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Weck, Scorned, Gets Revenge On Former Spouse

Update (June 2, 9:41 a.m.): The former BW3's apologizes for the “awful tweets” but not for their awful food: ...

Bogus NCAA Rule Limits Reporters To One Tweet Per Inning For Baseball Playoffs [Update]

College baseball writers better be prepared to be succinct as hell for the next four weeks....

The Week That Twitter Wrecked Everyone

During this week, which is only about half over, some extremely overstated acts of Twitter-based idiocy have already led to the cancellation of ABC’s hit reboot of Roseanne, thanks to the latest extremely racist flare-up of star Roseanne Barr’s longstanding and apparently incurable case of Internet ...

Bryan Colangelo’s Wife Could Be The Person Behind Woodergate

When Sixers GM Bryan Colangelo defended himself against Tuesday’s report from The Ringer that linked him to some aggressive anonymous Twitter accounts, he told a reporter, “Someone’s out to get me.” But as Colangelo continues to deny any connection to the accounts, new findings in the Woodergate cas...

What Are The Last Two Numbers Of Bryan Colangelo’s Cell Phone?

When news of The Ringer’s investigation into burner Twitter accounts broke last night, it lit basketball corners of the internet aflame. Because the information tweeted by accounts like @Enoughunkownso1, @AlVic40117560 and @s_bonhams seemed to include things only a member of the Sixers’ front office...

The Sixers Will Investigate Bryan Colangelo's Twitter Use

Way more interesting than the finals is the Ringer story reporting that Bryan Colangelo, the Philadelphia 76ers’ president of basketball ops, may have been behind up to five anonymous Twitter accounts airing the team’s dirty laundry and defending Colangelo and his shirt collars....

Report: These Anonymous Twitter Accounts Love To Defend 76ers GM Bryan Colangelo's Honor And Shirt Collars

In a report for The Ringer, Ben Detrick has presented compelling evidence that Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo has a set of anonymous Twitter accounts, which he’s used to criticize his own players, slam former team GM Sam Hinkie, give out his players’ private me...

Darren Rovell Tries To Explain Economics To Marvin Jones, Gets Dunked On

“Actually,” Darren Rovell probably smirked as he adjusted his bowtie before lecturing a celebratory Marvin Jones, who had just tweeted about a bakery franchise he is opening with his wife, “it’s more complicated than you think.”...

Trevor Bauer, Lover Of Logic And Facts, Casually Suggests Astros Are Doctoring Pitches [Update]

Professor Trevor Bauer is at it again. The Indians pitcher and science knower weighed in on a question to Driveline Baseball founder Kyle Boddy about whether the Houston Astros’ pitching staff could be using some sort of illicit substance to increase their spin rate:...

I Will Do A Good Blog. I Will Do A Good Blog. <em></em>I Will Do A Good Blog.<em></em>

Positive thinking is a powerful thing. Or at least regression to the mean is....

This Is "This Is March": Unpacking College Basketball's Most Uncanny Twitter Account

Jon Rothstein is a real person. He was born in a town at the very outermost edge of what could be called exurban New York City and has covered sports for a living virtually from the moment he graduated from Ithaca College. Rothstein won a Dream Job contest at New York’s ESPN sports radio station, 10...

Rafael Palmeiro, 1996

[Keep up with its progression, and if the Fox Sports Radio host keeps the tweet up, here. Track your own Twitter Triple Crown candidates here.]...

UMBC's Twitter Account Is Last Night's Real Winner

Yes, the UMBC Retrievers made history last night by crushing the top-ranked team in the country to become the first 16-seed to win in the men’s round of 64. Not to belittle that achievement, but we’re going with the UMBC athletics Twitter account (which started with 5,000 followers and now has septu...

Thank You, Colin

Dana Loesch's Life Used To Be A Mildly Successful 1990s Jim Carrey Movie

NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch talks a tough game when she’s describing how gun-totin’ Americans need to fight for freedom with the “clenched fist of truth.” But on Twitter, she’s talked about crapping her “pannies.” And eating “strawberries and cream cheese.” And her struggles going up and down stair...

For Black History Month, Boston Police Pay Tribute To White Man Who Coached Black Guys

Boston’s reputation as a city oblivious to racial issues is undeserved, I tell you....

We Are All T.O.

Steve Kerr Accidentally Sent A Tweet Criticizing The NBA Because He Was Foiled By Technology

Last night, Warriors coach Steve Kerr replied to an NBA tweet that featured a video of James Harden hitting a three-pointer (and appearing to travel, though the egregious gather move is technically legal). He deleted his take within seconds, but that was far too late....

Report: Britt McHenry Is Fake News

Britt McHenry, who should really update her handwringing-about-rap shtick since N.W.A isn’t what the kids listen to anymore, was named this weekend in a New York Times report as one of the celebrities, “celebrities,” and media members who have purchased phony Twitter followers through a company call...

There Is Now An App For Triple Crown Ratio Lines On Bad Tweets, And It Rules

You are familiar, at this point, with how this all goes. Some verified foof on Twitter gets something grandly, gratingly wrong and then it gets...noticed. We are far enough along in the online part of our endless civilizational deadfall that we even have a name for this, now: that Bad Tweet and its...