ESPN, Pat McAfee Facing Massive Lawsuit Over Internet Rumor Scandal: 'Throwing Up'

ESPN, Pat McAfee Facing Massive Lawsuit Over Internet Rumor Scandal: ‘Throwing Up’


ESPN’s Pat McAfee has made quite a name for himself thanks to his reach on media and social media — now he’s facing a lawsuit from a college student who accuses him of ruining hers.

The voluble host of “The Pat McAfee Show,” which is carried by ESPN and has almost 3 million YouTube subscribers, is officially a football analyst, but he’s known for comments that stray far from the X’s and O’s of gridiron play.

When he did that in late February to spread an apparently baseless rumor about a University of Mississippi student, he invited what could be a massive lawsuit against him.

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On Feb. 26, on a show from the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, McAfee made a national conversation of a

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