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12-30-2006, 11:24 AM
This is an old show, but HBO is rebroadcasting it - if you get a chance watch it - very very odd.
Here is what the segment is about:
Born to Run
In one of the strangest REAL SPORTS segments ever, correspondent Bernard Goldberg went behind bars in Colorado to profile James Hogue, one of the most successful imposters of modern times. A nondescript high-school runner in the 1970s, who later ran track at the University of Wyoming, Hogue subsequently transformed himself into a series of characters, fooling academic administrators, friends, coaches and teammates. Equipped with charm and intelligence, he began his athletic deception at Palo Alto High School in northern California in 1985, stealing the identity of a child who had died at age two and distinguishing himself as a track star. In 1988, Hogue was admitted to Princeton, where he posed as Alexi Indris Santana, supposedly a home- schooled student from the Mojave desert. His fake identity was eventually blown by a former Palo Alto classmate.
Here is what the segment is about:
Born to Run
In one of the strangest REAL SPORTS segments ever, correspondent Bernard Goldberg went behind bars in Colorado to profile James Hogue, one of the most successful imposters of modern times. A nondescript high-school runner in the 1970s, who later ran track at the University of Wyoming, Hogue subsequently transformed himself into a series of characters, fooling academic administrators, friends, coaches and teammates. Equipped with charm and intelligence, he began his athletic deception at Palo Alto High School in northern California in 1985, stealing the identity of a child who had died at age two and distinguishing himself as a track star. In 1988, Hogue was admitted to Princeton, where he posed as Alexi Indris Santana, supposedly a home- schooled student from the Mojave desert. His fake identity was eventually blown by a former Palo Alto classmate.