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Which 2013 NFL Draft Prospect Supposedly Tweeted So Much That A Team Lectured Him In A Meeting?
Sports Illustrated’s Kalyn Kahler has a long, detailed story out today over at the MMQB about the pitfalls and importance of scrubbing old tweets from NFL prospects ahead of the draft. There’s a lot of work that goes into preventing another Josh Allen situation. Sometimes, it’s fruitless, and other ...

Tragic Death Of Player Naturally Turns Georgia Tech Coach's Mind To Recruiting
Georgia Tech senior defensive lineman Brandon Adams passed away suddenly on Saturday. Police said the 21-year-old collapsed near campus, and was taken by friends to a local hospital, where he died. Tributes to the young man poured in, and you can read many of them here, from his teammates and coache...

The Skins Heard You Love Rob Ryan So They Put A Rob Ryan In Your Rob Ryan
Earlier today, Washington’s football team named Rob Ryan its inside linebackers coach. Linebacking is a skill that cannot be coached by just one man! They announced the hiring of the longtime NFL defensive coordinator with a press release and a tweet. The latter is what I’m interested in here....

Daniel Radcliffe Once Again Presented The Deadspin Award For Worst Tweet Of 2018
$3.14 million: Value that GMG garnered from Daniel Radcliffe’s video appearance, while reading tweets, at the 2018 Deadspin Awards on December 5th (CNN, Fox Business, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX), according to @ApexMGAnalytics....
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This Is Probably How The Cubs Ended Up With Porn In An Old Tweet [Update]
Back when Twitter was more of a novelty than a platform for self-promotion and anemic feuds, no one really paid attention to a pro sports team’s tweets. They were usually clinical updates on games, and occasionally the Chargers’ expressing a desire to go to P.F. Chang’s. (The shift in voice was spur...

Nationals' Sean Doolittle Does Some Good And Wise Tweets
Nationals reliever Sean Doolittle, whose teammate is one of three prominent baseball players recently found to have a history of homophobic and/or racist Twitter behavior, spent a portion of his Monday off constructing a thoughtful series of tweets on casual bigotry, baseball, and social media:...

The Value Of Public Shaming
The bad old tweets are an increasingly permanent component of the news cycle: An athlete does something good—has a good run of appearances, or gets drafted, or, say, loses a no-hitter with two strikes to go—and someone looks up his very old (and very public) tweets, which are racist and/or homophobi...

Josh Allen Called Stephen A. Smith At 2 A.M. To Apologize For His Racist Tweets
Last night, top NFL draft prospect Josh Allen joined the long list of young athletes who have seen their old, problematic tweets resurfaced. Yahoo compiled the since-deleted tweets, which were sent between 2012 and 2013, when Allen was still a teenager....

Jay Feely Shares, Regrets Sharing Photo Of Him Intimidating Daughter's Prom Date With A Gun
The joke at the heart of this prom photo is an old and basically harmless one—a father saying listen, young man, if you step out of line with my daughter tonight I will do you great harm is the setup of the best scene in Spider-Man: Homecoming and countless sitcom episodes—but someone should’ve poli...

Rafael Palmeiro, 1996
[Keep up with its progression, and if the Fox Sports Radio host keeps the tweet up, here. Track your own Twitter Triple Crown candidates here.]...
