All you Knickerbocker fans sweating it out today waiting for The Decision, should it not go your way, relax. Former Knick and current member of the team’s front office, Allan “The Allan Houston Rule” Houston is not worried.

According to the Greenwich Time, when asked about Lebron coming to the Knicks, Houston told a GT photographer this morning, “If we don’t get him, it’s not the end of the world.”

I’d say that ranks somewhere between lacking and devoid of on the confidence scale, New York.

However, take stock in the fact, Knicks fans, that the only reason we have to believe that Allan Houston was ever in the know was that for a fleeting couple of hours we thought that the press conference might happen at his house. Don’t let yourself get too wrapped up in what he says (or Chad Ochocinco…or Jared Dudley).

Check out New York’s last-ditch effort to get Lebron on DIME.

The Business of Sports threw up a post today championing the twitter usage of the Worldwide Leader. As much as I’d like to tear it down, and say they’re just using it as a megalo-rss feed, I can’t really do that (BLAST!) As BofS points out, ESPN is actually engaging it’s audience kindof on twitter. For example, Both the PTI and the Around The Horn twitter handles are inviting viewers to ask questions via the platform. For instance, @PTIshow put up a post yesterday asking viewers to suggest a guest for today’s show. Additionally, ESPN Regional Television created @Big12Network for fans to get updates on conference tournament happening – I badly wish The Big East was doing this.

Without letting them get off scott free, of the seven twitter IDs that Business of Sports highlights (minus the true ESPN.com feeder ID @ESPN) the follower to following ratio is about 10 to 1. And I hate, hate, hate to admit it, but Plaschke is the one doing the best job of joining in the fray (1,419 followers; following 1186). So, hop to Reali and fantasy guy Matthew Berry! (Fantasy Guy Matthew Berry gets special commendation for setting his location as Sadly, CT.)

Link: ESPN and Twitter


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