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1-year sentence for angry fan who made football game threat

by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
| October 28, 2020 12:06 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A California man’s threats to harm college football players because they beat his favored team epitomized “fandom spiraled out of control,” something that can't be ignored in the age of mass shootings, a federal judge said Tuesday as he handed down a sentence of one year and a day over the 2018 threats.

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