Jerry Tipton is a veteran sports reporter covering Kentucky Wildcats basketball for the Lexington Herald-Leader since the early 80s.
Not Jerry Tipton, on the other hand, is a Twitter handle with over 71K followers described by our tipster thusly:
@NotJerryTipton is a horrid troll who is a UK fan.
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He’s also, apparently, an attorney. Lee Stewart, a partner at Gaines Gault Hendrix was recently outed as the man beyond the parody by an enterprising physician who managed to work out Stewart’s identity and blast it out on Twitter.
While some trolls scurry from the light of day, Stewart embraces his notoriety:
“I don’t really care other than the possibility that you get some angry 19-year-old drunk Louisville fan leaving a message at my place of business,” Stewart said. “… They’re a small fanbase — outside of Jefferson County, there aren’t very many Louisville fans. They’re centrally located in one place, but they’re a passionate lot, I’ll give them that.”
There’s just no off position of the Louisville mockery switch is there? That said, making fun of the Cardinals is kind of like beating up a toddler at this point. I mean, when a program is accused of supplying prostitutes to players and that’s not even the scandal that gets the coach fired, the jokes kind of write themselves. And that’s not even touching on the football coach who got s**tcanned from his former job when his affair with a 25-year-old staffer came to light after he crashed a motorcycle with her.
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Plus Papa John’s sucks.
So it’s safe to say Stewart will have more than enough fodder to keep on tweeting for the foreseeable future.
Unmasked, not declawed: How a Jerry Tipton parody Twitter account took aim at Louisville [Courier Journal]
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