The New York Post says Terrell Owens was served Sunday at UT Chattanooga. Front Office Sports says the service was Friday.

Friday, on Front Office Sports and on Sporting News, and Sunday, on the New York Post, are not the same day. A post Sporting News dates November 6 and a video post it dates November 8 are not the same post. The complaint's account of the death is an allegation in a civil suit. It is not a criminal finding, and the three friends are not named here.

The New York Post, by Edward Lewis, published Nov. 9, 2026, at 2:15 p.m. ET, reported Terrell Owens was served with a federal lawsuit at an event in Chattanooga on Sunday while he was in town for UT Chattanooga's homecoming weekend. It reported a video shared by attorney Edward Andrew Paltzik shows a process server approached Owens at what appeared to be a meet-and-greet, handed off paperwork, and left, and that Owens looked at the documents, put them on a table, and returned to the event. It reported Paltzik wrote, "Terrell Owens, you've been served," and it printed that post with a November 8, 2026 date. Front Office Sports, by Ben Horney, Nov. 9, 2026, at 1:55 p.m. and updated at 2:51 p.m., with no zone on either clock, reported Owens was served on Friday while he waited to sign autographs at a meet-and-greet at the Mocs Bookstore, the bookstore of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, according to a post from Paltzik. It reported Paltzik wrote, "No autograph required," and "Luck always runs out." Friday, on Front Office Sports, and Sunday, on the New York Post, are not the same day. A November 8 date on the video post the New York Post prints is not, by itself, the day of the handoff. Sporting News, by Daniel Mader, on a page that did not print an absolute clock, reported the bookstore appearance was Friday, that Owens was promoting an Amazon documentary called "Terrell & T.O.," and that the clip was shared Sunday evening. It printed a post dated November 6, 2026, in which Paltzik wrote that servers caught up to Owens that afternoon at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Homecoming 2026, at the Mocs Bookstore, and that the video would be available tomorrow. It also printed the "you've been served" post dated November 8, 2026. November 6, November 8, Friday, and Sunday are all on these pages. They are not one clock. Sporting News attributes the Friday handoff to the appearance and prints the November 6 post. Front Office Sports says Friday and does not print November 6 or November 8 in the text fetched here. The New York Post says Sunday and prints November 8.

The New York Post reported Paltzik, alongside lawyer Jarrett Tyler Cox, is representing three friends of Nolan Wells in the federal defamation case. It reported a complaint filed Oct. 5 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi says Owens defamed their clients on social media. It reported the lawsuit says Owens, in a post, linked to an Instagram video that contained an unfounded theory that the three friends were responsible for Wells' death, and that Owens wrote, "ARREST THEM IMMEDIATELY!!" It reported Paltzik said, "Not only is he defaming them, he's basically saying to the mob, get your pitchforks, get your torches." Unfounded theory, in the New York Post's paraphrase, is that paper's characterization of what the complaint describes. It is not a finding. Front Office Sports reported the suit was filed Oct. 5 in Mississippi federal court by the fathers of the three friends of Wells, all of whom are under 21 and therefore considered minors under Mississippi state law. It reported Paltzik, of Taylor Dykema PLLC, told the publication Owens had been evading service. Evading service is the attorney's account to Front Office Sports. It is not a court finding printed on these pages. It reported the Sept. 26 post linked to an Instagram video from The Trent Out Loud Show, which called for the arrest of the three friends and of District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath, and that Owens wrote, "ARREST THEM IMMEDIATELY!!" and "LIKE YESTERDAY!!" The second sentence is Front Office Sports. It is not in the New York Post passage fetched here. It reported the lawsuit describes the post as "false and malicious" and says it features a "devastating and far-reaching defamatory statement about Plaintiffs." It reported the complaint says the post and the video relate to the death of Nolan Xavier Wells at Horn Island on July 4, and that the suit says, "Nolan's death was accidental and involved no criminal activity." That sentence is the complaint, as Front Office Sports reports it. It is not a criminal verdict. The New York Post calls Wells a Black teenager who died after he went missing in Mississippi during a Fourth of July party. Front Office Sports calls him a Black college student who went missing in July and was later found dead. Teenager, and college student, are not the same description. Neither page fetched here prints an age. The three friends are not named in this account. Front Office Sports printed names and called them minors. Those names are not used here.

Front Office Sports reported the suit says there was no evidence to prompt an arrest and no probable cause because they had not committed a crime, that the three have been subjected to "thousands" of death threats, in-person harassment, and "daily fear and ridicule from complete strangers," and that they have been refused service at public establishments. Those sentences are allegations in the complaint as that publication reports them. It reported the suit includes two counts, defamation per se and false light invasion of privacy, and it did not print a damages figure. It reported McIlrath's office issued a report Sept. 22, four days before the Sept. 26 post, that said a grand jury had chosen not to bring any indictments and had exonerated the three friends, and that the report says there is "absolutely no evidence" the death was "racially motivated." Chosen not to bring indictments, and exonerated, are both in that Front Office Sports sentence. They are not the same word. A grand jury's decision not to indict is not a criminal trial. It reported McIlrath said, in a video released with the report, "Nolan's friends loved Nolan, and Nolan loved them." The New York Post story fetched here does not print the grand jury, the two counts, Horn Island, or July 4 as a date on the island. Front Office Sports reported a summons filed Oct. 14 gives Owens three weeks after service to respond. Three weeks from Friday and three weeks from Sunday are not the same deadline. It reported he previously offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible, and that Ben Crump, who is advising the Wells family, said in July he was grateful. The New York Post does not print the reward or Crump. It reported Owens, on Instagram on Sunday, shared a video from a UT Chattanooga basketball game and reposted another video with the caption, "It's still Justice for Nolan Wells." Front Office Sports reported he responded on X Sunday evening, "not worried" and "God is good." Sporting News reported he wrote Sunday night that he is "not worried," and it printed a post dated November 9, 2026, that reads, "Hey Edward. Not worried. God is good." Sunday night, and a post dated November 9, are not the same day on a calendar that has Nov. 9 as Monday. A civil complaint is not a criminal charge and not a finding that the post was false. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.