Busy sports news days are like holidays for the internet trolls who masquerade as reporters on Twitter. The jokesters behind accounts with names like @w0jespn and @JayG1azer really shine around trade deadlines, draft days and free agency openings. On the NFL’s “Black Monday,” the trolls had one of their biggest coups to date when ESPN fell for a Twitter user posing as one of the network’s own reporters.
On Monday afternoon, ESPN.com’s news desk published a brief item saying the Dolphins had fired offensive coordinator Chan Gailey, per a source of Adam Schefter’s. Shortly thereafter, ESPN published a retraction.