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Tulane coach Ron Hunter addresses X posts suggesting he's leaving for North Texas.

Tulane puts out video of coach Ron Hunter refuting rumor from ‘Jon Rothstien’

"Don't read all the bad stuff that's out there."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMar 27, 2025 0
A triptych of broadcasts Jesse Bell’s “NOOOOO!!!” call has been set to: 2023 Western-Queen’s (where it originated, R), an older Pittsburgh Steelers-Baltimore Ravens game (C), and a Sept. 21, 2024 Baylor-Colorado game (L.) (X/Twitter and TikTok.)

International

2023 Canadian university football call goes viral on other football highlights on TikTok

Some of the worst aggregation this week involved fake news and fake tweets.

This Week In Bad Aggregation: Grok claims Shannon Sharpe was fired, Colin Cowherd cites fake Travis Kelce tweet

Fake tweets and fake news led to some of the worst aggregation blunders this week.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnSep 13, 2024 0
The @derrico_henrio X account fooled a lot of people with a tweet on a non-existent Baylor scandal.

An obviously fake Baylor gambling scandal X post fooled a lot of people

No, @derrico_henrio is not the CBS Sports college football account.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMay 18, 2024 2

Multiple outlets fooled by fake Odell Beckham Sr. social media post about Lamar Jackson

While the sports media continues to rely on Elon Musk’s X as a resource and conversation outlet, it...

By Sean Keeley OnJan 28, 2024 2
Emmanuel Acho on Caleb Williams

Emmanuel Acho gives away the game after getting called out for sharing fake Caleb Williams story

"Either way, real or fake, the video would garner traction which would increase followers."

By Sean Keeley OnJan 13, 2024 1
Urban Meyer

Urban Meyer responds to fake quote attributed to him about Michigan

"Complete nonsense."

By Ben Axelrod OnNov 17, 2023 1
Draymond Green in a May 2023 playoff game.

Draymond Green blasts Kevin Garnett over fake quote from fake Twitter account, which was then suspended

Kevin Garnett did not actually say "Come try me Dray."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 19, 2023 2
Kendrick Perkins. Photo Credit: ESPN

Viral Twitter joke about Jonathan Kuminga growth spurt dupes ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins

"I hate this damn app."

By Sean Keeley OnJun 20, 2023 5
PFT Commenter on SportsCenter.

PFT Commenter fake Brett Favre quote produced ‘world record’ ‘of deleted quote tweets from blue check journalists’

"We might set a world record for 'most amount of deleted quote tweets from blue check journalists'

By Andrew Bucholtz OnSep 29, 2022 1

NBA

Ballsack Sports: Common Twitter troll or sports media’s Birds Aren’t Real?

The initial Twitter trending summary for a "RobBuchananFox" fake quote.

A Twitter trend description treated a “RobBuchananFox” fake quote attributed to Ballsack Sports as real, then changed it

No, Twitter, these were not "Kevin Garnett's comments."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnFeb 16, 2022 0
KLAS (left) got fooled by a fake tweet (right) about Gerard Gallant.

CBS Las Vegas affiliate KLAS falls for fake news from fake account, reports that Gerard Gallant’s been named New Jersey Devils head coach

No, @NJDevills is not a trusted source of New Jersey Devils' news.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJan 30, 2020 0
Carlos Beltrán at the 2019 Winter Meetings.

Carlos Beltrán-defending “Iván B” Twitter account is linked to an “Iván Beltrán” e-mail address, which is Carlos Beltrán’s middle name

The "Iván B" account was created Tuesday night. Its only replies so far are defending Beltrán. And it appears to be linked to an "Iván Beltrán" e-mail address.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJan 15, 2020 2
Skip Bayless relays a false Chris Paul report.

Skip Bayless cites fake report from Twitter troll SportsTalkBarry on Chris Paul mocking James Harden “for having manboobs”

"There was the one report yesterday that this got so bad in practice going back two years ago that Chris Paul was making fun of Harden's manboobs in practice to the point where he broke down in tears and had to leave a couple of practices."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJun 19, 2019 1
Steve Berthiaume got a booth visit from a family invited by someone with a fake Twitter account in his name.

Family visits Diamondbacks’ booth at invitation of fake Steve Berthiaume account, surprising real Berthiaume

Michael Ravare's invitation to visit the Diamondbacks' booth came from a fake Steve Berthiaume account, leading to some on-broadcast awkwardness.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMay 31, 2019 0
Fake reporter Richard West spread a false story about Colgate's Jordan Burns, and many bought it.

Fake reporter tweeted that Colgate’s Jordan Burns missed a flight and took an Uber, fooled CBS and Burns’ mom

A fake reporter account that's been around since December got almost 10,000 likes for a false report of a Colgate player missing a flight, a report subsequently picked up by some CBS local sites. That report even fooled the player's mom.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMar 21, 2019 1
"Dick Tator" is not an ESPN reporter. The account got called out by Johnny Manziel, then framed that tweet.

Johnny Manziel calls out “Real Dick Tator,” a Twitter account pretending to be an ESPN reporter, so “Tator” frames the tweet

No, "@RealDickTator" is not actually an ESPN reporter.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnFeb 27, 2019 0

NHL

Ottawa Citizen review finds at least 20 “contrived Twitter accounts” that attacked the paper following Senators’ Uber video story

Peter King was fooled by a fake tweet.

Peter King and Don Van Natta Jr. were fooled by fake Adam Schefter account tweeting Kaepernick signing

King and Van Natta Jr. both retweeted the fake tweet, then deleted their retweets and apologized.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnOct 31, 2017 2
The fake Wojnarowski tweet from ESPN PR.

ESPN PR promoted Adrian Wojnarowski’s handle before he changed it, then deleted the tweet

Might want to check that handle first.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 1, 2017 1

ESPN

ESPN’s Around The Horn cites fake Woj tweet with “of course it’s legitimate”

ESPN airs tweets from, verifies fake Mike Dunleavy Jr. account following his trade

Even in the age of verified blue checkmarks, people and media outlets regularly get fooled by fake Twitter...

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJul 7, 2016 1

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