Usually when someone sends out crazy tweets and later says, “I got hacked!”, you think, “Suuuure.” But in the case of the Sporting News on Wednesday evening, I think they really were hacked.
Either @sportingnews has been hacked, or they really like poop. pic.twitter.com/uGsQO39tZb — The_Real_Clint (@The_real_Clint) June 29, 2016
Welp. The tweets were deleted within a couple minutes, and Sporting News just kept on like nothing happened (but much of the Twitterverse definitely noticed).
To be fair, Sporting News certainly wasn’t alone in making crappy tweets/takes today in the sports world:
UPDATE: Sporting News has responded, and in outstanding fashion: