This is a weird article. There's no evidence or proof, just the author claiming he did it.

Edit: Saw there's a pay to read more option.

Yeah, sounds like a clickbait. Did you notice the paid sign up at the bottom? I guess we will never find out...

"Hey! Are you new here? The rest of this story is only for paid subscribers. Upgrade to read it all."

There's a weird literal click bait sports headlines online website out there that's basically just farming sports teams and athletes because I assume they are easy to game. It was -good- enough that news.google.com was syndicating these articles that had zero substance.