Inside the story: How Bishop Sycamore conned ESPN

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Andy & Ari discuss their deeply reported story about Bishop Sycamore, the high school football team that conned ESPN into putting them on TV to play IMG Academy. Fake recruits, not enough players, two games in three days and a broadcast team that called for the game to be stopped in the 3rd quarter. This almost unbelievable story has it all.

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0:52.9	It is the first week of college football, and we have a ton of college football content to give you.
0:59.7	We're going to break down games.
1:01.4	We're going to pick games.
1:02.6	All of that stuff is coming later this week.
1:05.2	We've got a very special bonus episode coming up.
1:08.8	But right now, we have got to talk about a story that Ari Wasserman and I wrote together
1:15.1	because it was the only thing anybody could talk about on football Twitter after Sunday.
1:22.1	And Ari, you watched this game.
1:26.5	This would be IMG Academy versus Bishop Sycamore.
1:31.9	Now, I'm not Catholic.
1:33.5	You're not Catholic.
1:35.1	Those who are Catholic tell me that there's no Bishop Sycamore anywhere in the...
1:39.8	In the good book?
1:41.7	In all the annals of...
1:42.9	Yeah.
1:43.1	So, but Bishop Sycamore, the initials, RBS.
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