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Wayne Gretzky’s Daughter Closes Her Totally Skanky Twitter Account

By | November 30, 2011 | Athletes on Twitter, NHL | Comments Off
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Paulina Gretzky, daughter of hockey great Wayne Gretzky and Janet Jones has deleted her Twitter account. I know, Taps is playing in my head too. Let us all bow our heads and have a moment of silence for this tragic loss of trashy tweets. Read more…

NBA Lockout Means No Halloween Candy

By | November 3, 2011 | Athletes on Twitter, NBA | Comments Off
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NBA players are going through rough times right now. They’re in the middle of a lockout that has cancelled all regular season games through at least November, and they’re not getting paid. It’s being reported that some players have had to take side jobs to pay the bills and others are just finding ways to cut back until a check is coming in again. They may be waiting a while. Read more…

Heat Owner Fined $500,000 for a Tweet

By | November 1, 2011 | Athletes on Twitter, Bad calls | Comments Off
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The NBA fined Micky Arison, owner of the Miami Heat, $500,000 this week for for a few tweets he posted.

What could possibly cost half a million dollars in fines, you ask?

This.

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Kyrie Irving: Draft Day Maybe

By | April 18, 2011 | Athletes on Twitter, College Basketball, Drafts, NBA | Comments Off

Duke freshman phenom point guard Kyrie Irving announced he would leave school and enter the upcoming NBA draft on April 6. And then the Minnesota Timberwolves finished their season with a spectacularly awful record of 17 – 65.

Not five minutes after the last game in the Timberwolves miserable season ended, Kyrie Irving started having very public second thoughts. He has since deleted the tweet you see above, retweeted by CanisHoopus, and preserved forever by a member of the Timberwolves mailing list who happened to be out of the country and not updating his twitter feed regularly.

Now I don’t think I would want to go play in Minnesota either. The weather is cold, the team hasn’t had a respectable season in forever, and did I mention the weather is cold? But he’s going to have to show up in Target Center eventually.

Apparently Kyrie has failed to learn the lesson I have taught many an undergraduate in the 20+ years I have spent employed in higher education:  Beware the toes you step on today, as they may be attached to the ass you need to kiss tomorrow. The fans in Minneapolis (all dozen or so of them) will remember, whether he is there in a Timberwolves uniform or not.

ClumberKim has been the ListMOM for the Minnesota Timberwolves mailing list for fifteen years. It’s all Christian Laettner’s fault.

Is This Embarrassing, Amar’e?

By | March 3, 2011 | Athletes on Twitter | Comments Off

You know, I make spelling and grammar errors on Twitter every now and then. Sometimes I hit the wrong key, sometimes I accidentally use the wrong affect/effect (truth: I still don’t know the difference) and sometimes I am just drunk. It is mildly embarrassing, but those tweets get buried. It isn’t a big deal.

But what if I was a famous basketball player? What if I was trying to say something nice about Serena Williams and support her as she recovers from two emergency surgeries? What if I screwed up a tweet and  100 people retweeted it in the 38 minutes after I tweeted it?

What if I was Amar’e Stoudemire?

That might be embarrassing.

Then again, it might not be that big of a deal to a guy who made over $16 million last year and whose name ends in an apostrophe’e.

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