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On 9 January 2018, the web site America's Last Line of Defense published an article reporting that University of Alabama running back Bo Scarbrough lost his scholarship over an anti-Trump outburst: The background to this report was the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship held in Atlanta on 8 January 2018, during which -- with President Trump in attendance -- No. 4 Alabama toppled No. 3 Georgia in a thrilling overtime win to clinch the national college football championship. The event was somewhat marred by a controversial viral video clip recorded as Alabama Crimson Tide players were walking between the field and the locker room, during which a player said to be Alabama running back Bo Scarbrough was captured purportedly shouting F*ck Trump! The audio from the clip was far from clear, however, and Scarborough maintained that he had actually yelled F*ck Georgia!: Regardless of what Bo Scarbrough may or may not have said during the referenced outburst, the University of Alabama has not announced any revocation of any scholarship Scarbrough might currently hold or his removal from the football team. In fact, the president of the University of Alabama is Dr. Stuart R. Bell, not Mark Heller, as reported in the America's Last Line of Defense article. Additionally, Scarbrough is reportedly planning to skip his senior year at Alabama to enter the NFL draft, in which case the penalties putatively aimed at him would have no effect anyway. All of this misinformation is to be expected, as the sole source for this story is part of a network of fake news web sites that traffic in fabricated political clickbait, and the site carries a disclaimer stating that Everything on this website is fiction.
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