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Aug 16 2011

Spanning the Twitterverse: The U Bomb

Spanning the Twitterverse to bring you the constant variety of tweets
The thrill of the retweet and the agony of the unfollow
The human drama of the twitter timeline
This is CadChica’s Wide World of Tworts

OY! Where to start? I don’t even know where to start today. I thought it was going to be a fairly tame day today. Or maybe that’s what I was hoping for. With entertaining family the next couple of days, I really wanted a tame day in sports on Twitter. HA!

I read of rumblings over the last few days of a story coming out on the University of Miami. Being as it’s Twitter and I’m not “hooked into” the media, I kind of put it off in the believe-it-when-I-see-it category. On second thought, I had no idea what I was thinking.

In case you haven’t read it, Yahoo! Sports has put together what, by all accounts, appears to be a bombshell of a story about Miami. It is a must read for sports fans, particularly college football fans. And it reminds me of a post I did last month asking the question of college sports fans: How far will you go?.

MY TAKE: I don’t know about anyone else but I’m “almost” to the point, as a fan, where I don’t think ANY program is clean. It’s just impossible to believe you can be successful and clean in BIG TIME college sports anymore. Most in media believe this way already but I’m just a fan. I don’t think most fans think like me. They just want their team to win. Cleanly, is secondary, but win cleanly is a desire. But that’s not going to happen. It’s either one or the other. Not both. 

So. What did the Twitterverse have to say? Sadly, I cannot post all of the great tweets on this topic. Here are just a few:

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A Pac-12 perspective, in light of the USC penalties:

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Big East/SEC perspective:

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Media perspective. Paul Dee, ex-athletic director at Miami, was the Chairman for the Committee on Infractions (COI) when USC was under investigation. Thus, some of the next few tweets are related to this fact:

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And a couple of others regarding this. The first is one from an NFL sports agent. The second is from someone who actually works in a college compliance office. Needless to say, how difficult is that job?

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Lots of speculation out there about what will happen next. Nobody knows other than investigation is going on now by the NCAA. Where will this lead? When will it end? To quote a cliché’, time will tell. 

But until that time comes for Miami, don’t think this is over for any other BIG TIME school. And this tweet below is what I mean:

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Jun 24 2011

Spanning the Twitterverse: Friday Fun Tweets

Spanning the Twitterverse to bring you the constant variety of tweets
The thrill of the retweet and the agony of the unfollow
The human drama of the twitter timeline
This is CadChica’s Wide World of Tworts

Thank God it is finally Friday. My favorite day of the week. No, it’s not because it’s the last day of the work week (I work 7 days a week — seriously, I do). It’s my favorite because it is Friday Fun Tweets time. Today wasn’t as fun as last week but hey, it’s still Friday and there’s still fun to be found.

I spanned the Twitterverse and came up with these “gems” (or not):

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THE NAME IS JOHN?

The newspaper business isn’t what it used to be. But, you would think that a big sports story like winning golf’s U.S. Open, would bring about some close fact-checking but no.

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IS THIS LIKE, THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK?

I’m telling you, the easiest way to understand social media, be it Facebook, Twittter or whatever, is to use some common sense. Unless of course, you don’t have any and then, well…..all bets are off. This story just makes me shake my head.

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ONLY AT WIMBLEDON

This one doesn’t really need explanation, unless of course you don’t know who Serena Williams is. If that’s the case, you’re out of luck (Google it). Aside from that, who would ask this kind of question?

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SO YOU WANT TO BE A MASCOT

Ooh that could be a new reality show!!!  You heard it hear first. Okay networks, call me!!! It’s a brilliant idea. ESPN, are you hearing me? Unless of course you don’t want this to happen to you:

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NO JORDAN, I DON’T WANT TO SIT NEAR YOU

I’m guessing that the Seahawks’ Jordan Babineaux didn’t have Pepcid, Tums or any other antacid at home. Just reading the tweet make my gut hurt.

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I MISS PAUL

For those that don’t remember, Paul the Octopus was the German octopus that correctly predicted games during the 2010 World Cup. If an octopus could roll, I think he’d be rolling in his grave with this tweet:

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NFL: STAND AND _______

The lockout drags on. Negotiations are still ongoing. The Twitterverse is tired of it and so they try to make the best of it.

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TWITTER IS THE BEST FOR:

…facts you won’t get anywhere else. Okay, so you’re tired of me saying it but I LOVE TWITTER. Apparently, I’m not the only one.

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YOU KNOW WE’RE BAD…WE’RE BAD….

Arizona! Bear Down Baby!

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TWEET OF THE NIGHT

For the uninformed, during the basketball season, Klay Thompson thought he had lost his iPod at the hotel room and was late for the team bus. He was benched for the start of Washington State’s game against ASU in Tempe, Arizona. Thus,

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