Thursday’s Mashup: Bryan Colangelo on alleged Twitter burner accounts: ‘Someone’s out to get me’

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AROUND THE WEB:

-- 76ers president Bryan Colangelo spoke out on the Twitter accounts allegedly connected to him and denied any association with those accounts.

"Someone's out to get me ... This is clearly not me,” Colangelo told Yahoo Sports via text.

He added he is “hopeful to resolve this soon.”

The team launched an investigation into the accounts, through which tweets were posted criticizing players, coaches and teams. The Ringer connected five accounts to Colangelo but he vehemently denies involvement.

In a statement to The Ringer, Colangelo said, “While I have never posted anything whatsoever on social media, I have used the @Phila1234567 Twitter account referenced in this story to monitor our industry and other current events. This storyline is disturbing to me on many levels, as I am not familiar with any of the other accounts that have been brought to my attention, nor do I know who is behind them or what their motives may be in using them.”

In another twist, it was discovered Wednesday Colangelo’s wife, Barbara Bottini, could be involved in this, as her phone number might be associated with one of the accounts.

----------Colangelo’s wife, Barbara Bottini has a phone number ending in 91, almost certainly linking her to 3 of the burner accounts.WOW. pic.twitter.com/PQpe5GccEh

— Did the Sixers win? (@DidTheSixersWin) May 31, 2018

Bryan's wife, Barbara Bottini, was given an award by their son's high school, due to her service to the school (which includes helping with the Arts boosters, which connects to the Bonhams name in another account) . who nominated her? two people Eric jr followed. pic.twitter.com/3u4Xoh1qz2

— Burner Colangelo (@legsanity) May 30, 2018

-- An Eagles fan who punched a police horse is now suing the team, claiming he is the actual victim in this situation.

Andrew Tornetta, who was arrested in January outside Lincoln Financial Field, claims he did not intentionally punch the police horse and he was beaten by police for no reason.

Tornetta said the cops gave a misleading statement to investigators when they said he punched the horse twice with a closed fist. He claims the mounted officers rode up on him, grabbed him, dragged him and beat him with batons.

He said he was "demonized on social media and internet sites reporting upon his assault on police and his cruelty towards an animal."

Tornetta is suing the two officers and the Eagles, claiming their security officers were not properly trained. He was charged with resisting arrest, failure to disperse and disorderly conduct in the criminal case but the charges were dropped after he completed 12 hours of community service.

BONUS: Here is Bill Belichick going through a Chick-fil-A drive-thru:

A post shared by SportsGossip.com (@sportsgossip_com) on May 30, 2018 at 10:40am PDT

 

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “It’s crazy that people haven’t known this. It’s been this way for like a decade -- Reggie Wayne did it. He retired. He went there [to the Patriots> for a training camp and retired. [Expletive> is not fun there. I was under the same regime in Houston [with O’Brien>. I almost retired. [Expletive> was miserable, every day. Every day.”-- Brandon Brooks, ripping the Patriots for not being a fun organization