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🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Sports Explains the World unveils some of the wildest and most surprising sports stories you’ve never heard - And they’re all true. From the teenager who wrote a Wikipedia page that got a young athlete signed to a million-dollar deal - to the Ugandan National basketball coach who was really an undercover agent for the CIA, these stories will amaze and move you at every turn. Reported by award-winning journalists across the globe, Sports Explains the World reveals the human side of athletics in provocative and unexpected ways. You’ll never view sports the same way again.
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0:00.0 | When we think of sports stories, we tend to think of tales of epic on the field glory |
0:05.0 | or incredible against all odds, come back stories, but what about the moments that don't make |
0:11.4 | the front page? |
0:12.4 | Well, on the new podcast, sports explains the world. |
0:16.1 | You'll hear some of the wildest and most surprising sports stories you've never heard. |
0:20.8 | Like the teenager who wrote a fake Wikipedia page for a young athlete and then watched as |
0:25.3 | a real team fell for his prank. |
0:27.7 | As a kid, Kieran Morris loved pulling pranks to fool the press. |
0:30.9 | Then, when England played Honduras in a friendly soccer match, he found a young player on the |
0:35.3 | Honduran side and inflated his stats on Wikipedia to equal those of a young messy and runaldo. |
0:42.0 | Stats, no one should have believed. |
0:44.4 | But when a real major league team bids $1 million on the player, Kieran starts to wonder |
0:49.9 | how harmless his fun really was. |
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1:09.0 | So here goes. |
1:18.0 | When I was 13, me and my best friend called Really into prank calls, we were obsessed |
1:25.2 | with this comedian, a guy called Chris Morris. |
1:28.5 | We cleared through his TV shows, then hunted down his radio calls. |
1:32.4 | We even joined his fan forum. |
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