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If you aren’t following Ozzie Guillen on Twitter, then you are not maximizing the true value of the social media medium that has forever changed how sports are covered and consumed.
Ozzie’s latest batch of nearly incomprehensible tweets is a rather inspirational soliloquy on perseverance and belief in oneself. It’s the Ozzie Twitter account at its finest.
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Editor’s note: Amanda Lawson is a lifelong Green Bay Packers fan who is getting into baseball for the first time this year. After much deliberation and counsel, Amanda settled on the Minnesota Twins as her team. With “Beginning Baseball” Amanda is documenting her first season of baseball fandom.
Why do people follow sports? Is it the love for a team? Maybe they appreciate the physical talent of the players. What about the passion for the game?
Those are all great reasons to follow a sport. However, there is nothing like the adrenaline rush from competition. The tension and drive during a game against a rival team brings the most exciting action and competition you will see and experience. And competition brings out the best trash talk.
And I am a champion trash talker.
Well…at least when I trash talk football; then I am the champ. Baseball is a little different, another learning curve for me. Since I am a devoted trash talker, I HAD to discover “the art” of being a baseball trash talker.
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If you think the idea of MTV rebooting Teen Wolf as a one-hour television drama is absurd on its face, you’re right. But people had similar feelings when the WB did the same with Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1997, and that turned out all right. (Sarah Michelle Gellar even answered my fan mail with an autographed photo.)
I’m not going to review MTV’s Teen Wolf, though the little I’ve seen so far isn’t as ridiculous as you’d expect. But if you’re a fan of the 1985 movie starring Michael J. Fox, you won’t recognize the 2011 Teen Wolf. MTV and executive producer Jeff Davis have made little effort to be faithful to the source material.
The werewolf gene is no longer hereditary: Scott becomes a werewolf after being bitten by one. There is no Boof character. And Scott doesn’t play basketball; he plays lacrosse.
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Well you knew something like this was coming.
Michigan fans have beaten down by Jim Tressel and their rivals to the south for an entire decade, and now the time for exacting revenge is nigh.
Thanks to today’s Hot Clicks I came across the video below (via The M Zone), which is about as cleverly perfect a visual representation of Tressel’s trouble in Columns as I can imagine. Well done.
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“I’m Keith Hernandez” is one of the funniest and most enduring lines from Seinfeld.
You’ve surely seen the well-known and oft-quoted episodes of the show that featured the former Mets great, and you probably laughed quite heartily at them – especially the “Spitting Incident” episode that very well may be the greatest single episode of Seinfeld ever (though “The Contest” has a good argument too).
But have you ever stopped to think about what made Keith Hernandez such a compelling subject for the greatest sitcom of the 90s? Especially if you are not a native New Yorker, the allure of Hernandez may well have been lost on you. It was for me.
But not anymore.
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The new Bill Simmons writing project, Grantland, which I am very excited about, launches today.
I will be very disappointed if this is not a superb, must-read site with the who’s who of great online and offline writers Simmons has assembled.
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I mentioned Reddit often. It’s with good reason. Reddit is one of my favorite websites, and I go there often to find the latest and greatest content being passed around the web.
Reddit can be an especially entertaining place in the immediate aftermath of a big sporting event. The aftermath of Game 4 was no different. Here are a few examples:
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Quick review of the format for the weekly waiver wire watch:
Again, these percentages are found on Yahoo! Fantasy Baseball.
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It was announced yesterday that Terrelle Pryor has decided to leave Ohio State before the start of his senior season.
Speaking for nearly all of OSU fans, all I can say to him is “don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”
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Terrelle Pryor recently announced that he will not return to OSU for his senior season. He now has to figure out what he will do with his life.
He is banking on his future career in football, but he will need to learn a few things before that is even a possibility.
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For awhile now I’ve been meaning to do a screencast for our awesome team of authors here at MSF to show them how they can see their individual pageview numbers with Google Analytics. I finally got around to doing it today, but instead of just keeping it private I’m going to post it here for anyone to see because I don’t know if everyone knows how to track custom variables with Google Analytics.
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The Tiger Woods tumble continues as the golfer will not play at the U.S. Open in two weekends, meaning one more chance to inch closer to Jack will go by the wayside.
HELP: This is 20-year old IU student Lauren Spierer, still missing June 3rd
If you have been on Twitter the last few days you have probably seen people passing around tweets and this picture of Lauren Spierer, a 20-year old IU student with a heart condition requiring daily medication who has been missing since June 3rd.
I am re-posting the picture here simply to get it as much attention as possible, and I encourage you to pass the picture around to as many people as possible. You never know who could see it and have a sliver of information that could lead to finding her.
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