Last week, while AHor, ha-mace, FuhQ2 and the rest of the sporting world was getting all hot 'n bothered over Terrelle Pryor's commitment announcement (which, by the way, is still pending), Cal was raking in recruits--one of whom wasn't even recruited.

Kevin Hart, offensive lineman at Fernley High School in Nevada, held a dramatic news conference in which he chose Cal over Oregon by putting on a Cal hat (shades of Desean Jackson, much?). A dream come true for a small-town high school football player; except that both schools denied recruiting him. Hart tried to blame it on a bad deal with an agent that was supposed to promote him, but later admitted that he had made up the story and now faces possible criminal charges for filing a false police report.

My question is this: Did he think no one would check? That he would just be able to walk into football practice and start going to classes? There's a lot of bureaucracy at Cal, and plenty of things slip through the cracks (12-page papers, a semester's grades, $4,000 in tuition), but a 6'5", 290-pound linebacker is not one of them.