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Karl-Anthony Towns responds to Shams Charania’s “expected to return” report with “This is news to me!” (update: he did return)
"This is news to me! Last time I checked, I was gonna go through shootaround and see how I feel. Underlying conditions and Covid don’t mix well."
TSN’s Frank Seravalli had a great response to the agency that called his true David Ludwig report “false”
"Hi Kurt, just passing this along from the Coyotes. Take care." is a next-level burn of someone who implied that a reporter was lying.
Bob Costas says the Twitter account with his name was a fake: “The fires of hell are still very much blazing.”
Hell has not yet frozen over, and Bob Costas is not yet on Twitter.
Illinois athletics department lobs “Thanks for bringing back B1G football” tweet at Nebraska after 41-23 thumping
The Illinois athletic department sent quite the tweet Saturday before later deleting it.
The White Sox congratulated Rick Renteria, who they fired in favor of Tony La Russa, for an AL Manager of the Year nomination
The White Sox fired Renteria last month, but congratulated him on an award nomination Monday.
Nebraska’s official radio account asked readers if they thought Big Ten rules would apply to the Huskers
This was certainly an interesting decision from the Huskers' official radio account.
Twitter again got the NCAA football schedule wrong, citing Arizona State and Minnesota games (both not happening) as “live”
The Big Ten, Pac-12 and Big Sky are all currently not planning to play football until 2021, but Twitter's events approach missed that information.
The Texas Rangers turned off replies on a final-score Twitter post, leading to quote-retweet ratios and “unwritten rules” criticisms
The Texas Rangers' social media department apparently doesn't believe in letting people reply to their posts. Perhaps they consider that to be another MLB "unwritten rule."
The Indians’ Twitter account responded to the Reds’ LeBron trolling with “Cincinnati, so nice we beat them thrice”
Trying to troll Cleveland over LeBron leaving didn't work out great for the Reds.
The IOC has apologized “to those who feel offended” and deleted a video and tweet celebrating the 1936 Berlin Olympics torch lighting
"We apologize to those who feel offended by the film of the Olympic Games Berlin 1936. We have deleted this film, which was part of the series of films featuring the message of unity and solidarity, from the @Olympics Twitter account."
The Chiefs teamed with Katie Camlin, the liquor store employee who broke the Patrick Mahomes news, for a Chris Jones extension video
"Come on, Katie. Leave some scoops (and champagne) for the rest of us."
Braves fan Brian Chandler beat the world to the Yasiel Puig signing
Chandler tweeted about seeing Puig at an Atlanta hotel at 2:11 p.m. Eastern Tuesday, and speculated that that meant "Puig to the Braves," hours before any of the MLB insiders had that news.
