Stranger Than Fiction, Vol VI: Sportsball Edition

If there’s one thing that gets people’s blood pumpin’, it’s sports.
All over the world on any given day, you can find people getting
into passionate arguments about whose team has a better chance of
making the playoffs, or the finals, or the World Cup or whatever.
Sometimes there are fisticuffs involved! There are pubs in Scotland
where you’re not allowed to wear your football team colors, for
fear of a brawl breaking out. In my hometown, when our college team
won a big basketball game, people would celebrate by turning over
cars and setting stuff on fire. Parents often treat their
elementary school kids’ Little League games like the fate of the
free world is at stake. My point is, people get INTENSE about this
stuff. And things can get real, real weird. This week, we bring you
two stories that exemplify that weirdness.

Case 1: The Wild Lies of Kevin Hart. Case 2: The Cleveland Ten-Cent
Beer Night Riot.

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Sources:
https://www.espn.com/espn/eticket/story?page=kevinhart&redirected=true
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/7525340/kevin-hart-recruit-lied-california-golden-bears-sign-missouri-western-state

Cleveland Magazine Archives:
https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/terminal/articles/1974-cheap-beers-cause-mayhem

Cleveland Magazine:
https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/sports/articles/10-cent-beer-night-an-oral-history-of-cleveland-baseball's-most-infamous-night

New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5528679/2024/06/03/cleveland-10-cent-beer-night-50-anniversary/

YouTube Channel Kristian Crow, "The Absolute Chaos of Ten Cent Beer
Night" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ZTGtMFVT8

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