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By Jimmy Traina After being accused of being fake, Watt took out a Twitter troll. 1. It’s been a great week for people getting revenge on trolls. Earlier this week, I posted a video in Traina Thoughts of someone setting up a sting to confront a troll. Today, we have the story of J.J. Watt’s ending the Twitter career of another troll. On Tuesday, Watt shared his thoughts on being one of the three fastest players to 75 sacks in NFL history. So, here’s Watt sharing a pretty cool tidbit about being in a group with his brother and the NFL player he idolized as a kid. But because many of the awful p…

By Jimmy Traina Good weather in December, Tom Brady had Joe Buck feeling good Monday night. 1. Sports fans seem to pay very close attention to anything Joe Buck does these days. The voice of Monday Night Football (and recent SI Media Podcast guest) always trends when he calls a game, but Monday, Buck didn’t draw attention for his play-by-play work. This time, it was Buck’s intro to the Saints-Bucs game on ESPN that caught fans’ attention. Buck sounded hyped—very hyped—to be calling a 5–6 vs. 4–8 matchup. As we saw the scene outside the stadium, Buck said, “The weather is beautiful in Tampa, Fl…

By Pat Forde The man at the reins of ‘Message Board Geniuses’ speaks, plus a look at the preseason Playoff picture. Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (even-year sorcery sold separately in Evanston): MORE DASH: Desperate Times SECOND QUARTERTHE BEST TWITTER ACCOUNT IN COLLEGE FOOTBALLThe math is clear: Teams play one game a week, which means there are six other days a week when that team does not play. And that makes the ratio of time spent talking about a team vs. time spent watching said team extremely high. Especially in the college realm, where there are…

By Madeline Coleman May what happen to Jeff Passan be a reminder to everyone to update their passwords regularly. MLB players aren’t the only ones experiencing a lockout right now. Imagine: You’re one of the top MLB insiders, covering one of baseball’s biggest stories—for the first time in nearly three decades, the regular season games are being canceled due to a work stoppage. Progress is being made behind closed doors, and as you go to tweet the latest update from your sources, you realize you can’t. You’ve been hacked. This is how Jeff Passan’s day went on Thursday, a day after league commi…

By Dan Lyons A Twitter prankster got picked up by Twitter’s trending topics for a fake quote, in which Garnett calls out modern NBA stars. View the original article to see embedded media. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. That is especially true on Twitter, where “parody accounts” and other purveyors of false information run amok. On Wednesday morning, one of these accounts posted a pretty convincing graphic, showing a quote attributed to NBA great Kevin Garnett. It is, of course, very fake “Everybody’s just running from the grind nowadays, teaming up with each other,” the fak…