by Kent on February 14, 2010
As Twitter has quickly become a source many turn to for breaking news in the sports world, we now bring you the best sports tweets of the week as voted by you, our loyal readers. You can vote for the funniest tweet of the week after the jump. Enjoy these tweets and the obnoxious amount of money you are about to spend tonight on Valentine’s Day.
Congrats to Thursday’s winner, Fire_up_Flip510
KleShreen - lmao @ Johnny Damon saying Atlanta is a “dream” for him…when he said Detroit was the same thing last week.
Fire_up_Flip510 – Frank Thomas just retired? I thought that fool been retired LMAO! He been in the league for stoopid long!
sportsminute - Lenny Dykstra is selling stock tips. After you buy those, talk to Tiger Woods for some advice on fidelity.
“It’s been a great year for both Tiger and I. We both screw everyone.”
tlestarjette - I like Chris Berman for the fact that I think he’s been drunk on ESPN since 1979.
BittrScrptReadr – Best thing about the end of Football season? New edition of the SI Swimsuit issue: http://bit.ly/drboSJ You’re welcome.
notsolegato – Peyton Manning signed a deal today with the TN lottery. he’ll be promoting the new “pick 6″ game.
aimclemson – Also, has Erin Andrews asked an original question, ever? Did they just hand her a “book o’ cliches” when they hired her?
More after the jump...
by Kent on February 11, 2010
As Twitter has quickly become a source many turn to for breaking news in the sports world, we now bring you daily highlights from the world of Twitter. Here are your Thursday sports tweets from across the Web for your enjoyment. Be sure to vote for the funniest tweet of the day after the jump.
Congratulations to KleShreen for yesterday’s funniest tweet.
Fire_up_Flip510 – Frank Thomas just retired? I thought that fool been retired LMAO! He been in the league for stoopid long!
bodyart101 – Bad day for teams named the Giants: Antonio Pierce out in NY, Tim Lincecum probably heading for arbitration in San Fran.
edthesportsfan – Man I miss the rookie year version of Amare Stoudemire…he was literally trying to dunk on the entire league. Where is Olowokandi…
“Yes, I used to actually know how to play basketball… now, not so much.”
jasonberra – St. Louis Rams have a brand new owner, and it appears that he’s got a handlebar mustache…awesome.
LiteraryHack – After signing Pacman Jones, Cincinnati will then scout and spend the rest of their salary cap in Folsom State Prison.
luqueeggum – One year ago, Brett Favre told the New York Jets he was done. “It has been a wonderful career,” Favre said. “It’s time to leave.” Gotcha.
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by Kent on February 11, 2010
Jose Canseco took to his Twitter account this afternoon to warn us all of a sketchy character:
Also note, Doug Aimes (I’m assuming his name is not actually Dough) has filed for bankruptcy because he can no longer sustain single dollar memorabilia transactions.
by evan on February 11, 2010
Now that the party from the Super Bowl is dying down everywhere except for booze-addled Bourbon Street and Reggie Bush’s rec room, it’s time for sports fans to turn the page.
Since baseball is still months away, and nobody but Bill Simmons gives a flying crap about the NBA before the end of April, that sort of leaves many of us in a void waiting around for 2 things – the galleries awaiting Tiger Woods at his comeback and… March Madness.
Sure, there’s a possibility I’ll get back together with Elin. If she can make it through my 96-woman, single-elimination hump-a-thon.
That’s right, perhaps the finest 3-week sporting event we have each year and the degenerate gamblers paradise, the NCAA tournament. Except for one problem – they might be on the verge of screwing the whole thing up. Expanding the field to 96 teams?
Hmmm… to me, that makes about as much sense as deciding a national champion using a cryptic mathematical formula nobody seems to particularly understand or like. But hey, leave it to the NCAA to adopt the motto if something isn’t broke, let’s fix it!
We hear that the 96-team tournament would include the New Jersey Nets. That would clinch it for Pitino.
Since I first heard of this confounding 96-teams notion a couple weeks ago, I’ve been racking my brain trying to figure out what possible benefits there could be to expansion. It’s been difficult, but I may have found a few:
- The first-round at-large matchup everybody has been yearning for: Belmont vs. Radford, live from Dayton, Ohio!
- Once and for all, a quick, brutal death for the NIT.
- Extra round means an extra chance for a North Carolina upset, and the chance to see Roy Williams reduced to a weeping mess.
- Screaming, Selection Sunday argument between Dick Vitale and the Committee Chairman, which ends inside a steel cage.
- Plethora of new early-round games leads CBS to create the fun new broadcast team of Doris Burke, Bobby Knight and Larry “pants on the ground” Platt.
Evan Blackwell is an award-winning sportswriter who has covered everything from high school and colleges to the NFL. He now contributes his brand of snark to LesGoldwall.com when he's not watching the best college basketball team in the country &ndash the Kansas Jayhawks, and the worst baseball team in the history of the universe – the Kansas City Royals.
by Kent on February 11, 2010
In case there is any confusion, ESPN is here to clarify:
by john on February 11, 2010
Ran across this quote on ESPN this morning relating to the rumors that Louisville head basketball coach Rick Pitino was interested in the New Jersey Nets job.
“I’m done with coaching professional basketball. I’ve put the professional ranks behind me.”
It just seemed to be missing something….
“…and that’s why the New Jersey Nets are such a good fit for me.”
Fixed.
The Nets? How is that funny? Funny like a clown?
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