No response yet from Mark Cuban across any of his social media platforms on the revival of the insider trading allegations that Cuban sold his stock in Canadian search engine Mamma.com to $750 K.

No blog posts on BlogMaverick (no updates, period, since Sep 10., in fact).

No Facebook comments or notes (Cuban is who he is, but he ain’t Palin, at least).

No tweets refuting the reopening of the investigation..but their have been other tweets.

What’s Cuban been up to online recently? Liking an Favoriteing YouTube videos mostly. Like this one: a Dirk fan vs. a Nash fan getting in a catfight (SFW):

Mark, I commend you for acting cool, calm and collected (for now) regarding these allegations. If not for your level of cautiousness in addressing these matters, I might not have seen those two battle it out today.

Court Revives Mark Cuban Insider Trading Case (Reuters)

Proving that Shaq, internet power broker, stands unfettered from his tumultuous last week where he was accused of hacking into and implanting child porn into a former employee’s computer, this morning, @The_Real_Shaq tweeted that he’s auctioning off four tickets to the home opener vs. the Heat on October 26, along with four jerseys.



The auction is part of the @TwitChange campaign, which launched on Sep. 15 as a charity-auction series to support aHomeInHaiti.org. The campaign was created by aHomeInHaiti.org founder Shaun King, and has signed up other Twitter celebs such as @KimKardashian, @JustinBieber and other members of the in-crowd. Check out the bidding war for Shaq’s tickets (currently, $2,550 for the set) and learn more about the cause at the eBay link.

Nice to see that Shaq clearly remembers a time when Googling “hack” and “Shaq” purely yielded YouTube clips of him bricking free throws, as he looks to rise above the pending lawsuit, not to mention the unending speculation that this latest move to Boston is purely Kobe-motivated.

I’ll admit, even after I drafted Steve Breaston in Fantasy this year, I didn’t really care about what Breaston had to say, . Then last week, to everyone’s surprise he went off for 132 yards in the Cards season opener – awarding me a serviceable 13 fantasy points. Now I’m ready to listen.

This week, Breaston gave one of the more authenticate interviews, post-Week One, to his team’s home town rag The Arizona Republic, intimating…

• He likes to always (or at least a lot) eat McDonald’s for his pre-game meal, he prefers sausage-egg mcmuffins and double cheeseburger meals
• He’s part of a non-NFLPA sanctioned gang called the “Backpack Boys” made up of himself Adrian Wilson. Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and Mike Adams
• He follows the code, “You’ve gotta dance with the girl that took you to the prom.” (citing Mike Adams)

Breaston also fancies himself a writer. I look forward to him bringing long-form back on Steven Breaston 15 ((The official page of S.Phantom)) on Facebook. Maybe pen something like “A Possession Wideout’s Guide to the Extra Value Menu” by S.Breaston.

Follow Breaston on Twitter: @SBreaston15

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Steve Breaston reveals talents off field

Realizing the NFL season is nearly a week old, and I haven’t heard a peep out of Warren Sapp. Not one iota of commentary out of the guy. This should not be the case after tonight’s episode of Inside the NFL.

Sapp has never been a blowhard per say, more like jovially opinionated – he appreciates a good josh.

So, I thought it worthwhile to check out what he’s been out lately via his online channels.

His website QBKilla.com, let’s say not exactly a content engine. You can get a nice t-shirt that says QB Killa tho. Available in standard or pink baby-tee, yes zir (as Sapp himself might say).

What his website lacks in, well, multiple pages quite honestly, the Sapp Twitter feed (@QBKilla, naturally) makes up for in offbeat photo content.

Here’s one of a dog (a ridiculous looking dog in an NFL jersey). Here’s one of a short bus.

And…here’s a picture of what I believe Warren Sapp ate recently.

GUH!

His caption reads, “This Is Way I Don’t Eat Chocolate!! No Zirr!!!” If I knew what he meant, I guess I’d be less frightened by what’s on that plate.

Anyway, good luck putting that image out of your brain today. Maybe this Warren Sapp gag reel from 2008 will help…

Roughly 10 days ago, vitaminwater launched a marketing campaign that cast Gary Busey (rarely a bad decision) in a video as Norman Tugwater, Fantasy Sports Lawyer. Shaq and Adrian Peterson were along for the ride, and the results were just kind of funny if you ask me. Nevertheless, like most people who’ve seen Point Break at least 25 times, I decided to stick with the Norman Tugwater experiment – by that I mean follow him on Facebook and Twitter. The results: Tugwater, pretty hilarious. Here’s some of his finest work to date:

To the writer(s) behind Busey’s latest maniacal exploits, I commend you. In fact, I’d enjoy knowing who was behind this, and picking their brain; Who are you? Do you credit Not Gary Busey on Twitter as a source of inspiration? Have you seen Point Break 25 times? Do you feel that Busey’s character, FBI agent Angelo Pappas, carries the first act of Point Break, like I do?

Is your mom on Twitter? If not, I’d say at this point there’s a 25% chance at this point she never will be. However, if she is, there’s at least a 25% percent chance she’s following Chad Ochocinco. I just took a quick gander at Chad’s recently added Twitter followers, and it’s a litany of could be middle aged moms. Thanks, Viacom.

I was interested in hearing about some new athletes out there worth following who, despite showing promise on Twitter, remain obscure, non-mainstream, questionably professional or – best yet – all of the above. I asked a group of my sports blogging constituents to contribute to a quick poll: Who’s the most fringe athlete that you follow? The list is good to the point that it inspired me to go the extra mile and create Fringe Athletes on Twitter Lists*.

First, mine: Gerald McCoy, the Tampa Bay Bucs’ first round draft pick.



I first became engrossed with Gerald on Twitter when he was pointing out his fellow draftees’ “wrist game” on Draft Night. Since then, here’s what Gerald’s been up (according to @GK_McCoy):

1.) He got a Droid
2.) He threw out the first pitch at a USA woman’s softball game vs. Japan
3.) He’s been enjoying the Twilight saga

Thurman Thomas (Isaac, Guyism)

He has over 21,000 Tweets right now, and I’m confident every single one of them occurred after his career ended in 2000. Thurman may be a Hall of Famer, but when it comes to Twitter, he remains largely misunderstood – the man has a Top-5 Stupid List (http://huggingharoldreynolds.blogspot.com/2010/05/thurman-thomas-dares-me-blocks-me-moves.html) and only 7,300 Followers.

The Iron Sheik (Eric, Camel Clutch Blog)

Is your mom on Twitter? There’s an 11% chance she follows the Iron Sheik.

These first two probably weren’t fringe enough for purists, it’s about to get super fringe on this list.

Leonard Weaver (Matt Lo Cascio, Jay Cutler Superstar)

If you didn’t know who Leonard Weaver is professionally (an NFL fullback), you wouldn’t learn from his Twitter bio. He’s currently using that forum to promote the Leonard Weaver Family Foundation (respectable) and ask people to help him name his new dog (sort of ridiculous). He’s currently calling that dog New Baby.

Mix Haxholm (Jared, The Atlantic Wire)

She’s a professional archer. A former Miss Thailand. And was recently named Cosmo’s Fun Fearless Woman. Less than a month into her Twitter tenure, but possessing a tremendous upside as she works towards the 2012 Olympics.

Todd Stottlemyre (Scott Lewis, TheScore.com)




When he submitted this, Lewis called ex-MLB pitcher Stottlemyre “the worst follow going” on account of the fact that he just tweets about stocks all day. I just scanned the feed, most recent conversations were around a recent life-changing Financial webinar that Stottlemyre was involved in.

Don’t worry, I didn’t add him to the Fringe Athletes Twitter list.

Speaking of great submission copy for athletes who probably don’t belong on this here…

Jose Canseco (Sooze, Babes Love Baseball)

“@JoseCanseco isn’t obscure at all, but he’s by far the biggest douchebag/delusional moron I follow on Twitter.” – Sooze





Andre Caldwell (Chris Richardson, Intentional Foul)



How annoyed is Viacom that this tweet only came from the Cincinnati Bengals third string Twitter wide-out?



Marcus Jordan (Ethan Jaynes, NESW Sports)




Michael Jordan’s son who averages 8.0 pp. for the University of Central Florida men’s basketball team – an all-around fringe human being, if you ask me. Worth following,  although he probably peaked during Game 7 of the Finals this season.

Robbie McEwen (Phil, Gunaxin)

This guy is an Australian cyclist, and even if you care very little about him you’ll want to hear what he has to say. Decorum is not his strong suit.



Here’s one linked to a video where he does a lot of effin’. Here’s another one linked to a photo Robbie referred to as “the best picture of the day” from Tour de France, Stage 10.

Dee Gordon (Paul Raymond, My Sports Rumors)

He’s the son of Tom “Flash” Gordon, and according to Raymond, one of the best hitting prospects in the Dodgers organization. Must be something. He’s got one of those fabled verified account with just 603 followers.

Last, but not the least fringe, not by a long shot: Jason Richards (Bob, Detroit For Lyfe)



It’s with a heavy heart that Bob, Davidson alum, submits Jason Richards, but I believe he decided to do it because he knew that Richards was almost too perfect for this list. here’s what he had to say:

“He’s a friend and also the point guard of the Stephen Curry-led Davidson squad that lost in the 2008 Elite Eight to Kansas. He’s the one Curry inexplicably passed to for the final shot that missed just left and crushed our itty bitty school’s hopes of reaching the Final Four.

Jason went on to play for the Miami Heat summer team and fall team after being undrafted. He tore his ACL in a fall practice,but got paid a handsome minimum contract because he was injured on their clock. After rehabbing and living luxuriously off that min. contract, he bounced around between Europe and D-League teams before re-tearing his ACL. All that in the past 2 1/2 years. He is now an assistant coach/film guy for Pitt’s basketball team.”

*Note: As soon as Twitter is not over capacity I’ll finish up that Twitter list.

This week in 1994, New York City kind-of- a rap group Fu-Schnickens released their second album Nervous Breakdown. It featured the hit single What's Up Doc? (Can We Rock) w/ a guest appearance from Shaq Fu, himself.

Shaq's adeptness at inventing halfwords – like alidocious – would not be fully appreciated until later in history…

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Designaddict.com reveals, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games have unveiled the London Olympic pictograms which will be used during the Olympic Games in 2012. All 38 sports of competition are represented. Check out the dynamic and silhouette versions of each, as well as a pic of the London Underground map – the inspiration for the design.

Karate rules, rhythmic gymnastics is a personal favorite.

In 2012, these will be used on signage, merch, etc. at the games. In the meantime, I think one of these will probably serve well as my new Twitter avatar – it’s either going to be rhythmic gymnastics, badminton, or the dead lift.

(H/T @asilentflute)

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No substantial amount of time for blogging today, Dr. Jones.

However, got something in the works that champions classic tunes like this…

Tag any relevant #musicmonday tweets as #slowjams also. If your tweet’s not relevant, make it relevant.

While @Adam_Schefter was busy debunking the myth of @RodneyH37, and subsequently dispelling the rumors of an actual feud between Rodney Harrison and self-proclaimed leader of men Kerry Rhodes (stay savvy, Schefter), something far more compelling was happening in the twitterverse, tweeple…

(Side note: somewhere a kitten was just kicked into a coma because I used “twitterverse” and “tweeple” consecutively.)

I’m talking of course about the emergence of Jerry Jones’ Nose on twitter.

The Double J is kind of a live wire. I don’t see him enjoying his nose’s presence on Twitter. Although whoever set this up makes a solid case for a little creative leeway in the bio:

THIS IS *NOT* REALLY JERRY JONES’ NOSE TWEETING. Its just a random, automated script that’s tweeting as his nose. This is satire. Get a sense of humor.

At this time, @jerryjonesnose has a whopping seven followers. Maybe promotional rich media like this will help populate…

H/T to @mknell for the tip