Listen Now: Sports Explains the World
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
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 | Hey everyone, Anders here. |
| 0:01.7 | I wanted to tell you about a new sports podcast called Sports Explains the World. |
| 0:05.9 | It's a series that tells some pretty surprising sports stories, the kind you definitely |
| 0:09.7 | won't find on the front page of the sports section. |
| 0:12.4 | Like the story of a teenager who loved pranks, and who years ago decided to go on Wikipedia |
| 0:17.7 | and inflate the stats of a young pro soccer player that he'd seen on TV. |
| 0:22.4 | Like inflate his stats to an almost ridiculous degree. |
| 0:25.7 | And then this teenage prankster, Kieran Morris, watched as that very same player was purchased |
| 0:30.7 | by a major league soccer team for a million dollars. |
| 0:33.8 | And Kieran began to wonder, was he responsible? |
| 0:36.6 | Had his silly little prank had real life consequences? |
| 0:39.7 | You can hear the rest of the episode and other stories from sports explains the world on |
| 0:43.8 | the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:46.4 | And you can listen early and add free, just sports explains the world on Wondery Plus, |
| 0:50.5 | which you can join in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:53.2 | All right, here is a clip from the story. |
| 1:04.6 | So here goes. |
| 1:07.2 | When I was 13, me and my best friend got really into prank calls. |
| 1:11.1 | We were obsessed with this comedian, a guy called Chris Morris. |
| 1:14.9 | We cleared through his TV shows, then hunted down his radio calls. |
| 1:18.8 | We even joined his fan forum. |
| 1:20.4 | The veterinary surgery? |
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