After an inauspicious exit in 2009, Brian Wilson is back on Twitter. When did this glorious event occur?
To be precise, Feb 2. I didn’t find out about it until yesterday, March 2nd – when I investigated who Charlie Sheen is following.
Good to have Brian back and currently tweeting shout-outs to area codes and developing Twitter relationships with other crazy guys.
Ryan Clark is definitely worth following on Twitter. He @ replies a lot. He’s got some knowledge (particularly if you’re a spiritual person). And his pontifications are pretty entertaining too. (Why do kickers wear gloves?)
Last night, ESPN reporter Jemele Hill, a fine Tweeter in her own regard, threw out the question: ‘if ur child wanted a Vick jersey for Xmas, would you buy it?’
Clark promptly responded:
Ryan Clark approaches Twitter much in the same way he approaches an opposing receiver’s slant rout – emphatically.
Follow him @RyanClark25
Normally, when a friend IMs me something like, “are you reading the joe budden/fabolous back and forth right now?” I don’t expect the follow up to be that awesome – which makes it awesome when you’re wrong and it is…
Maybe you think that’s hilarious in and of itself (it is). But if you’re interested in the backstory, there was an arrest warrant issued for Joe Budden this morning for not paying his child support.
H/T @ New York Hoosier
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.
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…
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
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.
Somewhere along the way, I’d forgotten that The Ref had a verified Twitter account, that is until he called Stephen Slater a ‘bag nazi’ and a ‘super slider earlier today. I apologize for not paying attention, Denis, because you’re first rate on Twitter; in the past week he hit the nail on the head re Whoopi Goldberg, Eat Pray Love and Snooki.
Yesterday, Leary put it to Alex Rodriguez nicely, using his own brand of scientific analysis to compare A-Rod to the past stars in a series of tweets dubbed ‘If the Old Stars Had Steroids’:
If you’re interested in that old school ‘No Cure For Cancer’ brand of Leary, follow him on Twitter. Also, Rescue Me is starting to pick up this season too if you ask me.
Found via MoneyRies on Tumblr…
Highly serviceable NFL tight end Brent Celek recently hosted a contest for people to design his Twitter background, and someone with highly serviceable MS paint skills won.
I put in an inquiry to @BrentCelek to see who the winner is. Let’s see if I get a response.
Celek is also giving away spots in his Fantasy Football league this year. According to NFLTouchdown.com, 11 of his Facebook fans will get to play Fantasy with Celek this year.
On Saturday, Celek started a contest on his Facebook page where he will pick 11 fans to participate in a fantasy football league with him–but there’s a catch. Instead of picking fans at random, the former Cincinnati Bearcat decided to make it more interesting by having his fans perform tasks to earn a spot in the league.
So far, two contestants–Charles Alexander and Derek Diep–are the first two winners to join Celek in his fantasy league. While Alexander earned a spot by being the first fan to respond to one of Brent’s wall posts, Diep clinched the second spot by being the first to send in a picture of himself wearing Celek’s jersey in front of a stop sign.
Wonder how the NFL’s resident tight end social media expert Chris Cooley feels about Celek trying to take a shot at the title?
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)
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
