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Ray Allen Says He Was Catfished By Man, Who Claims Allen's A StalkerThe day after a man named Bryant Coleman told a Florida court that he’s being stalked by Ray Allen, the former NBA player has responded with an emergency motion saying that he, in fact, is the one being stalked by Coleman. Their contact began, Allen said, after Coleman catfished him by pretending to...

Nev Schulman Wants Nothing To Do With DeadspinLast week I published a story on a bizarre long-term catfishing scandal in the world of baseball blogging. I quickly heard from Max Joseph, cohost of the MTV show Catfish....

Teen Girl Posed For 8 Years As Married Man To Write About Baseball And Harass WomenFor the last eight years, baseball fan-turned-writer Becca Schultz has presented herself online as Ryan Schultz, a false identity she assumed when she was 13 years old, duping and harassing women on Twitter along the way. ...

I Was Catfished By ABC's <i>What Would You Do?</i>

I originally leveraged online dating to begin seeing average-sized women. Before moving back to New York a few years ago, I had only dated little women— i.e., women who were born with dwarfism. At bars or parties, my social anxiety, the kind that comes with being a little person myself, made it diff...

Fulham Catfished Their Own Players To Show The Dangers Of Flirting With Teens Online

Second-tier English club Fulham have taken the implications of former Sunderland winger Adam Johnson’s conviction on three criminal charges stemming from his relationship with a 15-year-old girl very seriously. To alert their players to the dangers of using social media to connect with pretty, young...

Report: I.K. Enemkpali Got Catfished By A Guy Under A Blanket Hiding In The Dark

I.K. Enemkpali, better known as the guy who broke Geno Smith’s jaw, is in the news again, this time for something much, much crazier. According to Outside the Lines, Enemkpali missed his 2011 season opener while attending Louisiana Tech because “he injured his hand when punching a man he thought was...

Fake Female Ole Miss Fan Used Twitter To Recruit Athletes For Years

A prominent Ole Miss athletics backer known for tweeting at and promoting potential Rebels student-athletes was revealed to be a fake account yesterday, ending years of speculation that the blonde and perky "Analesa Presley" did not exist at all....

Paul George Apparently Catfished, May Have Sent A Dick Pic

Goddamnit, Paul George. Why can't you just be awesome at dunking basketballs and not send semi-nude and possibly even dick pics to randos online? ...