As most Northern Nevadans know, Samuel Clemens worked as a newspaperman in Virginia City (Storey County) near Reno (Washoe County). Virginia City could be considered the birthplace of Mark Twain, as it was here in 1863 that writer Samuel Clemens, then a reporter on the local Territorial Enterprise newspaper, first used his famous pen name. Twain reported on the discovery of a petrified man, in the Territorial Enterprise, October 4, 1862, prompting anthropologists to plan expeditions to the Washoe site.
Quoting from Cemen's article, "The body was in a sitting posture, and leaning against a huge mass of croppings; the attitude was pensive, the right thumb resting against the side of the nose; the left thumb partially supported the chin, the fore-finger pressing the inner corner of the left eye and drawing it partly open; the right eye was closed, and the fingers of the right hand spread apart. "
The article created quite a sensation, "Everybody goes to see the stone man, as many as three hundred having visited the hardened creature during the past five or six weeks."
And there were those who made the harsh overland journey only to discover the message offered by the fossilized hands and Clemens' imagination. Hoax is a fine tradition in Northern Nevada.
A confession posted on the Nevada Wolfpack Chat site:
"the real story. I tried to keep this on the premium board, but my guilt has forced me to share it through as many mediums as humanly possible.
"I have to confess. Here is what really happened:
"AW got into an argument with rivals. #1PF and I were pissed because AW was providing excellent coverage for wolfpackchat.com and we didn't know what to say when he told us he was going to stop covering the Pack. We then journeyed to fernley, recruited a kid (brad said he was from oregon and I from Cal). We both offered him, I'm a better recruiter so he picked Cal, thus setting the bait for AW to make the trip to Fernley to cover this "Cal recruit." I then laid tire spikes on I-80 and Brad rented a helicopter. We tapped into the California DMV database to get AW's plates, and Brad flew overhead waiting to give me the signal. When I saw the 50 ft by 50 ft UNLV SUCKS banner drop from the back of the chopper I set the spikes! Apparently AW was speeding because he beat the spikes by about 2 seconds and we flattened the tires of several other cars. Brad rented the chopper for 2 more days and flew to mexico to lay low. I have been hiding in the S&B/WPC chamber, with doors locked and phones unplugged. We sent Sammudio to Fernley to make a final kidnapping attempt on AW, but our story was so believable that Sammudio ended up getting and interview and airing the Cal committment on the news.
It was all part of our plan to create a message board with the intent sole intent of selling Wolf Pack gear to its unsuspecting members and thus take over the world. First we got caught by the people on the RGJ forums with our wolf pack apparel hoax, and now our AW kidnapping and fake recruitment has been uncovered. What next? People will find out the Brad IS DPC and was the guest writer for the RGJ all along??? At least leave us that. Damn, I fear I've said to much already!
Fernley's Kevin Hart, left, and head football coach Mark Hodges during a school assembly on Friday.
WHAT'S NEXT
With no official suspect and not enough information to identify a suspect at this time, there does not appear to be much the Lyon County Sheriff's Department can do at this time.
National Signing Day is today, but Kevin Hart will not be signing a letter of intent with any program.
The Lyon County School District will continue its internal investigation into the matter.
The Lyon County Sheriff's Department acknowledged late Tuesday a third party was allegedly involved in the recruiting gone bad of Fernley offensive lineman Kevin Hart.
Hart claims, in a report taken Saturday by the LCSD, that a Kevin Riley falsely represented himself as a recruiter -- a middle man to big-time college football programs -- and led the 6-foot-5, 290-pounder and his family to believe there were scholarship offers available when there were none.
Obtaining money with a false pretense is the charge on the report at this time, said Deputy Dan Lynch, who took the report. Finding Riley could be difficult, though.
"It's an ongoing investigation but we have no suspect at this point and no info to identify a suspect," Lynch said.
Lynch spent 1 1/2 hours Saturday taking statements from Hart and Fernley coach Mark Hodges at the school, a day after Hart verbally committed to California Berkeley during a momentous school assembly that had Hart's father, Richard, holding back tears.
The purported recruiter coincidentally has the same name as a Cal redshirt freshman quarterback, but the sheriff's department does not know of a connection between the Cal quarterback and the recruiter.
Lynch declined to say how much money the Hart family paid Riley, or how the purported recruiter kept in contact with Hart and Hodges.
Hart said at the announcement ceremony Friday that he talked many times with Cal head coach Jeff Tedford and that "personal experience" led to his decision to choose the Golden Bears over Oregon.
But it appears he and his family were misled by Riley. The RGJ reported on Monday that Hart, a two-star prospect according to rivals.com, was never recruited by either Cal or Oregon.
The NCAA continues to keep an eye on the situation, but may not have any jurisdiction over it.
"Our net covers the prospective athlete and the (universities)," said spokeswoman Stacey Osburn, who said her office has received an abundance of calls on the matter. "A third party wouldn't fall under our rules."
Also Tuesday, the universities once thought to have recruited Hart were cleared of any involvement by the Lyon County School District.
The exculpating of Cal, Oregon, Nevada, Oklahoma State and Washington on the eve of National Signing Day was the only significant piece of information to come out of a statement released by the district, which has been conducting an internal investigation of the circumstances that led Hart to announce he was heading to Cal.
"Although only in a preliminary stage, the district's investigation to date has been unable to verify that Kevin Hart was ever offered an athletic scholarship or letter of intent to play football," read the statement, which was issued by LCSD superintendent Nat Lommori and assistant superintendent Teri White.
The news came less than 24 hours before recruits around the country will sign their letters of intent, today, in what has become one of the biggest days of the year in college football.
"The district understands the importance of the National Letter of Intent signing date (today) to these fine institutions and their football programs and issues this statement in order to clear up any concerns prospective recruits to those universities might have as a result of the events that have unfolded at Fernley High School since last Friday," the statement said.
"The district will continue it's investigation into these serious allegations and will provide additional details, to the extent it is permitted to do so by law, in the future."
So Kevin Riley made the Cal scholarship offer. I didn't know he had the power to recruit his own offensive line. I guess there's no question who our starting QB is gonna be. I wonder if Deppity Dan Lynch's middle name is Marshawn? Well, at least we know who made the Cal offer. Wouldn't it be strange if the Oregon offer came from a guy named Dennis Dixon? One thing is for sure, either this Hart kid didn't know much about the Cal football program or he has a real sense of humor. If it turns out Hart was duped, now he looks even dumber than before. If he was being recruited by Cal and was considering the team, wouldn't he have been aware of Kevin Riley after the Oregon State game? No light bulb went on? So who made the other four offers? And what about the "official recruiting visit" he said he made to Oklahoma State that can't be verified? This story just keeps getting better and better.
The story will be airing at 6PM on Reno TV. He said he wanted to play in college so bad and when nobody paid attention ...
What I find interesting is that he was a District first team offensive tackle so his skills were recognized in the area. Heck he was from Antioch and probably could have gone to Los Medanos or DVC and gotten noticed there. Not the same thing as going to Cal but a lot better than what his prospects are now. Most of my graduating class in engineering at Cal went to JC first. They got the same Cal degree I did.
Posted on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 12:07 — by bearbacker71
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i heard moronsarecoming has poor upper body strength and bad footwork.
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Bearbacker71,
You omitted one possibility - MARK TWAIN
As most Northern Nevadans know, Samuel Clemens worked as a newspaperman in Virginia City (Storey County) near Reno (Washoe County). Virginia City could be considered the birthplace of Mark Twain, as it was here in 1863 that writer Samuel Clemens, then a reporter on the local Territorial Enterprise newspaper, first used his famous pen name. Twain reported on the discovery of a petrified man, in the Territorial Enterprise, October 4, 1862, prompting anthropologists to plan expeditions to the Washoe site.
Quoting from Cemen's article, "The body was in a sitting posture, and leaning against a huge mass of croppings; the attitude was pensive, the right thumb resting against the side of the nose; the left thumb partially supported the chin, the fore-finger pressing the inner corner of the left eye and drawing it partly open; the right eye was closed, and the fingers of the right hand spread apart. "
The article created quite a sensation, "Everybody goes to see the stone man, as many as three hundred having visited the hardened creature during the past five or six weeks."
And there were those who made the harsh overland journey only to discover the message offered by the fossilized hands and Clemens' imagination. Hoax is a fine tradition in Northern Nevada.
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 67
A confession posted on the Nevada Wolfpack Chat site:
"the real story. I tried to keep this on the premium board, but my guilt has forced me to share it through as many mediums as humanly possible.
"I have to confess. Here is what really happened:
"AW got into an argument with rivals. #1PF and I were pissed because AW was providing excellent coverage for wolfpackchat.com and we didn't know what to say when he told us he was going to stop covering the Pack. We then journeyed to fernley, recruited a kid (brad said he was from oregon and I from Cal). We both offered him, I'm a better recruiter so he picked Cal, thus setting the bait for AW to make the trip to Fernley to cover this "Cal recruit." I then laid tire spikes on I-80 and Brad rented a helicopter. We tapped into the California DMV database to get AW's plates, and Brad flew overhead waiting to give me the signal. When I saw the 50 ft by 50 ft UNLV SUCKS banner drop from the back of the chopper I set the spikes! Apparently AW was speeding because he beat the spikes by about 2 seconds and we flattened the tires of several other cars. Brad rented the chopper for 2 more days and flew to mexico to lay low. I have been hiding in the S&B/WPC chamber, with doors locked and phones unplugged. We sent Sammudio to Fernley to make a final kidnapping attempt on AW, but our story was so believable that Sammudio ended up getting and interview and airing the Cal committment on the news.
It was all part of our plan to create a message board with the intent sole intent of selling Wolf Pack gear to its unsuspecting members and thus take over the world. First we got caught by the people on the RGJ forums with our wolf pack apparel hoax, and now our AW kidnapping and fake recruitment has been uncovered. What next? People will find out the Brad IS DPC and was the guest writer for the RGJ all along??? At least leave us that. Damn, I fear I've said to much already!
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Posts: 28
HUH?
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we should throw a hoax every year!
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A New Twist and a New Culprit, KEVIN RILEY.
From the Reno Gazette today
CHRIS GABEL
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
Posted: 2/6/2008
WHAT'S NEXT
The Lyon County Sheriff's Department acknowledged late Tuesday a third party was allegedly involved in the recruiting gone bad of Fernley offensive lineman Kevin Hart.
Hart claims, in a report taken Saturday by the LCSD, that a Kevin Riley falsely represented himself as a recruiter -- a middle man to big-time college football programs -- and led the 6-foot-5, 290-pounder and his family to believe there were scholarship offers available when there were none.
Obtaining money with a false pretense is the charge on the report at this time, said Deputy Dan Lynch, who took the report. Finding Riley could be difficult, though.
"It's an ongoing investigation but we have no suspect at this point and no info to identify a suspect," Lynch said.
Lynch spent 1 1/2 hours Saturday taking statements from Hart and Fernley coach Mark Hodges at the school, a day after Hart verbally committed to California Berkeley during a momentous school assembly that had Hart's father, Richard, holding back tears.
The purported recruiter coincidentally has the same name as a Cal redshirt freshman quarterback, but the sheriff's department does not know of a connection between the Cal quarterback and the recruiter.
Lynch declined to say how much money the Hart family paid Riley, or how the purported recruiter kept in contact with Hart and Hodges.
Hart said at the announcement ceremony Friday that he talked many times with Cal head coach Jeff Tedford and that "personal experience" led to his decision to choose the Golden Bears over Oregon.
But it appears he and his family were misled by Riley. The RGJ reported on Monday that Hart, a two-star prospect according to rivals.com, was never recruited by either Cal or Oregon.
The NCAA continues to keep an eye on the situation, but may not have any jurisdiction over it.
"Our net covers the prospective athlete and the (universities)," said spokeswoman Stacey Osburn, who said her office has received an abundance of calls on the matter. "A third party wouldn't fall under our rules."
Also Tuesday, the universities once thought to have recruited Hart were cleared of any involvement by the Lyon County School District.
The exculpating of Cal, Oregon, Nevada, Oklahoma State and Washington on the eve of National Signing Day was the only significant piece of information to come out of a statement released by the district, which has been conducting an internal investigation of the circumstances that led Hart to announce he was heading to Cal.
"Although only in a preliminary stage, the district's investigation to date has been unable to verify that Kevin Hart was ever offered an athletic scholarship or letter of intent to play football," read the statement, which was issued by LCSD superintendent Nat Lommori and assistant superintendent Teri White.
The news came less than 24 hours before recruits around the country will sign their letters of intent, today, in what has become one of the biggest days of the year in college football.
"The district understands the importance of the National Letter of Intent signing date (today) to these fine institutions and their football programs and issues this statement in order to clear up any concerns prospective recruits to those universities might have as a result of the events that have unfolded at Fernley High School since last Friday," the statement said.
"The district will continue it's investigation into these serious allegations and will provide additional details, to the extent it is permitted to do so by law, in the future."
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Posts: 28
So Kevin Riley made the Cal scholarship offer. I didn't know he had the power to recruit his own offensive line. I guess there's no question who our starting QB is gonna be. I wonder if Deppity Dan Lynch's middle name is Marshawn?
Well, at least we know who made the Cal offer. Wouldn't it be strange if the Oregon offer came from a guy named Dennis Dixon?
One thing is for sure, either this Hart kid didn't know much about the Cal football program or he has a real sense of humor. If it turns out Hart was duped, now he looks even dumber than before. If he was being recruited by Cal and was considering the team, wouldn't he have been aware of Kevin Riley after the Oregon State game? No light bulb went on?
So who made the other four offers? And what about the "official recruiting visit" he said he made to Oklahoma State that can't be verified?
This story just keeps getting better and better.
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Posts: 67
The story will be airing at 6PM on Reno TV. He said he wanted to play in college so bad and when nobody paid attention ...
What I find interesting is that he was a District first team offensive tackle so his skills were recognized in the area. Heck he was from Antioch and probably could have gone to Los Medanos or DVC and gotten noticed there. Not the same thing as going to Cal but a lot better than what his prospects are now. Most of my graduating class in engineering at Cal went to JC first. They got the same Cal degree I did.