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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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Nobody (Except the Vikings and the NFL) Thinks Tonight is a Good Idea

By | December 20, 2010 | Athletes on Twitter, Bad calls, Crazy People, Dain Bramage, Football, NBA | 2 Comments

Last week I was listening to sports talk radio (shut up! I can listen to whatever I want!) and one of the Mikes was interviewing Michelle Tafoya, who was complaining about tonight’s Bears-Vikings Monday Night Football game. She was talking about how cold it was going to be at TCF Bank Stadium, and how she thought having the game there was irresponsible and dangerous for the fans, players and of course the sportscasters.

The general consensus was that maybe if a couple of players lost toes to frostbite hopefully the league wouldn’t put everyone through this again.

I was pretty surprised that she would talk about her displeasure so openly, but not nearly as surprised as I was when I saw this:

Damn! Big talk from a punter, no?

I don’t think the NFL and their crazy Commie twitter policy will appreciate that one bit.

Of course, I agree with Chris Kluwe. An outside – divisional – Monday Night Football game – IN LATE DECEMBER. This is a bad idea.

Mr. Warcraft continued:

But then! Just as I suspected.

Oooh! The NFL SS smack down. It was only a matter of time. The National Football League does not suffer fools on Twitter. I’m just waiting for the fine to be levied.

We will see what happens. I’m sure I’ll be watching the game. If Chris Kluwe gets hurt he will be in a phenomenal position to sue the league, the Minnesota Vikings and ESPN.

Sports On Twitter: Body Parts and Fakes Edition

By | December 7, 2010 | Athletes on Twitter, Football, Mascots | 5 Comments

Pittsburgh is a social-media loving town. Our PodCamp kicks ass, there are regular gatherings of parent bloggers, and I’m not sure any city leverages social media for doing good quite like Pittsburgh. We also have some pretty good sports teams (and the Pirates), so it’s only natural that these two worlds should collide.

Sure, there are Pittsburgh athletes tweeting, and the Steelers lead the way with at least twelve current players with accounts, but we now have Troy Polamalu’s hair and Brett Keisel’s beard tweeting. I’m not sure this can be called “taking it to the next level” but that’s what I’m going with.

HarrisonsHits isn’t a body part. I’m not really sure what it is. Let’s go with grammatically-challenged.

NotSteelyMcBeam is not the Steeler’s mascot. Since no one really likes Steely McBeam and his Cowher-esque chin, we like NotSteely better.

And finally, let’s not forget FakeTomlin who doesn’t tweet a lot but is hysterical when he does.

All this is just begging for a Twitter list. What fakes, body parts, or other sports craziness are you seeing on Twitter?

ClumberKim loves her Pittsburgh sports teams. She tolerates the Pirates for the sake of her five year old Yinzer son.

Weekly Sports News Round-Up: The Big Four Edition

By | November 21, 2010 | Athletes on Twitter, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey, NBA, NFL | Comments Off

Here’s the weekly round-up of news from baseball, basketball, football and hockey.

MLB

Derek Jeter Jennifer Anniston Yankees FriendsLike Ross and Rachel from Friends when they took a “break,” the Yankees have agreed that Derek Jeter can talk to other teams. Also like Ross and Rachel, no one expects Jeter to be with anyone else next season. And we all remember what happened with Ross and Rachel.

It seems everyone is unhappy with the way voting for end of season awards ended up. Yankee fans think CC Sabathia should have had the Cy Young. (Frankly, they got three gold gloves and should suck it up.) Pirate fans think Neil Walker should have had more than one vote for Rookie of the Year, and everyone else thinks the Pittsburgh sportswriter who voted for Walker and Jose Tabata shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Bottom line? Stats matter. Sort of.

NBA

Ron Artest wants to play in the NFLThe latest multi-sport wanna be is Ron Artest, who hopes to get an NFL try-out after he retires from basketball. Kobe Bryant isn’t impressed.

Almost nobody noticed Minnesota Timberwolves Kevin Love’s 30-30, the first in the NBA in 28 years. Since they are the Timberwolves, nobody cares. The game wasn’t even on local TV in Minneapolis.

Dennis Rodman made an appearance on CNN’s Parker/Spitzer, following Joe Queenan’s comments about watching the sunrise on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park with a comment about Canadian strip clubs. Non-sequiter much?

NFL

Jeff Reed Steelers kicker cut this week. Paper towel dispensers beware.Steelers kicker Jeff Reed, their franchise player, was cut this week. Many jokes in poor taste ensued. Trust me, they are too awful even for us. Reed has turned down offers so he could take a weekend off. I’d do the same if I were getting $160k a week to duke it out paper towel dispensers, but don’t they get about 30 weekends off a year? Further proof the lights are on but nobody’s home.

Bills’ Rookie C.J. Spiller apologized for a tweet containing a term derogatory toward homosexuals. He’s inactive this week with a hamstring injury and not, presumably, for the tweet.

NHL

NHL VP Colin Campbell finds himself in a hole and keeps on digging. In an interview with Hockeycentral, it’s clear he isn’t going to back down. It’s only a matter of time before the NHL follows the NFL with regard to hits and injuries, probably with the same level of consistency.

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