and the case of the philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations brian colangelo. this report in the website the ringer, the curious case of brian colangelo and the secret twitter account made a convincing case linking colangelo to several twitter accounts that criticize nba players, debate the decisions of his own coaching staff and criticize former sixers gm sam hinkey and disclosing private medical information and gossip about players. this triggered the sixers to launch an internal probe which included colangelo surrendering his cell phones. he insisted he had nothing to do with the postings and was unaware of them until the ringer picked up the story. it's looking like the culprit may be his wife. colangelo has, quote, discussed with ownership and upper management the possibility that his wife barbara bottini may have been involved in the postings of the tweets from the so-called burner accounts. this is highly reminiscent of a story about nfl commissioner roger goodell's wife jane skinner who admitted shooed used a fake twitter account to defend goodell again

for his part, colangelo denies knowledge of those accounts saying in a statement, quote, her actions were a seriously misguided effort to publicly defend and support me. >>> we are now one day away from the 2018 belmont stakes. tomorrow afternoon, nbc will broadcast the 150th running live from belmont park in elmont, new york. excitement is growing there as justify looks to win the triple crown and become just the 13th horse in history to do so. if justify can place that incredible accomplishment, it will be the second triple crown for his trainer. >> some of us might want to throw a few dollars on that race but we need that information. will it be a muddy track or not? >> it's looking less and less likely. it's looking like a firm track for once. everyone likes to get that $2 win ticket. you keep it too. you don't want to cash that in. as we go through saturday's forecast, let's watch this. showers and storms during the afternoon through the ohio valley. hit and miss in northern virginia. saturday's not looking that bad we get to sunday, n, d there's a little more energy involved wi

. >> reporter: brian colangelo resigning thursday after team investigators say they found that several twitter burner accounts used to anonymously criticize the team were not run by trolls on the internet but by colangelo's own wife. investatorsay colangelo's wife, barbara, admitted to operating four accounts used to defend her husband and take digs at players on his team, taking aim at the team's biggest superstar, joel embiid. i would love to knock some sense into joel's head right now. he is playing like a toddler, having tantrums. while investigators say there is no evidence colangelo, a two-time nba executive of the year, operated or knew about the accounts, they say they believe he provided his wife with private information she made public, including details of trade discussions and even medical reports. it's not the first time burner accounts have gotten in the way of the game. >> thanks to everybody for watching and we'll see you down the road. >> reporter: last year roger goodell's wife jane admitted to operating a bogus account she used solely to defend her husband saying, it

>> bryan colangelo the president of basketball operations is out. he has resigned and the sixers has accepted his resignation this follows into an investigation into social media accounts that may have been linked to him that posted sensitive team information on personnel and other matters. an investigation by independent lawyers revealed while he may have been guilty of some things it did say that we believe there colangelo was careless and in some instances reckless in failing to safe public service outside of the 76ers organization the twitter accounts lawyers found were linked to his wife. they are looking to move on, scott, an interesting development on a social media link story we've been following for quite some time in sports. >> i was wondering, dom, thank you, how all of this was going to play out after the initial reports came out about those alleged accounts >> my wife has a burner account. she just keeps tweeting all day. >>> let's retouch the markets here as we're about to hit 12:30. dow jones up nearly 150 points closing above 25,000

the president of basketball operations bryan colangelo has now resigned. an independent review found his wife used multiple twitter accounts to bash the team's players. investigators say the information that he gave his wife was used to attack the players even if he didn't know she was doing it. >>> washington, d.c. is celebrating its first sports title since the bush administration. that would be george h.w. bush administration. the washington capitals clinching the stanley cup late last night and beat the rookies, vegas golden knights 4-3 to win the series in five games. it's the first stanley cup in the team's 44-year history, ovechkin the mvp holding the trophy there. fans flooded the streets of d.c.'s chinatown to celebrate. the win was emotional for t.j. oshie whose father has alzheimer's. >> he doesn't remember a lot of stuff these days. he remembers enough. but i'll tell you what, he's here tonight. i don't know where he's at. but this one will stick with him forever. >> well, oshie eventually did find his dad. you see it right there and the emotio

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. >>> the philadelphia 76ers have parted ways with team president bryan colangelo and the twitter scandal with burner accounts and ripping sixer players were set up supposedly by his wife. watch your burner accounts, everybody out there. >>> patriots receiver julian edelman is facing a four game suspension for violating the policy of performance enhancing substances. he's a rppesults. edelman has become one of tom brady's favorite targets entering his 10rh season. terrell owens will be inducted into the pro football hall of fame this summer. he says he will not be there. he would be the first inductee to be put in the hall of fame. he was frustrated several years when he didn't get enough votes. he said he wants to celebrate elsewhere. raiders took the day off for practice, and hosted 7 on 7 with these guys. how would you like that? catch right there! the tip drill, number 4 getting it done with the dive. nicely done. abc7 sports, brought to you by mazda. steve young and deion sanders are trying to talk t.o., a former niner to go to the ceremony. >> he may regret that. >> that's what they