ESPN features Fernley recruiting hoax

By Steve Silver

Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009 | 5:32 p.m.

ESPN's "Outside the Lines" ran a feature Sunday on the aftermath of the now infamous recruiting hoax pulled off by former Fernley High School offensive lineman Kevin Hart during last year's signing day in February.

Hart fooled his family, coaches and classmates with elaborate tales of being recruited by Division I football programs. Fernley held a pep rally and press conference in which Hart pretended to select California over Oregon as his future football team.

All of Hart's lies were eventually exposed, but ESPN caught up with Hart, who is now back on the gridiron at Feather River College, a junior college in Quincy, Calif.

Hart's high school football coach, Mark Hodges, resigned at the end of the school year and is currently entangled in a legal battle with the Fernley school district.