Kevin Hart and his Big Lie
August 14th, 2010
The Boy Who Cried Cal: Last year, I caught a short item on the news about a high school football player in Nevada who claimed to have been recruited by a big college football program. Problem was…he hadn’t been. I remember thinking, “How do you get caught up in a lie that big?”
Pretty easily, it turns out.
By January 2008, with national signing day only a month away, Kevin had to decide whether to finally to tell the truth. He says he’d lay in bed "just about every night," playing out scenarios, and he came to an absolutely ludicrous decision: hold a news conference.
And he did hold the conference, complete with local TV stations, a pep rally, and his dramatic decision of which collegiate ballcap to put on before the flash bulbs when off.
This is a long article that details the strange story of Kevin Hart, who carried this charade all the way to its bitter, embarrassing conclusion. It’s a story of bravado, a runaway lie, getting backed into a corner, then taking a long road to partial redemption.