he has the benefit of a better cast, although the job John Turtorro did playing Howard Cosell and brother Nick Turtorro did as Chet Forte almost saved “Monday Night Mayhem.” Nick Turtorro is in “Big Shot” and is very believable as Joe Jr., the gambler who led Silman astray.

Tory Kittles as Stevin “Hedake” Smith, Jennifer Morrison as Silman’s girlfriend Callie, Keith Joseph Lineker as bad guy “Big Red” and Alex Rocco as big-time gambler Domonic all fit their roles very well.