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"15 Hilarious Sports Parody Twitter Accounts\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. @NotBillWalton\n\nNBA legend and hardcore Grateful Dead fan, Bill Walton is known for his sometimes curious verbiage and his philosophical take on the game of basketball. This account takes full advantage.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. @TheFakeESPN\n\nThis account serves as a bizarro version of the Worldwide Leader in Sports, and has some 175,000 followers as a testament to its humor.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. @RogerGoodell\n\nNFL commissioner Roger Goodell is a pretty serious fellow, but what if he told us how he really feels?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. @_Happy_Gilmore\n\nWait, that Adam Sandler movie was fiction, right?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. @fakegrantland\n\nThe smart and oh-so-hip website Grantland provides loads of great sports writing, but can sometimes take itself a wee bit seriously. This account pokes fun with fake stories and headlines.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. @CoachQsMustache\n\nJoel Quenneville, coach of the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks, sports a formidable bristly 'stache. Follow its trials and tribulations here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. @PeytonsHead\n\nThis account pays homage to quarterback Peyton Manning's nugget, and provides commentary on happenings around the sports world.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. @Fake_Prokhorov\n\nNew Jersey Nets owner and Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov could give that Dos Equis guy a run for his money as the Most Interesting Man in the World. So he's a natural for a fake Twitter account.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. @FauxJohnMadden\n\nLegendary NFL coach and analyst John Madden -- straight, no chaser and with a twist of the ridiculous.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. @FakeCoachPop\n\nSan Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is known to be a cool, but fairly reserved dude. He'd probably be great on Twitter, but for now, this fake account will have to do.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11. @PretendLouHoltz\n\nFormer Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz can be pretty tough to understand as a sportscaster, due to his excitable nature and less-than-stellar enunciation. This account hasn't tweeted in couple months, but will hopefully get going again when football season comes around.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12. @EmoChrisBosh\n\nFair or not, Miami Heat forward Chris Bosh is frequently maligned for timid play and a lack of mental toughness. This account plays off his perceived \"emo\" nature.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13. @RexRyan\n\nVerbose New York Jets coach Rex Ryan is not (yet) on Twitter. Until he joins, this will have to do.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14. @OldHossRadbourn\n\nCharles \"Old Hoss\" Radbourn was a baseball pitcher in the 1800s. What if his ghost had a Twitter account?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n15. @FakeFredWilpon\n\nNew York Mets owner Fred Wilpon is a high-profile figure, in part for being a victim of Bernard Madoff's financial scam. Keep up with him in (fake) real-time here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSports and Twitter, sitting in a tree...\nThe microblogging network and the sporting world have been a natural fit pretty much since Twitter was born. NBA players were among its earliest big-name adopters. Today, athletes and reporters break sports news on the network every day. It's also a key way for stars to build modern marketing potential. Plus, passionate fans need a public outlet in which to gloat, commiserate and talk trash, right? \nSo it's only natural that a plethora of fake sports-themed Twitter accounts have popped up over the years, too. Some have already come and gone \u2014 @LeBronJamesEgo, for example. But there are plenty of great ones still providing laughs for social media-savvy sports fans. \n\nSEE ALSO: 10 Best Spoof Twitter Accounts of 2011 | Twitter Parodies: 9 Top Literary Fakes\nHere, we provide 10 of the funniest sports parody Twitter accounts from around the web. The Bill Walton Trip posts goofy musings and opinions from the legendary center, who doubles as the world's tallest Deadhead. Fake accounts represent the micro level of pro athletics, too \u2014 there's one devoted to an NHL coach's awesome moustache. Parody accounts even transcend space and time; one represents an 1800s baseball player who tweets as if living in the present day.   \nClick through the slideshow above for the full rundown. But it's not easy to collect all the giggle-inducing accounts from around the Twittersphere, so let us know in the comments \u2014 who did we miss?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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