At the Mayweather-McGregor fight in Vegas, a scammer purchased a nosebleed ticket, but snuck his way ringside. Another sneaker — a college student pretending to be a Bleacher Report journalist — recently outwitted security and got into Game 7, the biggest NBA event of the season. Lesser sporting events — like a regular Friday night Yankee games — also have their fair share of gate-crashers.
This isn’t a new phenomenon, Bleacher Report notes, but it’s happening more frequently than a stadium operator would care for you to know about. And if it’s up to the sneakers profiled in the article, it seems there’s little chance of slowing down.
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