There's a lot going on right now.

Mounting economic inequality, threats to democracy, environmental disaster, the sour stench of chaos in the air.

I'm Brooke Gladstone, host of WNYC's On the Media.

Want to understand the reasons and the meanings of the narratives that led us here and maybe how to head them off at the

pass? That's on the media's specialty. Take a listen wherever you get your podcasts.

When we think of sports stories, we tend to think of tales of epic on the field glory

or incredible against all odds comeback stories. But what about the moments that don't make the front page?

Well, on the new podcast, Sports Explains the World, you'll hear some of the wildest,

most surprising sports stories you've never heard, like the teenager who wrote a fake Wikipedia

page for a young athlete and then watched as a real team fell for the prank.

As a kid, Kieran Morris loved pulling pranks to fool the press.

Then when England played Honduras in a friendly soccer match,

he found a young player on the Honduran side and inflated his stats on Wikipedia

to equal those of a young Messi and Ronaldo.

Stats no one should have believed.

But when a real Major League team bids $1 million on the player,

Kieran starts to wonder how harmless this fun really was.

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So here goes.

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