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The Big Lead: UCLA’s Randall Carroll The Latest to Send Account Deactivating Tweet
SPORTSbyBROOKS: More Glorious Twitter Fail: UCLA’s Randall Carroll
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Add, Norm Chow's bad week: if ya missed it, the nasty tweet story involving UCLA ...http://bit.ly/30zwY1 10/28/2009 |
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Y? Nobody's paying attention anyway RT @dsportsdaily:"Coach Neuheisel said we need to watch what we say in (twitter)" http://bit.ly/36pvZ5. 10/26/2009 |
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Yikes. RT @DufresneLATimes: Wow: twitter, ucla, chow, player and a racial slur. http://bit.ly/2i6QHL 10/25/2009 |
UCLA’s Randall Carroll The Latest to Send Account Deactivating Tweet
The Big Lead —
... Carroll said.
Actually, the technical term is tweets. We were looking for tweets. Carroll went on to explain that he was simply frustrated and tired of losing, and didn’t mean any disrespect to Chow. His account is of course now deleted, which means we’ll be forced to wait for approximately 16 minutes for another athlete to tweet something something stupid.
Tweet from UCLA player’s account uses racial epithet for Norm Chow [L.A. Times]
More Glorious Twitter Fail: UCLA’s Randall Carroll
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... , but he’s deleted Carroll’s tweet. Blowback, via the LOS ANGELES TIMES :“I was frustrated, tired of losing,” Carroll said Saturday after UCLA’s 27-13 loss to Arizona. “I wasn’t trying disrespect Norm Chow in any way. . . . He was one of the reasons I came here. I was just saying I didn’t feel like he trusted us, because we are such a young bunch. I wasn’t downgrading his coaching.” As a senior at Los Angeles Cathedral High, Carroll was the focus of an intense recruiting battle between UCLA and USC. The former state sprint champion, who originally committed to USC before ...
UCLA wideout tweets racial slur
Digital Sports Daily —
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If you are an athlete of any notoreity your every Tweet will be followed, disected.
Hence that is why UCLA head football coach Rick Neuheisel told freshmen wide receiver to watch what he wrote on his Twitter page. A page that has since been deleted.
On Thursday Carroll used a racial slur to describe UCLA offensive coordinator Norm Chow.
The Tweet in context is included in the the full story by the LA Times.
“Randall has already said to me that he ...
Headlinin': This week in lamentable SEC officiating
Dr. Saturday —
... • Thou shalt not tweet your mind. Hyped freshman Randall Carroll stunned everyone in February by opting for UCLA over USC, but he's been quiet so far for the languishing Bruins, and his Twitter advice to one of this year's most sought-after L.A. recruits, Dietrich Riley, ...
Reporters Notebooks
The Wiz of Odds —
... Chris Foster, Los Angeles Times: A Twitter message from UCLA freshman receiver Randall Carroll's site to a top Southern California recruit used a racial epithet to criticize Bruin offensive coordinator Norm Chow. ...
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