Shaq Is Now On Twitter (for real)
Sportaphile — There’s no doubt that Shaq is the funniest, most entertaining athlete to listen to since Muhammad Ali. So I was very excited this morning when I learned that Shaquille O’Neal is now using twitter, and it’s just a matter of time before something funny pops up. Click here to see Shaq’s Twitter account. You can also view Sportaphile on Twitter by clicking here. I don’t use my Twitter account that much though, I always forget that its there. By anyways, while we’re on the subject of Shaq, his new ESPN ...

The Real Shaq Is Twittering
Half-Blog Half-Amazing (An NBA Blog) — I’m excited.  I’m probably more excited about this than you are.  That’s ok.  I’m passionate about the NBA and social media, so shaq starting his own twitter account is big news to me.  SHAQ IS TWITTERING. According to Alana G, there was a shaq impostor on twitter a few weeks ago.  The diesel got so mad that he started he own twitter account (@the_real_shaq).  I’ve pasted a screenshot of his tweets.  They are fantastic.  I’ve blogged before that athletes should embrace twitter.  Amazing to see it happening. Share and Enjoy: ...

Thursday 11/20 A.M. Quickie:Ball St, Moose, AI, Oden, Twitter, More
Dan Shanoff — So Shaq is on Twitter. What do you think it would take to get him to follow me? (If you're on Twitter, you can follow me @danshanoff) OK, I love that Ball State is having an undefeated season. I'm sure Whitlock is beside himself. But there's a huge difference between appreciating their unbeaten season and finding them BCS-worthy, which they are not. That's near the top of today's SN column. If all it takes to be BCS-worthy is being undefeated, then any/every BCS-conference team -- particularly the ones who can't crack the BCS -- would be smart to drop out of their conference, ...

Thursday for suresday roundup
The Sports Culture — Four rules for the men’s locker room (Holy Taco) Erin Andrews is not going to Hollywood (Busted Coverage) Munster vs. The All Blacks (Walker Sports) Shaq Twitters? (Twitter) Roller Derby is brutal, but kinda hot (Steady Burn) The time Street Ball tried to kill the NBA (Talk Hoops) Andray Blatche Stinks, Literally (Truth about it)

The Real Shaq Revealed: Dude Loves Food
Can't Stop The Bleeding — For most of us, being impersonated isn’t that big a risk. Well, outside of identity theft, but someone in Eastern Europe trying to buy a bunch of gaudy jewelry online using my credit card doesn’t really seem like impersonation. Also, the joke’s on you, Miroslav, because my credit limit’s like $400. So obviously enjoy not getting those anklets. At any rate, yeah: there’s no one out there authoring similarly undisciplined but not-actually-by-me blog posts under my byline. At one point, I think someone impersonated Joel Hunt and/or Rog in the CSTB comments section (I might also be ...

Tonight: Greg Oden and Shaquille O'Neal go head-to-head for the first time
NBA Noise — Tonight, the Portland Trail Blazers (8-5) head to Phoenix to take on the Suns (8-5). While the Blazers are hot right now, having won their last two games in blowout fashion, they have lost their last eight games in Phoenix. The Suns on the other hand, have lost their last two games and are looking to get back on track. These storylines aside, everyone's eyes will be glued squarely on the first matchup between the perennial powerhouse - Shaquille O'Neal and the burgeoning rookie behemoth - Greg Oden. O'Neal appears to be rejuvinated this year, averaging a solid 15 ppg and 8 rpg in about 27 minutes of play. ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Blazers
Fanster.com — Phoenix Suns vs. Portland Trailblazers 8-5 8-5 7:00PM Mountain / 9:00 PM Eastern TV: FSNAZ HD Probable starters: ...

Shaq to meet Fake Shaq. Letterman or Leno?
Fanster.com — Shaq's PR crew has decided that this little Sock Puppet Shaq fiasco is worthly of late night comedy and are seeking to arrange a meet up with The_Real_Shaq and Not_ShaqONeal. The big question appearantly is if this epic face to face death match between the 7'1" 325lb Real Shaq and phoenix area marketing man Ward Andrews (reportedly a former state Chess Champ) should take place on Letterman or Leno. Do you care? Obviously someone does and is looking for your input. Go Vote. As far as I am concerned, the more times I get to use this image the better. Let's keep ...

Shaq to meet Fake Shaq. Letterman or Leno?
Bright Side Of The Sun — Shaq's PR crew has decided that this little Sock Puppet Shaq fiasco is worthly of late night comedy and are seeking to arrange a meet up with The_Real_Shaq and Not_ShaqONeal. The big question appearantly is if this epic face to face death match between the 7'1" 325lb Real Shaq and phoenix area marketing man Ward Andrews (reportedly a former state Chess Champ) should take place on Letterman or Leno. Do you care? Obviously someone does and is looking for your input. Go Vote. As far as I am concerned, the more times I get to use this image the better. Let's keep ...

Weakened Review, ex-Blazers on the move
Deceptively Quick — ... call him Cat?) and Tim Thomas. Hoop Fam! P.J. (Peej!) got fired freed from coaching the Oklahoma City Clay-Bennett-Is-An-Assholes. [ESPN] Unless he assassinates a world leader, Carlesimo will always be known for getting choked by a player that was just trying to feed his family. Shaq vs. Oden! Showdown! Not really. Shaq responded to the Oden hype by pulling out a vintage performance and dropping vintage quotes afterwards. He probably even LOL'd about it on his twitter. Portland came off blowing out Chicago by blowing ...

The 10-man rotation, starring The Big Twitter
Ball Don't Lie — A look around the league and the web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out. C: Mashable, via MPS. Harassing Shaq on Twitter could land you a phone call from the big guy. PF: Bullets Forever, via Mr. Irrelevant. This year's Wizards' throwbacks are super fugly. SF: Out Of Left Field. Matt Bonner apparently wants to play on ...

Reading Shaq's Twitter has not yet gotten old
Deceptively Quick — I admit I was probably a little too excited when news broke that Shaq was twittering away. Even worse, I have yet to get over it. It is all too perfect. Shaq and Twitter really are the true power couple of the NBA. Shaq is more than a simple basketball player. He, like the Onion, has many layers. Or like a tetrahedron, has many sides. You see. Just a sample: Wisdom: ...

10 NBA People Who Need To Get on Twitter
Both Teams Played Hard — As everybody knows by now, Shaq is on Twitter. And he loves it. The dude updates constantly, even dropping this tweet just a few hours before last week’s game against the Lakers THE_REAL_SHAQ Sittin next to steve nash, tryna get him to join twitter ...

The Big Twitterer
The Painted Area — I hadn't signed up for Twitter up until a couple days ago, as I'd found that updating my Facebook status served a similar purpose sufficiently for my needs. So, what pulled me in? Well, I couldn't resist after reading Howard Beck's story in the New York Times about how Shaquille O'Neal has quickly become a prolific Twitterer in the last week, after discovering that there was an impostor registered as "ShaquilleONeal" sending out "tweets" employing language sufficiently "Shaqalicious" to serve as a reasonably passable impersonation of the Big Aristotle. Now THE_REAL_SHAQ, as he is calling ...

Shaq's Twitter Feed: We Can Dig It
The Sporting Blog — Shaquille O'Neal is twittering, and if you are not familiar with the art of microblogging you may let the fascinating blurbs bubbling up from the mind of the Big Aristotle be your freshman 101 in the subject. Shaq must be Barack Obama -- addicted to his mobile device of choice, because he's actually a fairly frequent poster with a wide-ranging and unpredictable reach for topic and commentary. There's humanitarian Shaq: On my way to oklahoma city, gettin ready to send 2 million lbs of peanut butta to africa Then, joke-y Shaq: Im wearing a jacket dat says 1946, a ...

Twittering Suns vs. the Thunder City College Team
Bright Side Of The Sun — Your Phoenix Suns vs. Oklahoma City Thunder 9-5 1-13 ...

Twittering Suns vs. the Thunder City College Team
Fanster.com — Your Phoenix Suns vs. Oklahoma City Thunder 9-5 1-13 6:00PM Mountain / 8:00 PM Eastern TV: My45 HD  ...

Shaq on Twitter - Ten Things Shaq Might Say
Dejuiced! Sports News with No Boundaries — Shaquille O’Neal, the bigger than life center of the Phoenix Suns, has a Twitter account. Yes, Shaq is on Twitter. If you are on Twitter, you suddenly probably don’t feel so geeky updating your every move throughout the day. Here are ten things Shaq might say on Twitter: 1. Steve Nash actually prefers American bacon. 2. Amare Stoudemire is actually his illegitimate son. 3. Hewas the one behind Dwyane Wade’s misspelling. 4. After his playing career, he wants to be a free throw coach. 5. If his law enforcement career doesn’t work out, Shaq would become ...

What I'm thankful for - NBA edition
NBA Noise — ... Shaquille O'Neal is on Twitter. Nothing is better than getting short updates from Shaq himself. You never know what's going to come out of his crazy mouth. Imagine if Twitter was around during the Wilt Chamberlain era - that would be interesting to say the least. ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Nets
Bright Side Of The Sun — Phoenix Suns vs. New Jersey Nets 11-6 8-7 6:00PM Mountain / 8:00 PM ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Nets
Fanster.com — Phoenix Suns vs. New Jersey Nets 11-6 8-7 6:00PM Mountain / 8:00 PM Eastern TV: FSNAZ HD Probable starters: ...

Shanoff's Wake-Up Call: Twitter, Plax, SEC
The Sporting Blog — ... or earnestness (Oden). Still: It's a bit too much work. All those posts. (Unless a media company is sponsoring you.) Now: It's Twitter. 140 characters, max — called "tweets." They can update from their laptop or their phone and have it show up on their Twitter page or blog or Facebook. And it is entirely digestible by their fans — in fact, you only see it if you're "following" them (or the media picks up the tweets). Shaq is addicted to Twitter. He has 169 updates in his first two weeks. ...

Shaq Loves Ryan Clark's Hit on Wes Welker
Pittsburgh Sports and Mini Ponies - Pittsburgh Sports Videos, Humor and Crack Analysis. And Ridiculously Small Horses — [image] Last month, there was tons of hoopla surrounding a fake Twitter page that claimed to be from Shaquille O'Neal. It ended up being exposed as a farce, but it forced the real Shaq's hand, and made The Big Aristotle open his own, official Twitter page. You can read it here . The Diesel is using a combination of text messages and computer typing to update his ever-changing status, and it's apparent that he made the right career choice. Writing isn't his strong suit, but he did throw out some support to a certain, beleaguered Steeler via text message . November 30 - Did u c hit dat hit yan clark put ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Hornets
Fanster.com — Phoenix Suns vs. New Orleans Hornets 11-7 9-6 6:00PM Mountain / 8:00 PM Eastern TV: My45 HD Probable starters: ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Hornets
Bright Side Of The Sun — Phoenix Suns vs. New Orleans Hornets 11-7 9-6 6:00PM Mountain / 8:00 PM ...

Fun With Technology
Just A Nats Fan — Hey y’all, MissChatter here for a fun post! Where have I been? Why playing on Facebook , Twitter , and all those other mind-boggling “ social network ” thingies that keep cropping up all over the place. Google is even getting in on the game by starting their own networking product (which of course, I went and stuck on my lifestream for the heck of it - please join, I’m not even sure how it works!). At first, I didn’t get these new-fangled things. Of course, there’s not much to get when you don’t have much of a “network” to speak of. But as family, friends, and acquaintances signed on and ...

Suns drop 4th straight to Mavs 112 - 97 (but it really wasn’t even that close)
Fanster.com — Hey Suns fans. I have some good news to share with you. While I was letting the stench of this game be washed away by Michael Scott and Liz Lemon I heard from someone who is feeling worse then you are. And I quote: Whatthe hell is wrong wit da suns - @The_Real_Shaq Don't you feel better now knowing that The Big Champion is struggling right there with you? He feels your pain. He's asking for your input. Shaq wants to know - whatthe hell is wrong wit da suns. Oh Shaq, where to start... It might be that your team mates aren't really playing much ...

Suns drop 4th straight to Mavs 112 - 97 (but it really wasn't even that close)
Bright Side Of The Sun — Hey Suns fans. I have some good news to share with you. While I was letting the stench of this game be washed away by Michael Scott and Liz Lemon I heard from someone who is feeling worse then you are. And I quote: Whatthe hell is wrong wit da suns - @The_Real_Shaq Don't you feel better now knowing that The Big Champion is struggling right there with you? He feels your pain. He's asking for your input. Shaq wants to know - whatthe hell is wrong wit da suns. Oh Shaq, where to start... It might be that your team mates aren't really playing much ...

Forlorn Sun, via Twitter
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — In the last few hours, the "Real Shaq," widely reported to be Shaquille O'Neal, has written: If you cant command then u must learn to follow, but what if u aint winning when u listen, then what???????? And: Whatthe hell is wrong wit da suns More confirmation of what Steve Nash told ESPN's Marc Stein last night: "Right now, we're in a dark place." The Suns lost badly to the Mavericks last night.

The One Thing Shaquille O'Neal and I Have in Common
Third Quarter Collapse — Just like Shaq, Third Quarter Collapse is now on Twitter. You can follow it at the previous link, or in the widget in the left sidebar on the main page. Ideally, I can use Twitter to update the site on the fly when I don't have computer access, such as when I'm at a game. If the idea backfires, I'll just remove the feed from the sidebar. That's all. Thanks to Stan from Bright Side of the Sun, SB Nation's Phoenix Suns blog, for the tech support.

The PLAYOFF Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals [Weekly Buzzsaw Countdown]
Deadspin — Of all the pictures taken during The Buzzsaw That Is The Arizona Cardinals' NFC West-clinching "win" over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday, that one there is my favorite. It is somehow perfect that, when the Arizona Cardinals won their first division championship since 1975 (the year I was born!), the most sophisticated signage they'd have ready would be something a player wrote in magic marker on the back of a towel. Yep! (You can find all the pictures right here, lest the Arizona Republic get mad at me for blatantly stealing borrowing their photo.) I watched ...

Worst of the Night: December 9, 2008
Basketbawful — Could LeBron look any more bored on this dunk. It'slike he's thinking about his grocery list or something... The Toronto Raptors: Well, well, well...maybe Sam Mitchell wasn't the problem after all. Since Toronto management launched Mitchell into low Earth orbit, the Raptors have gone 0-3, losing by a combined 48 points. Their latest 114-94 setback to the Cavaliers -- who apparently, as a team, swallowed one of those glowing Super Mario stars -- apparently illustrates where the dinos are as a team, as brilliantly ...

NBA Gets Trade Happy
RealClearSports - Blog — Not wanting to be outdone by the moves MLB is making, David Stern forced two NBA trades today. First, the Wizards, Hornets and Grizzlies completed a three-team deal, with guards Javaris Crittenton and Mike James going to Washington, Antonio Daniels joining New Orleans, and Memphis acquiring a first-round draft pick. Later in the day, the Suns and Bobcats laughed at the mediocrity of that trade and completed their own. Phoenix is saying goodbye to Boris Diaw and Raja Bell (and rookie Sean Singletary), and saying hello to Jason Richardson (and Jared Dudley and a 2010 second-round pick). Last week, Shaq ...

HBHA’s Conversation With The Detroit Pistons Social Media Team!
Half-Blog Half-Amazing (An NBA Blog) — Big day here at HBHA – We just finished emailing with the guys leading the social media charge for the Detroit Pistons!  Pretty exciting stuff and further proof that Twitter can connect franchises with fans. Here is the story: A few weeks ago, I got an email saying that @DETpistons was following me on Twitter.  I followed them back and immediately sent a DM asking if they were legitimate representatives of the Detroit Pistons.  There are a lot of phonies in Twitter land (not you Shaq!) and I didnt want to waste my time following the tweets of an impostor.  Long story short, the team behind ...

Grierson And Leitch, At The Movies [Weekly Buzzsaw Countdown]
Deadspin — When I was in high school, I wanted to be Roger Ebert when I grew up. I'm not sure this is a particularly healthy person for a 15-year-old to emulate. Nothing against Mr. Ebert, who will probably end up being the most important journalistic voice in film of this century, and probably the last one as well. (And seriously, if you're not reading his non-film work, you're missing out as well.) But I probably should have wanted to be Ozzie Smith, or Kevin Costner, or Bruce Springsteen, or someone who actually did something rather than writing about people who did something. The only reason I wanted ...

For Lance, Intimidation = Twitter + Cameraphone
Sports Crackle Pop — This week Jimmy Fallon from SNL-fame joined the growing number of celebrities and athletes, such as Shaq and Lance Armstrong, who are using Twitter for self-promotion. If there’s anything that I’ve learned from following these guys, it’s that Shaq is in love with himself (and can’t spell) and that Lance Armstrong has found that Intimdation = Twitter + Cameraphone. If you follow Lance, you’ll know that: Nike made a new mold of his foot for a custom shoe Trek has built him a new bike SRAM ...

Shaq: ‘I Could Average 27 and 10 in This League Easily’
SLAM Online — by Marcel Mutoni Shaquille O’Neal is having himself a fine season. The big fella is dropping in just under 16 points a game, snatching nearly 9 boards, and taking the more than occasional day off to rest. It’s not a bad deal. Shaq, being Shaq, believes he could be doing more. A lot more. Like, say, putting up historical numbers like he used to do in a former life. From the Arizona Republic: “I could average 27 and 10 in this league easily,” O’Neal said. “Easily. In this conference, in this ...

Suns at Portland, Pre-pregame
Deceptively Quick — You know the Phoenix Suns must be in town when you get an evening text from a friend saying they are looking at Shaquille O'Neal in a downtown coffee shop, and that he is indeed "very large." ...

Suns Ad Wizards Are Ahead of Their Time
Both Teams Played Hard — ... But even with all these changes over the past few years, the Suns stand alone as the one franchise that’s ahead of the curve. In addition to essentially the entire Suns staff actively promoting/cheering for the team every day (led by @The_Real_Shaq and @ ...

Blaze of Glory - 12/18
Blaze of Love — The Blaze of Glory is your almost-daily link list of Blazer ridiculousness and info. If you ever have anything to add to it, make sure to drop us a line unless your name is Dwight Jaynes. (Kidding!) Shaq is tweeting from Portland.  [Shaq's Twitter] Oden ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Blazers
Bright Side Of The Sun — Phoenix Suns vs. Portland Trailblazers 15-10 16-10 8:30PM Mountain / ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Blazers
Fanster.com — Phoenix Suns vs. Portland Trailblazers 15-10 16-10 8:30PM Mountain / 10:30 PM Eastern TV: TNT HD Probable starters: ...

That internets that never stop giving
Fanster.com — Oh my heaven is this a holiday gift for the ages or what! First we have Shaq tweeting away and now this - Amare blogging! Looking at our team’s stats, the offensive rebounding was down, so that’s where my emphasis has been. For the past couple games, I think my play has improved and speaks for itself. No one can speak for you better big guy. You grab your keyboard and fly! Even better, this comes just moments after we learned that bloggers are going to be the death of all GM's. You have to think Kerr is ...

That internets that never stop giving
Bright Side Of The Sun — Oh my heaven is this a holiday gift for the ages or what! First we have Shaq tweeting away and now this - Amare blogging! Looking at our team’s stats, the offensive rebounding was down, so that’s where my emphasis has been. For the past couple games, I think my play has improved and speaks for itself. No one can speak for you better big guy. You grab your keyboard and fly! Even better, this comes just moments after we learned that bloggers are going to be the death of all GM's. You have to think Kerr is ...

Suns Tweetup Contest - Free T Shirt! (and suns tix)
Bright Side Of The Sun — And you thought Twitter was a silly fad.... Well now you can take your silliness to a Suns game w/ thousands (or tens) of other Suns tweeps (That's people who twitter. Get it?). I've beeen Twittering @phoenixstan since July when I NEEDED a way to "talk" to you all from the Vegas Summer Leauge. I found twitter to be a quick way to provide updates via my Blackberry and have them show up on this blog. Kind of like remote comments. Well, now I twitter about all kinds of things and just like here am part of a twitter community. Part of that community is a good part of the Suns ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Nuggets
Bright Side Of The Sun — Phoenix Suns vs. Denver Nuggets 15-11 17-9 7:00PM Mountain / 9:00 PM ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Nuggets
Fanster.com — Phoenix Suns vs. Denver Nuggets 15-11 17-9 7:00PM Mountain / 9:00 PM Eastern TV: FSN HD Probable starters: ...

Mike James embarrasses hisself on National TV
Fanster.com —   Have you seen this?  Of course not. A far cry from the meaningless NBA Cribs TV where we are shown an endless parade of totally customized glam electronics and palatial homes that have hardly been used by NBA players, this show actually shows a real NBA family.  *GASP!*  Not only just a real NBA family, but one not within the safety confines of NBA marketing hands, but in the hands of the revisionistas of reality television, in this case ABC's SuperNanny. *GASP!*   Episode 10 may be ...

Mike James embarrasses hisself on National TV
Bright Side Of The Sun —   Have you seen this?  Of course not. A far cry from the meaningless NBA Cribs TV where we are shown an endless parade of totally customized glam electronics and palatial homes that have hardly been used by NBA players, this show actually shows a real NBA family.  *GASP!*  Not only just a real NBA family, but one not within the safety confines of NBA marketing hands, but in the hands of the revisionistas of reality television, in this case ABC's SuperNanny. *GASP!*   Episode 10 may be ...

Shaq took the loss at Portland pretty hard
Deceptively Quick — That is, if you believe that a man's twitter is an accurate reflection of his emotions, which I do. I happen to believe that Twitter is unique in it's ability to capture the true essence of the human soul. ...

Natalie Gulbis is on Twitter. Oh, this could end badly.
Devil Ball Golf — Everybody's favorite LPGA golfer-slash-celebrity in waiting, Natalie Gulbis, is now on Twitter, joining The Real Shaq and other big names who are bringing the world in on the minutiae of their lives. So far, she's already replied to several fans, including our pal Ryan over at Waggle Room. She's also invited the entire planet to come party with her at the Wynn in January for her birthday. Awesome. (Alas, she's also following Jimmy Fallon, but we'll let that slide.) So why not let Natalie know you care? But do it politely. She lives in Vegas, and she knows people.

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Spurs
Bright Side Of The Sun — Phoenix Suns vs. San Antonio Spurs 16-11 18-10 12:30PM Mountain / 2:30 ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Spurs
Fanster.com — Phoenix Suns vs. San Antonio Spurs 16-11 18-10 12:30PM Mountain / 2:30 PM Eastern TV: ABC  Probable starters: ...

10 basketball twitterers you should follow
Peter Robert Casey - The interplay of basketball, social media, and marketing — Back in late October, I was thrilled to announce on ESPN The Mag that Deron Williams had a Twitter Feed. Unfortunately, his page no longer exists. Was I disappointed? Of course. But, Deron's departure is not reason enough to abandon the trendy micro-blogging platform. ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Thunder
Bright Side Of The Sun — Your Phoenix Suns vs. Oklahoma City Thunder 16-12 3-28 ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Thunder
Fanster.com — Your Phoenix Suns vs. Oklahoma City Thunder 16-12 3-28 6:00PM Mountain / 8:00 PM Eastern TV: My45 HD  ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Grizzlies
Bright Side Of The Sun — Phoenix Suns vs. Memphis Grizzlies 17-12 10-22 6:00PM Mountain / 8:00 ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Grizzlies
Fanster.com — Phoenix Suns vs. Memphis Grizzlies 17-12 10-22 6:00PM Mountain / 8:00 PM Eastern TV: My45 HD Probable starters: ...

The Annual Shanoff Sports Hot/Not List:What's Out From 2008 And In For 2009
Dan Shanoff — ... Michael Crabtree In: Julio Jones why Out: White House mountain biking In: White House pick-up hoops games why Out: Michael Phelps In: Tiger Woods why Out: A-11 In: Gus Malzahn why Out: Nate Silver In: ZEUS why Out: 37Pitches In: @The_Real_Shaq why Out: Will Leitch In: AJ Daulerio ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Mavericks
Bright Side Of The Sun — Phoenix Suns vs. Dallas Mavericks 19-13 22-13 8:30PM Mountain / 10:30 ...

Open Gameday Thread - Suns vs Mavericks
Fanster.com — Phoenix Suns vs. Dallas Mavericks 19-13 22-13 8:30PM Mountain / 10:30 ...

Shaq would use a time machine to clone himself, naturally
Ball Don't Lie — This month's issue of Men's Journal has an interview with Suns' center Shaquille O'Neal, and as tends to be the case with most things featuring The Big Twitterer, it's ridiculously funny. This particular quote, via Fanster, had me in tears while I searched the BDL archives for the Photoshop above. Q: What would you do with a time machine? A: Go to the cloning era, clone myself 20 times, and put myself in America as 20 different people. One Shaq would be a banker. One Shaq would be a sheriff. One Shaq would be a race car driver. One Shaq would be a ...

Laraque’s Blog Gets Knocked Out By Canadiens Brass
NHL Digest — The following is the first article submitted to NHL Digest by columnist Kyle Roussel.  You are encouraged to catch up with Kyle at www.twitter.com/kyleroussel. Enjoy! Wow. Words cannot express how disappointed I am in the Montreal Canadiens. First, I should mention that I am a die hard fan of the team. They’re an inseparable part of my life. That said, they’ve clearly screwed up this time. Generally speaking, there is no team in pro sports that carries itself with more class and dignity than the Habs. Just look at any retirement ceremony, or any event where they ...

Does Curry's Accuser Look Like A Man Who Would Make Up A Story For Money? [Eddy Curry]
Deadspin — He seems kind of slimy. And Eddy Curry is disappointed and horrified by his former employee's actions. The New York Post updated its original story this morning, finally getting in touch with the Knicks center, who is desperately trying to come back from knee surgery and salvage a career haunted by under-achievement and injuries. He's a little taken aback by the allegations, obviously: "It's false, and everyone who knows me knows I'm not a racist," he said after the Knicks beat the Hornets in New Orleans. "I've never made a comment like that, playing, or nothing. . . . That's ...

Daniel Alfredsson on Twitter?
Sens Army Blog - Ottawa Senators Blog — I know what you're thinking: It can't be. Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson can't possibly have a Twitter account he uses to give fans his thoughts periodically, can he? Well, probably not, but it looks like someone (I guess maybe Alfie himself) has assumed his personality on the real-time short messaging service. And it's pretty funny, too, you can get a glimpse into what Alfie thinks when he's going into games, like when he said he had "a good feeling" going into last night's game against Carolina: "Alright, back. Sorry about the silence. It's weird, but I'm excited ...

Thursday Dump
Sports — Marvin Harrison should have been a character in The Wire. Pretty fascinating read about his “real” life here. (ESPN the Mag) A look at some of the most valuable franchises in sports. (Yahoo) Shaq Twitter. Of course you should be following it. Kobe with another creative viral marketing campaign, complete with its own website. Doesn’t matter Kobe. You are an all time great player, and an all time selfish prick. Congrats. (Awful Announcing) Speaking of pricks, the overpaid Rick Reilly weighs in with a not-so-relevant look at the ...

Worst of the Weekend: "Yes We Can't!" edition
Basketbawful — Memo to Al Thornton: Welcome to Dan Gadzuric's poster. Population: You. Happy MLK Day, everybody. I'm taking advantage of a rare day off to lounge around and watch the NBA...just like Dr. King would have wanted. But since I know some of you poor fools are stuck at work, here's an abbreviated Worst of the Weekend. And thanks to Jundi for today's pic. The San Antonio Spurs: They got blown out by 22 in Philly as the Sixers shot 57 percent from downtown and Thaddeus Young scored a career-high 27 points. Said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich: "We're ...

Shaq Tweets Love For Canada, Maury
TheScore.com Blog — Tweets? Is that seriously a fucking verb now? Ugh. Anywho, Shaq was in Toronto this weekend, as it was the Suns' turn to beat up on the Raptors, and according to his Twitter page, he's about as fond of the city of Toronto as he is watching Maury Povich after a loss-- and I'm going to assume that's a good thing! (Plus, his feed is just slightly more interesting than Todd Stottlemyre's page.)   Cardinal 9 and 7 make the supebowl, wow about 18 hours ago from txt Im n love with da city of toronto about 21 hours ago from txt ...

Sports Stars, Mainstream Media Members, and Blogging Brethren: Sweet Tweets
The Arena — I was inspired to do this by recent articles. Deadspin had two posts on Sunday from Twitter. That plane in the Hudson was a watershed moment for TwitPic. And Barack Obama’s inauguration yesterday overloaded Twitter in general. Clearly, as a ...

Sunz @ Knix: Revenge of the D'Antonis?
Bright Side Of The Sun — Your Phoenix Suns at NY Knix 23-16 16-24 ...

Sunz @ Knix: Revenge of the D’Antonis?
Fanster.com — Your Phoenix Suns at NY Knix 23-16 16-24 ...

Kind of In Love with Will Leitch
NBA's Finest: Abridged Edition — I didn't know Will Leitch of Deadspin fame had his own blog, but I was on one site that linked to another site that linked to The Will Leitch Experience. Aside from pointing me to Shaq's (in)famous Twitter and a hilarious Batman cartoon, I was pleasantly surprised by his choice of movies, including one of my absolute favorites this year, The Class. The Class, based on French bestseller "Entre les Murs" (Between the Walls), is a docudrama of the experiences of one inner city, Parisian middle school teacher. François Bégaudeau, the author of the book, plays himself in the movie. ...

Shaquille O'Neal Puts Up Some Impressive New Media Numbers
Eye On Sports Media — Athens, GA (Aug 4, 2008) - Sure, he may not be the best free-throw shooter in the world. But Shaquille O'Neal puts up some impressive new media numbers that outpace every number he has posted as a NBA player. ...

Tweeting in the Key of Book Deal
Magazine | Secrets of the City — Aside from my usual motivations – narcissism, loneliness, and a desire to be (dorkily) en vogue – I’m not sure why I tweet. (For a lesson on what tweeting is, here is James Lileks' piece from the Strib) From what I can tell, a lot of the posts that people post are a bunch of inside jokes. Sometimes it seems like I follow more and more people’s threads just so I can understand more of the inside jokes. Then I get this complex because the people I choose to follow don’t follow me. And all of a sudden it’s high school all over again. At which point I log on to ...

25 random things about the Toronto Raptors
RaptorBlog.com — If you're on Facebook, there's a good chance somebody has sent you a "25 Random Things About Me" list and encouraged you to create your own list. This will probably surprise most of you, but I don't consider myself nearly interesting enough to compose a list of 25 things that you may or may not have known about me. I mean, who would care to know that I was born with a functioning six-inch tail? So instead of boring anyone with my random minutiae, I challenged myself to bore you with a list of 25 things about the Raptors that you might not have noticed or realized, or that you've been trying to block from your mind so you ...

Shanoff's W.U.C.: Tweeting UNC, Favre
The Sporting Blog — Today's Calls: UNC vs. Duke, Brett Favre vs. A-Rod, Pitchers vs. Catchers, Mo Williams vs. Deron Williams, Adam Dunn vs. Bobby Abreu and More. The Opening Pitch: UNC, Favre, A-Rod, P's & C's: All in 140 characters or less? Last night, I was at the first-ever Shorty Awards (for Twitter excellence -- featuring a special video tribute from the king of Twitter himself, Shaq), and appropriately inspired, will deliver today's Wake-Up Call in "tweets" of 140 characters or less ... UNC is back: The Heels felt like they had ...

The Real Nash (and J-rich) are on Twitter
Digital Sports Daily — David Stern sent a directive to all NBA teams at the start of the season, get on twitter. Stern is on twitter (although his username is unknown). Many NBA teams are now twittering, some of the best are the www.twitter/sixers/ and http://www.twitter.com/PhoenixSuns Today The Real Shaq tweeted: “David stern just asked me if i twittered today, i love dat man, he understands, love u all, peace, shalom, and happiness 2 everyone “ The Real Steve Nash is now on twitter Good to see the Phoenix suns ...

Steve Nash Is Now On Twitter
Sports Rubbish — Looking to get the innermost thoughts of your favorite basketball playing Canadian? The Phoenix Suns' Steve Nash is now available on Twitter. This makes him the 3rd Suns player to be tweeting, following Shaquille O'Neal, the NBA's most prolific & deep man when it comes to Twitter, and ...

Can Lance Armstrong's Twitter Army Help Him Find His Stolen Bike? [Lance Armstrong]
Deadspin — If THE_REAL_SHAQ isn't somehow involved in the investigation, I'll be devastated: "Whoa!! They just came to my room and said our truck was broken into and someone stole my time trial bike! Wtf?!? APB out to the twitterati...they also stole 3 others. crazy!!...A pic of the stolen tt bike. There is only one like it in the world therefore hard to pawn it off. Reward being offered." [Twitter] ...

A Tweet You Can Believe In
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — Whenever a celebrity has a blog, or a Twitter feed, or even writes a column -- you have to wonder: Is this really the celebrity writing? Shaquille O'Neal's Twitter feed has been vouched for every which way. But that didn't stop Phoenix's Jesse Bearden from doubting. It was something he and his friend Sean had debated many times. Jesse writes about what happened next on his blog a Foot and a Half. "You realize that 'The Real Shaq' is probably a 5-4, white, 14-year-old emo kid who's getting his jollies from the attention, right?" I asked him. "I don't ...

The 10-man rotation, starring Marbury talkin' break-ups
Ball Don't Lie — A look around the league and the web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out. C: YouTube — Episode 3 and 4. Man, I hope that bus never comes. I'll be so sad when this series ends. PF: A Foot And A Half, via TH. The awesome story of how Shaq is proving that's actually his Twitter feed. SF: The Hoop Doctors. Enter the new ...

Why Shaq Wins At Life, Twitter
The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae — I grew up as a sports fan with Shaq. In 1992, I was eleven years old and buying pack after pack of Topps basketball cards at Mike's Collectible's on West Chester Pike and Eagle Road in Havertown in hopes of pulling a Shaq gold rookie. Eventually, I got one. And something roughly totalling like 100 other Shaq cards. The guy just had that entertaining quality that mesmerized an eleven-year-old. As it turns out, to the surprise of no one, Shaq still has it today. Obviously, you know by now that Shaq is one of the greatest famous people on Twitter (along with ?uestLove of the Roots). Well ...

Fans Use Twitter to Rendevous With Shaquille O'Neal at Phoenix Restaurant
FanHouse — ... Shaq got heavy into Twitter under the name The_Real_Shaq after someone impersonated him on the site for a while. He's quickly amassed a ridiculous 127,000+ followers. And recently, he ended up meeting with a few of them at the 5 & Diner in Phoenix after a Twitter exchange ...

Follow the thought process of "Brian Burke" on Twitter
Puck Daddy — If you're not that into the social networking scene outside of Facebook or Myspace, you may not know about Twitter, a text-based posting system that allows users to type a message up to 140 characters. Picture your Facebook status, but on a grander scale, and minus all that poking.  Everyone has his or her own way of using Twitter. Some users "tweet" links their own individual blogs or news items, while others seem to just enjoy looking at all the words they've typed on a topic. Twitter has been gaining steam in the past year, with businesses and even celebrities hopping on board to voice their ...

Follow the thought process of 'Brian Burke' on Twitter
Puck Daddy — If you're not that into the social networking scene outside of Facebook or Myspace, you may not know about Twitter, a text-based posting system that allows users to type a message up to 140 characters. Picture your Facebook status, but on a grander scale, and minus all that poking.  Everyone has his or her own way of using Twitter. Some users "tweet" links their own individual blogs or news items, while others seem to just enjoy looking at all the words they've typed on a topic. Twitter has been gaining steam in the past year, with businesses and even celebrities hopping on board ...

Keeping Up with Shaq
The Love of Sports — If Kazaam changed your life (as it did mine), you’ve been spending the past 12 years wishing you knew Shaquille O’Neal a little bit better.  America, the time has come.  The Phoenix Suns superstar has a Twitter account. Up and running since November, Shaq’s managed to rack up 16 pages wortrh of Tweets. The page, www.twitter.com/the_real_shaq, is a multifaceted information source for Shaq fans. No, really. Wanna know what Shaq had for dinner on November 18th?  Well, he’ll tell you: “I’m at a[n] Italian restaurant, the fettuccini was ...

Shaq Meets Twitter Users At Diner In Phoenix
FanIQ Blog — For a while now, people have been wondering if THE_REAL_SHAQ on Twitter is in fact the real Shaq. There's plenty of evidence to suggest that it is, but this story will simply confirm it 100%. A guy named Jesse Bearden who runs a blog called A Foot and a Half was killing time of Twitter when he noticed that THE_REAL_SHAQ mentioned he was at a local diner. Here's what happened: “Well, I just got a twitter from The Real Shaq, and he’s at 5 & Diner right now,” Sean informed me. “Let’s go then” I said, ...

Leafs GM Brian Burke Joins The Twitter Craze!
Total Pro Sports — Total Pro Sports - First it was Shaquille O'Neal, then teammate Steve Nash, Lance Armstrong, Alex Ovechkin and now Brian Burke the Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager has joined the Twitter craze.  From celebrities to students, Twitter is gaining recognition for a place where everyone can voice their opinion and promote articles from their blogs.  We also have own Total Pro Sports Twitter page, so be sure to follow us for updates. "Twitter is a service for ...

Top ten most popular athletes who use Twitter
Top Ten Chicago Sports — Will Leitch's fine profile on the dudes that started Twitter got us thinking about what athletes use it. Twitter would seem to be perfect for athletes: they can reach their fans quickly and conveniently without going through a reporter, and it doesn't take nearly as much time or effort as maintaining a blog. Here are the top ten most popular athletes on Twitter. UPDATE: Alas, it seems the good folks at Coed Magazine did a similar post about a month ago. Don't want to make it seem like we're stealin' their idea or anything, so go check out that list, too. They've got some people we don't ...

Create-a-Shaq-tweet: 140 characters or less
Ball Don't Lie — "Imagine trying to explain Shaquille O'Neal's Twitter behavior to a person living in the 19th century," Jon Bois of Mouthpiece Sports ponders. "'There is a man named Shaquille. He stands over seven feet tall. He walks about town. Invisibly and silently, he communicates with those around him. He beckons people to flock to him, and they do. He commands them to approach him and touch him, and they are rewarded.' This person would think you were describing the Antichrist, or perhaps Jesus on stilts." Very funny, and so true. Best imaginary "Shaq tweet" wins my ...

Dust off the track shoes
Lakers Blog — Ask a Laker fan to make a list of things that cause concern, and at the top for many would be defense. After all, without Andrew Bynum anchoring the middle this month, games have sped up and the Lakers are giving away more points evening to evening ...

What to Watch: Thursday
RealClearSports - Blog — 1pm ET - ESPN – MLB Preseason Baseball: Astros vs. Braves - For the real baseball junkies. 2pm - Golf Channel - Accenture Match Play Championship: Second Round - Tiger will try to take care of business again. 7pm - ESPN - NCAA Basketball: West Virginia @ Cincinnati - The Bearcats probably need to win three of their final four Big East games to have a good shot at making the tournament. West Virginia is sitting pretty with games against DePaul and South Florida left on their schedule. 7pm - ESPN2 – NCAA Basketball: #19 Xavier @ St. Joseph's - Xavier ...

Links: Shaq Gives Us Another Reason To Follow Him On Twitter
SLAM Online — by Lang Whitaker Shaq just posted this. No comment needed. You can follow Shaq on twitter here. (Or me here. Although I don’t post photos of myself with gold teeth. Yet.) … >

Shaq Has Learned How to Upload Pictures, Hilarity Ensues
Friends of the Program — If you are one of the millions who feel the need to let everyone know exactly what you are doing at any given moment over at Twitter, you’ll be happy to know that Shaq, he of the highly entertaining THE_REAL_SHAQ on that lovely site, has learned how to post pictures.  This has thus far given us ...

Hoop Heads North will be live blogging Lakers-Suns on TheScore.com tonight!
Hoop Heads North — [youtube]0J8A_KpbYf8[/youtube] Hoop Heads North will be doing the live blog for Los Angeles Lakers-Phoenix Suns tonight on TheScore.com Game Time: 10:30pm ET It's the return of the ...

Ayo Technology
RaptorBlog.com — Three months ago , I wrote a mini-rant at the end of a shootaround post about how I considered Twitter to be a pointless application that was a wasteland of egomania. Since then, I think you could say that Twitter "blew up" and now it seems like everyone's using Twitter: Chris Bosh , Steve Nash , Tyson Chandler , Bill Simmons and yes, of course, Shaq are all "tweeting". Jason Richardson's Twitter followed me before I knew he tweeted. Because of that, I discovered that J-Rich has the most awesome athlete website intro ever. The subtext to all this is that I ...

Chris Bosh, Shaq on Brink Of Twitter Armageddon [Nba]
Deadspin — Shaq lights up the Raptors for 45 points and 11 boards last night and is thoroughly convinced that he could be that productive every night if gets "touches like that." Chris Bosh has another theory. Via Ya-to-the-Hoo!: "He was just camping down in the lane," Bosh said Friday night, after O'Neal's biggest scoring night in six years led Phoenix to a 133-113 victory over the Raptors. "I mean, if they're not calling three seconds-I thought it was a rule, but I guess not." Three. Three-and-half. Five. What's the difference? The real melodrama from this little war ...

I respect a good verbal bitch slap...
Sports And The City — And there's not much else you can label Shaq calling Chris Bosh "the RuPaul of big men," other than a serious verbal bitch slap. It's been a "trying" season for Bosh. It's not about to get any easier. Big Shaq just sent CB4 to the mat. Like, how does one ...

The_Real_Shaq Dives into the Crowd, Tweets, and Scores 45
DETROIT4LYFE — As you have all heard by now Shaquille O' Neal reemerged as his old self the other night and scored 45 points. Thanks to our friends over at Digital Sports Daily, this video of Superman Shaq flying into the crowd was brought to my attention from that very game. Notice how long it takes him to actually fling himself into the second row of seats. I'm surprised he didn't send out a tweet on his way. Shaq is a pretty cool and funny dude, so I wouldn't be surprised if he was just being silly and purposely saw an opportunity to take a nosedive into some fan's nachos. Check it out and ...

Monday Morning Title
The Goose's Roost — by Ryan There just isn't much going on today, unless you like centers with high Wonderlic scores. Here are a few other things going on out there in the sporting world. - Die By The Blade has a look at the Sabres schedule in March. - Actually, I think this explains the Sabres' scoring woes nicely: The Sabres are 25-4-3 when scoring at least three goals. In 12 of the last 14 games, Buffalo's goaltenders have kept the opponents to three goals or fewer. But the magic numbers haven't coincided. The Sabres are 6-6-2 during their goalies' run. The Sabres were held ...

NBA and Phoenix Suns Twitter Directory
Bright Side Of The Sun — ... messaging plan is STRONGLY recommended.) As luck would have it, the Phoenix Suns, and consequently, we here at BSOTS are all over it. In order to give you the full Web 2.0 NBA and Phoenix Suns experience, we have put together a Twitter Directory of various BSOTS, Phoenix Suns and NBA Twitter feeds, including those of Phoenix Stan, Zona Flash, Watdogg10, and myself.  But, wait there's more!  You can also follow the feeds of Shaquille O'Neal, Jason Richardson, and Steve Nash.  You will also find links ...

NBA and Phoenix Suns Twitter Directory
Fanster.com — ... messaging plan is STRONGLY recommended.) As luck would have it, the Phoenix Suns, and consequently, we here at BSOTS are all over it. In order to give you the full Web 2.0 NBA and Phoenix Suns experience, we have put together a Twitter Directory of various BSOTS, Phoenix Suns and NBA Twitter feeds, including those of Phoenix Stan, Zona Flash, Watdogg10, and myself.  But, wait there's more!  You can also follow the feeds of Shaquille O'Neal, Jason Richardson, and Steve Nash.  You will also find links ...

Shaq may be getting out-twittered by the Glove
Deceptively Quick — I really thought Twitter was something annoying that I wanted no part of. That all changed when I started reading Shaq's feed. I then realized that Twitter, while annoying and often popular with people I find annoying, can be an outlet for hilarity in the proper hands. I am proud to announce that there is a new twitterererer in town that may even surpass Shaq in the categories of incoherentness (not a word) and randomness. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Gary Payton: Drive 2 OAK 2 fly ATL 4 TV. Got tapes 2 study but I bring DVDs 2. Planes never got no movies 4 a black man 2 watch. No ...

Stalking Shaquille
FanHouse — by Shane Bacon Filed under: Suns, FanHouse ExclusiveIf you consider yourself an Internet geek, you probably do three of the following; check your RSS feeds multiple times an hour, update your Facebook status no matter what inconsequential thing you're doing and check Twitter feeds. If you are a sports geek, Shaquille O'Neal's Twitter feed has to be one of the top on your list. The guy is entertaining, he's fairly disciplined in his updating techniques and he takes pictures when people are cutting his hair. Last week, Shaq tossed up a few choice words ...

Shaq Amuck
RaptorBlog.com — By now, you're surely aware that the Phoenix Suns beat the Toronto Raptors 133-113 Friday night. That's neither particularly surprising nor significant unless, of course, you're still clinging to playoff hopes for this team. The score that really amazes me is 90-36 that's the advantage Phoenix had over Toronto for points in the paint. It's not unusual for a team to fail to score 90 total points in a game. The fact that the Suns scored 90 points in the paint is as much a testament to Shaquille O'Neal's dominance (he scored a season-high 45 points on 20-for-25 shooting) as it is to the tissue-soft post defense of the ...

A Birthday Toast to the Big Shaqtus
You Been Blinded - Now in Dazzling HD — Grab your drinks and raise them up to toast another memorable birthday for the most well-known “big kid” in the world: the NBA’s unstoppable Diesel, Shaquille O’Neal. The celebrated center turns 37 this week, (March 6) although it’s hard to tell with what he’s done this season. As his career nears its end an impressive 16 years after it started, Shaq has been able to enjoy a public revival in both his game and his image, putting up numbers this year (18 points, 9 rebounds & nearly 2 blocks a game in only 30 minutes) that are higher than in recent memory and treating fans ...

Hot Clicks: Scarlett Johansson, Tom Brady, Gisele
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How Does Shaq Get Away With This Stuff?
The Sporting Blog — I already got irked once this week over Shaquille O'Neal's tremendously good manners. But hey, don't listen to my opinion. Check out what he said about former coach Stan Van Gundy, after SVG expressed surprise, and some disappointment, that Shaq had flopped against heir apparent Dwight Howard on Tuesday. From The Arizona Republic, here's the best part of the column-length outburst: "When a bum says some (stuff) about it and I respond, you can (expletive) cancel that cuz I know how he is in real life. We’ll see when the playoffs start and he (expletive) panics and ...

Shaq, This is Why People Hate You
RealClearSports - Blog — Over the past few months, there has been a meteoric rise in the skill and popularity of the one-time ruler of the NBA, Shaquille O’Neal. With his re-emergence on the court, there has been a similar re-emergence of off-the-court Shaq. Sure, over the past few years he would pop up now and then, with his Kobe rap, or in some quirky interview, but he hasn’t been the dominating media force that he once was; that is, not until recently. ...

Brock Motum & Getting My Nerd On
JR, On Fire — [image] Brock Motum is heading to Washington State University. Continuing with my scouting report on individual players from the U/20 Men's National Championships, I turn my focus to Washington State Cougar bound lefty Brock Motum. Motum who is from Queensland is an 18yo, 205cm (6'9) power forward who must have felt a little unlucky not to have been named MVP of this national tournament. Teammate and St Mary's bound PG Jorden Page was awarded the highest individual honour of the week. Cougar fans, get any thought of Aron Baynes out of your head. Motum is a wafer thin power forward with skill. He is not a banger but ...

Shanoff's W.U.C.: Big South, Bubble, A-Rod
The Sporting Blog — Today's Calls: Conference tournament title games vs. Bubble Watching, UConn-Pitt vs. Duke-UNC, T.O. vs. A-Rod, Manny vs. Manny, Shaq vs. Van Gundy, Cal Ripken vs. the iPod, Tom Brady vs. Entourage and More. ...

Tyson Chandler Is Too Hot For Twitter
Intentional Foul — That image, my friends, is the background image Tyson Chandler uses for his Twitter account, and let me tell, that thing might just be too hot for Twitter. Are the tweeters of the world ready for that much debonair masculinity? I’m not and I just made an Anna Kournikova post. Looking at all that style and sophistication makes me feel like less of a man, somehow; as I sit here in cargo shorts and a hoodie. Anyway, thanks to the Twitter stalking habits of Deadspin (don’t worry, we all do it), we now know what Chandler’s goal is: To have more followers ...

Daily Rubbish: Is Shaq Taking Photos Of Himself On The John For Twitter?
Sports Rubbish — I enjoy @THE_REAL_SHAQ’s tweets as much as anyone else, but he may have crossed a line with this photo that looks like it was taken on the toilet. Happy birthday, big guy, but please, we don’t need to see that. Brian Bosworth got busted for a DUI in Hollywood last night. The lesson here? Make sure your Harley has a license plate on it. I might not be much of a Steelers fan right now, but this is ridiculous. The upcoming Seinfeld reunion on Curb Your Enthusiasm will be pretty good. Pretty, pretty good. T.O. vs. A-Rod: One thing is clear, ...

Good Things Happen When I'm Gone
Three Idiots on Sports — The moment you've been waiting for is finally here - I have arrived back on U.S. soil after a little sojourn in the Caribbean sun. Actually you should be begging me to get the hell out of here because during the week I was gone Syracuse went 3-0 and looked pretty damn good doing ...

Twitter and
Reckless Abandon Sports — The struggling economy has hit sports franchises from several different angles: sponsorships, advertising, merchandise sales, and not least of all, ticket sales. Many teams have decided not to raise ticket prices this season and are finding creative ways to bring in fans. Many teams are using Twitter and other social media to stay in touch with their fans. Twitter allows teams to advertise, promote and provide news to fans for no price -- an increasingly effective tool in sports marketing. ...

Dogs That Chase Cars — If you are really bored and looking for something to pass the time, check out Stewart Cink's Twitter page. Like anything Twitter, you can't totally know if it is him or not, but it sure sounds like him. Check it out. It's golfy! (Oh, and I was trying to think how many people would follow Tiger's Twitter page. I'm trying to think if there will be more of less than Shaquille O'Neal's page. I'm going with more. Thoughts?

Top-40 Available Sports URLs
Grind It Out Sports — ... HOWEVA…someone mocking Stephen A. Smith has to have his own website! 20. www.pacmancapsthebottle.com One of two things could happen on this site: Pacman could clean up his act and not suck as a player, or he could start shooting glass bottles off a ledge.  Either way…we don’t really care… 19. www.shaqtastic.com Where people can go to find his latest youtube videos, Twitter updates, and all of the Shaqisms you can handle. 18. ...

This town needs an enema
RaptorBlog.com — This town needs an enema 3/12/09 by: Scott Permalink RSS feed for RaptorBlog.com "It's tough to have some players going hard, some not. I'm not trying to pinpoint it on anybody, but that's the reality. I'm watching tonight and it looked like the Sixers didn't want to play. They're not 20 points better than us, but it's tough to win games when you don't have a lot of energy and effort." - Pops Mensah-Bonsu after the Raptors lost to the Sixers 115-106 Wednesday night You know your team has hit rock-bottom when the new guy who has been with the team for three games and is earning minimum wage ...

Hilarious Athlete Tweets On Twitter
FanIQ Blog — Twitter - whatever you think of it - has quickly become one of the hottest things around. Because who doesn't want to know what your cat ate for lunch today? Whether Twitter actually becomes something substantial or is just a flash in the pan remains to be seen, but at least it's given us a window into the lives of athletes who have signed on and created an account (as far as I can tell, all these tweets are from the real athlete). Some of the tweets these athletes put out there are random, some are filled with terms like LOL that should have been outlawed a decade ago, and some are actually so bland they put me to ...

@THE_REAL_SHAQ: 'Just baseline rapped wit Griffz. Dude short'
Big League Stew — The Kid was in the house for last night's Cavs-Suns game and he took the opportunity to use his 6-foot-3 frame to remind us just how gigantic Shaquille O'Neal really is. Since it's a little to early for a C-a-C, let's hold another type of contest: How would @THE_REAL_SHAQ have Twittered this pregame meeting?  (Speaking of Shaq and Twitter, if you haven't seen Thursday's awesome Garbage Time All-Stars, make your way over and have a look-see now.) @bigleaguestew

The 10-man rotation, starring the 'idiotic, irrelevant' MVP award
Ball Don't Lie — ... big commotion. Oooh, Chris Paul not being considered is so unfair! and LeBron is just about the stats! and Miami would win 10 games without Flash! And none of it will matter. It has no rules. It has no value." PF: The Sound Of Young America. Shoals, Big Baby Belafonte and Silverbird 5000 talk on the SoYA 'cast. SF: Twitter Blog. A whole bunch of Twitter employees enjoyed an NBA game thanks to @the_real_shaq. SG: Lowposts. A list of NBA players suiting up in ...

Basketball will not keep Charlie Villanueva from tweeting
Ball Don't Lie — Tas and I touched on this unusual bit of news on Monday's podcast, but after further review, it was decided it deserved its own post, complete with an amateur-hour Photoshop. (I'm also interested to hear your take on this, so fire away below.) On Sunday afternoon, Milwaukee Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva sent a Twitter message — a "tweet" if you will — during halftime of the Celtics-Bucks game. I haven't confirmed it with 'Guinness,' but it is believed to be the first instance of a professional athlete using the increasingly popular social networking service ...

Athletes on Twitter
We Are Fanatics: Football Fanatics Blog — On the internet, anyone can create any username and pose as anyone famous. Just go on Myspace and search for Michael Jordan… you’re guaranteed to come up with a dozen or more profiles for Michael Jordan. Twitter is the same way. There thousands of regular fans posing as famous people. In today’s post I’ll go over a few of my favorite athletes who are really on Twitter. This post was inspired by a recent tweet from Charlie Villanueva. In da locker room, snuck to post my twitt. We’re playing the Celtics, tie ball game at da half. Coach wants more toughness. I gotta ...

What Has No Eyebrows and Tweets During Games?
The 3rd String Safety — Charlie Villaneuva apparently. From ESPN.com: “Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva got a talking-to from Skiles after the coach learned Villanueva posted a message to his Twitter feed — a “tweet” — from his mobile phone during halftime of Sunday’s home victory over the Boston Celtics.” Nice. Now, we all love twitter. We use it here on the site, and I think that it could be the next facebook. Hell, the two are pretty similar. Instead of telling me what you are doing that I don’t care about with your facebook status, why not just ...

From sock puppet to dairy queen: How Shaq came to tweet
Bright Side Of The Sun — Shaq stopped off for an ice cream today. Chances are you knew that already because the Big Brain Freeze announced it ahead of time to over 351,285 351,596 people following him on twitter. Can I plaese cheat on my diet and go to dairy. Queen pls pls pls I will admit this entire twitter thing causes me great joy since we played a fairly significant role in the chain of events that lead to The Big Tweet. For those new to these parts, here's how it went down:   July 2008 ...

From sock puppet to dairy queen: How Shaq came to tweet
Fanster.com — Shaq stopped off for an ice cream today. Chances are you knew that already because the Big Brain Freeze announced it ahead of time to over 351,285 351,596 people following him on twitter. Can I plaese cheat on my diet and go to dairy. Queen pls pls pls I will admit this entire twitter thing causes me great joy since we played a fairly significant role in the chain of events that lead to The Big Tweet. For those new to these parts, here's how it went down:   July 2008 ...

NBA Player Twitters During Game - The Good Thing About Social Networking
JBOMB Basketball Blog — How does social networking stuffs, such as Twitter, affect NBA and the players? Shaq does Twitter, and Charlie Villanueva, too. The difference between them is, Shaq tweets in his free time, while Charlie tweets… during the game! What?! I stumble on a news by cnet, reporting that Charlie Villanueva, Milwaukee Bucks’ Starting Power Forward, is using Twitter during the Bucks vs. the Celtics game. Is the Bucks leading by 25 points? No. The game is tied at half time. Instead of getting psyched to play great ball game, Mr. Villanueva tweets “In da ...

Friday Afternoon Nap - March 20th
TheScore.com Blog — Another Friday afternoon, another desperate need to fuck the dog until the end of the day-- and if March Madness isn't doing it for you, don't worry, I've got your back. FYI, I had this post 80% finished and then had a little bit of a software crash that fucked everything, so here I am starting over. Ugh. + Speaking of March Madness, Keith Smart talks about Bobby Knight, The Shot, which won the '87 title for Indiana, and his new gig as assistant coach of the Golden State Warriors. [Deadspin] + There are two kinds of grotesque athletes: the good ugly, who help you win by ...

In tweeting Shaq finds a way to keep it real
Bright Side Of The Sun — Time Magazine might not have realized it yet but 2009 is the Year of the Tweet. We've witnessed an absolute explosion of 140 character brilliance with The Big Tweeter himself leading the charge. At least in NBA circles he is the Pied Piper of tweets as many other players, coaches, teams and Gorillas have followed in his size 23 foot steps. Before Shaq there were only a few of us random bloggers and now we need a directory to keep it all straight. In yesterday's post we took a (brief) trip in the (not so) way-back machine to explore the origins of NBA twitterville and the role we ...

In tweeting Shaq finds a way to keep it real
Fanster.com — Time Magazine might not have realized it yet but 2009 is the Year of the Tweet. We've witnessed an absolute explosion of 140 character brilliance with The Big Tweeter himself leading the charge. At least in NBA circles he is the Pied Piper of tweets as many other players, coaches, teams and Gorillas have followed in his size 23 foot steps. Before Shaq there were only a few of us random bloggers and now we need a directory to keep it all straight. In yesterday's post we took a (brief) trip in the (not so) way-back machine to explore the origins of NBA twitterville and the role we ...

Open Thread: Regular Season Game 71 vs. Phoenix Suns
Bullets Forever — The Essentials: Wizards (16-53) at Suns (37-31) 10:00 p.m. (I double-checked tonight) US Airways Center CSN This year: January 26: Suns 103, Wizards 87 Notable Suns numbers this season: 11th in expected winning percentage (.561) 4th in pace factor (95.6 possessions per game) 2nd in offensive efficiency/offensive rating (113.1) 25th in defensive efficiency/defensive rating (111.2) Key Links: (drop any others in the ...

Suns 128, Wizards 96 – A milestone affair
ValleyoftheSuns.com — Shaq slammed his way into fifth place on the all-time scoring list. (AP/Darryl Webb) If you need any further proof that the 2008-2009 Phoenix Suns have been defined by mediocrity this season look no further than this stat: the Suns won their fourth game in a row for the first time all season in ...

Suns 128, Wizards 96 – A milestone affair
Fanster.com — Shaq slammed his way into fifth place on the all-time scoring list. (AP/Darryl Webb) If you need any further proof that the 2008-2009 Phoenix Suns have been defined by mediocrity this season, look no further than this stat: the Suns won their fourth game in a row for the first time all year in ...

Shaq Goes Where One Player Has Gone Before
The Sporting Blog — During the conception of Shaq, our creator skipped the id and just gave Big Aristotle and extra super-ego. This manifests itself in various ways: he generally holds that he is his own boss, he decides to use humans instead of barbells on a whim, and he tries to pull off feats other NBA players can't match. Such was the case Saturday, when Shaqtus sent out the following Tweet five hours before tip-off of Phoenix's game against Washington. ...

NBA and Twitter - A Match Made in Heaven
JBOMB Basketball Blog — If you follow JBOMB regularly, you must have read my blog post on Charlie Villanueva, who use Twitter during a crucial game vs. the Celtics. As Twitter and social networking as a whole are growing enormously, you and I can’t deny the fact that NBA ballers (including the coaches and executives) use Twitter more than ever. I’m not sure whether Twitter helps NBA in any ways, but Twitter does help NBA to gain better publicity, by getting closer and more personalized, casual, 140 characters conversations with the fans. As of the NBA ballers themselves, using Twitter will ...

Links: Tweeting around the NBA
SLAM Online — by Lang Whitaker OK, so I’ve been away for a minute. Last week, after we finished SLAM issue 128, I took off for Orlando, Florida, where I haunted Braves’ Spring Training for a few days. Not for fun, though it was kinda fun, but I was there because I have a little extra work to do. Besides, I just wrote another SLAM cover story for 128, which means I’ve done 3 of the last 5 cover stories, and I needed a little break from things. From Orlando and my magnificent room at the Marriott Generica, I loaded up my rental car and drove to Miami, where I spent the last three ...

Dwight Howard dancing to Beyonce on his new Youtube Channel
NESW Sports, Sports Videos — Dwight Howard dancing to Beyonce on his new Youtube Channel. How did I find this Dwight Howard Youtube Channel, much like the one Chris Bosh has? I found it on Dwight Howards official Twitter account, much like the one Shaq has. Dwight also has a blog as well. This song “Put a ring on it” is by Beyonce, the artist of choice for Dwight Howard at the Free Throw line. ...

Still room for some celebrities to improve when using Twitter
Buzz Manager Blog — Liana over at Search Marketing Gurus posted a blog entry entitled "When It Comes to Twitter & Celebrities It's Not About Conversation." (March 20) She provides a list of celebrities on Twitter from various genres and examines how celebrities are using Twitter and the noticeable differences between those doing their own "tweeting" and those whose page is seemingly updated by PR assistants. "Now look at the second example, of Faith Hill ... Someone who handles her PR is actually going to the Twitter web page for her account and entering in her tweets. All the tweets though are pimping ...

Hot Clicks Amanda Bynes, celebrities as sports franchises
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Four Wide: When it comes to Twitter, Brian Vickers is no Shaq
From the Marbles — ... isn't much of a Twitter fan. He's no Shaq, that's for sure. But you never know, he might become your Facebook buddy. Give it a shot. [ ...

NBA Players All A-Twitter About Latest Technology
SPORTSbyBROOKS — Ever since Shaq shouted out to any of his Twitter followers while eating at a local diner , Twittering has taken the NBA by storm. More and more ballers are making their way to sign up & take part in the latest social e-fad. Shaq Twitter friend ( Shaq with a newly-found Twitter friend ) Of course, some players are already taking their Twittering a bit too far, such as Charlie Villanueva , who’s texted during halftime of a game , and also spilled the beans about UConn coach Jim Calhoun’s health status . Still, it appears that Twitter is becoming a permanent part of the NBA ...

Shaq's First Portland Tweet
Blaze of Love — Following THE_REAL_SHAQ on Twitter is about as good as it gets.  He even managed to drop his first Portland Tweet today...stay tuned for more.  ...

Number Crunchin’ - Double Dribble
Heels on Hardwood — ... ” night offering Suns tweepers special ticket prices and the opportunity to mingle before the game with an appearance by @the_real_shaq. They were also one of the first teams to create a social network for their fans and have creatively managed to keep everyone talking about all things Suns. Other NBA teams need to take a look at the model the Suns are working with because with the economy the way it is “Entertainment” is usually pretty low on a persons list compared to bills and mortgages. There are tons of  tools that the internet and media have to offer to ...

UConn players join the Twitter blog-o-lution
The Dagger — NBA players Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Bosh, and Charlie Villanueva have made news with their Twitter addictions lately. Shaq invited people to touch him in a mall, and Charlie V secretly tweeted (secreted?) at halftime of a Bucks game, which made Scott Skiles angry. But what about college players? Why aren't they joining their NBA counterparts in the software phenomenon that's made athletes less of a novelty and more of a rule? Turns out, they are, at least in Connecticut. First, it was just reserve forward John Lindler. Now it's since expanded to the starting lineup. Yes, ...

The WPS tries so, so hard.
Unprofessional Foul — As you may be aware from merely existing, Twitter is all the rage these days. We use it. I use it. Lots of celebs use it, and, thanks to some thrilling reportage in the New York Times this morning, lots of those celebs hire people to Tweet for them! Well, the WPS has caught wind of this Twittering business, and their big news concerns their inaugural game on Sunday: players on the bench will be tweeting! During the game! Score one for the marriage of brand-new social networking and brand-new, sure-to-fail professional sports leagues. As the story from ESPN ...

Twittering Away
The DC Sports Page — So recently we've heard about Twitter creeping into the professional sports world. Charlie Villenueva of the Milwaukee Bucks tweeted about his play and how he has to step up. Shaquille O'Neal actually twitters away at all times of the day. OK, really night. You can follow Shaq at @THE_REAL_SHAQ. The amazing part is that he does a bunch of it from his Crackberry Blackberry. There are also a few parodies of front office people. Like your hockey? Follow Brian Burke or Bob Gainey. For a local twist, Vinny Cerrato is waiting for you. If you did not ...

Tough Love: Twitter
The Love of Sports — Enough is enough! Twitter has jumped the shark in my books and it needs to die a quick death for the rest of the world real soon. Why do I say this? Because not a day goes by that there isn’t some reference to Twitter from the sports world, whether it’s the amusing anecdotes of The_Real_Shaq or a story about Milwaukee Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva being told by coach Scott Skiles that he’s not allow to publish “tweets” at halftime or while sipping Gatorade on the bench. The latest and last straw for me is Dallas Mavericks ...

10 Ways To Help You Tweet Without Ghost Writing
Buzz Manager Blog — Yes, I launched Shaq on Twitter and No I don't write his tweets! But we do contribute in very significant ways to the effectiveness and efficiency of our clients' twitter activity. ...

A List Of Every NBA Player On Twitter
Hooped Up — The NBA has officially gone bananas with Twitter and I’ll try my best to help you keep up. Below is a list of every NBA basketball player with a Twitter page I could find and as new players join Twitter Nation, I’ll update this list. If I missed somebody, send me a tweet over @hoopedup to let me know who and I’ll update the list. Enjoy! Boston Celtics Paul Pierce - @PaulPierce34 Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban - @Mark_Cuban / @mcuban  Indiana ...

Bedlam '09, Round 1: Shaq's Twitter acct vs. CV's Twitter acct
Ball Don't Lie — BDL's completely pointless, albeit oddly entertaining, Bedlam Tournament continues. Thanks to your help, we've compiled a list of 32 things that you may or may not love about the NBA and seeded them into four regions. We're almost through the first round ... Our next match-up in the Deep Region will be decided in 140 characters or less: No. 4 seed Shaquille O'Neal's Twitter account (@THE_REAL_SHAQ) vs. No. 5 seed Charlie Villanueva's Twitter account (@CV31). A closer look at the nominees: No. 4 ...

Epochrypha: Era-ta
Outside the Boxscore — Since I'm on an off week for Epochrypha, and seeing as my soupe du jour or, rather, soupe de la saison (i.e. the NBA) isn't top news right now, I figured it'd be a good time serve up the first helping of Era-ta, which will taste pretty much like the bi-weekly but be a little less meaty (cf. clam chowder vs. corn chowder). For now, Great Sports Names, some guy named Tiger, and a little Madness may thicken the air, but in a week or two you're going to want to turn your attention back to the only league that insists on calling itself an association. The following ...

Information Overload
Three Idiots on Sports — The intertubes are just flat out crazy these days. For sports fans there are a million different places find to your news or opinions on your favorite teams. From the mainstream media, to blogs, to internet message boards, to social networking sites such as Facebook and now the Twitter explosion, if you ...

Bedlam '09, Sweet 16: Half-court shots vs. Shaq's Twitter
Ball Don't Lie — ... for the final Sweet Sixteen matchup of our completely pointless, albeit oddly entertaining Bedlam Tournament. Thanks to your help, we've compiled a list of 32 things that you may or may not love about the NBA and seeded them into four regions. Tomorrow, we'll unveil some Elite Eight matchups. Our final second round matchup is a good one: No. 1 seed half-court (and some) shots vs. No. 4 seed Shaquille O'Neal's Twitter account (@THE_REAL_SHAQ). In the first round, the long-ball destroyed Rumble the Bison, while Shaq ...

My All Twitter Team
NBAtipoff — So with this NBA Twitter craze continuing to hit the players, I thought I'd pick a squad of all Twitter users! PG: the_real_nash. I'm trying to build a team to win today. Nash can get us there now. SG: jrich23. I know what you're thinking, TWO Suns! Well, this team is not going to have many more, at best one more. SF: paulpierce34. He will be our go to scorer in the clutch, plus he'll give out tickets to all the Twitter All Star fans. PF: ...

The NBA’s Twitter All-Stars
You Been Blinded - Now in Dazzling HD — ... about or wants to constantly know what we’re doing. Now imagine multiplying that ego-driven reality by someone whose bank account has about six extra zeros and you’re bound to get Twitter gold. Back in the day you had to wait for tomorrow’s paper (usually boring, formulaic replies) or 30 minutes in a parking lot after the game to catch a few words from your favorite players or coaches. Not anymore, not by a long shot. Take the posts of Twitter’s most famous athlete, Shaquille O’ Neal. Timeless ...

Twitter Faux Pas
Center Field — Twitter is all the rage now - Center Field was the among the first Sox blogs to get a Twitter account (way back in September of last year- over 6 months ago), and we’ve got almost 450 followers (thanks, Twitterers!). Every blog is jumping on the trend now- even mainstream media has gotten in on the action. But ballplayers on Twitter? Really? Shaquille O’Neal? Real. Nick Swisher? Real. CJ Wilson? Real. CC Sabathia? Real. Barry Zito? Real. Brian Wilson? Real. But Terry ...

Fake Twittering - You're Doing It Wrong [Mlb]
Deadspin — ... ) has apparently been trying to dupe dimwitted followers into thinking they could win free Red Sox tickets by doing something or going somewhere, ala The_Real_Shaq. ...

Shaq Parties In Dallas: 'Dolce Vendetta'
DallasBasketball.com — [image] Possible good news for the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday afternoon as they play host to the Phoenix Suns and Shaquille O’Neal: From what we can gather – from THE_REAL_SHAQ Twitter rivalry with Mark Cuban to the scoop on Shaq’s monster Saturday night party in Dallas – The Big Diesel might have The Big Distraction tonight and The Big Hangover on Sunday. Details, starting with “Dolce Vendetta’’: Dolce Vendetta means "sweet vengeance'' in Italian. And maybe that applies, giving the playoff implications of the nationally-televised Suns-at-Mavs meeting. But Dolce Vendetta is also the name of a Dallas ...

The Greatest Shaquille O'Neal Quotes of All-Time..He is The NBA's 50 Cent
Robert Littal Presents The Infamous BlackSportsOnline — Grant Hill called Shaq the 50 Cent of the NBA. I must agree because there is no one in the NBA who gives a better quote than Shaq. It took me two days to compile this list of Shaquille O'Neal Quotes and videos. So take a seat and relax and be prepared to literally "laugh out loud". Do me a favor if you follow Shaq on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/THE_REAL_SHAQ let him know that he has bestowed the title of 50 Cent of the NBA by BlackSportsOnline. And follow me as well: http:/www.twitter.com/BlkSportsOnline You have to start out with a ...

Twitter + Sideline Reporter = Cuban/Fish Solutions
DallasBasketball.com — [image] For the last three days, Mark Cuban has been asking questions about the use and value of Twitter like, What are your thoughts on the future of twitter and its uses. Im curious. For the last three decades, I’ve been asking questions about the use and value of network sideline reporters like, “Why are they even allowed into the arena if they’re not going to inform me in any way. I’m curious.’’ Today, Mark Cuban and Mike Fisher, asking two different questions, have been provided a singular answer: Her name is Lisa Salters. Twitter is all the rage (yes, I’m trying to figure it out to benefit ...

BREAKING: Shaq's 'Wish'? To Be A Mav
DallasBasketball.com — [image] Shaquille O’Neal didn’t just stay an extra day in Dallas because, as he claims, he wanted to visit the Grassy Knoll. We’re told the Suns legendary center also stayed behind because he thinks all the grass in Dallas might be greener – and that he is angling with Mavs owner Mark Cuban for an offseason trade to Big D. This storyline is just now revving up again thanks to Shaq’s weekend on the town, during which he repeatedly told friends about the Mavs being on his wish list. We’ve already chronicled his Saturday night pregame party at Dolce Vendetta ...

New Media Review: NBA
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On Writing, Baseball Writing, And The 21st Century
pitchers & poets — ... I got a tweet the other day (a tweet is a message from twitter for those of you not yet following The_Real_Shaq), that seems fitting. The tweet, in its latest form reads as follows: ...

Shaquille O'Neal Tweets Graceland
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — Shaquille O'Neal, via Twitter a few minutes ago, from Graceland: Whoeva finds me at graceland gets four tickets  Here's a live video feed of the front lawn. I sure can't see him. UPDATE: And now he says somebody already found him, at "the Lisa Marie."

Coach, will u b my Facebook friend?
Outside The Press Box — When I first found out that Steve Sarkisian was Twittering, my immediate thought was sympathy for the poor athletic department lackey who had to pretend to be the new University of Washington football coach. So imagine my surprise that Sarkisian -- with some help -- actually is doing the Tweeting (?), enlightening his 2,462 followers with these bon mots from spring practice: "What a great day for football, practice starts at 1 p.m." and "Compliance and staff meeting this morning, cannot wait for practice, hope to see you out there." Welcome to the new world of college football coaching, where marketing your ...

Paint By Numbers: Suns visit Graceland, oh and they are playing the Grizzlies too
Fanster's Suns Community — ... According to his Twitter feed, Shaquille O’Neal spent Thursday visiting the establishment where the King of Rock and Roll feasted on peanut butter and banana sandwiches and shot holes through his television. ...

Paint By Numbers: Suns visit Graceland, oh and they are playing the Grizzlies too
Fanster.com — ... According to his Twitter feed, Shaquille O’Neal spent Thursday visiting the establishment where the King of Rock and Roll feasted on peanut butter and banana sandwiches and shot holes through his television. ...

A Twinterview with Jordan Bastian
Batter's Box Interactive Magazine — Believe it or not, a "Twinterview" is not an interview conducted during a Twins game, even though that's exactly how it happened. Guess you'll just have to click through to find out what the bleep I'm talking about... I've been on Twitter for the last few months, and one of the people I "follow" is Jordan Bastian, Jays' beat reporter for MLB.com. I've really enjoyed Jordan's "tweeting" so far - he "live-tweeted" several spring training games, sating my desire for baseball after the long, cold, dark Ottawa winter, and the kind of info he includes in his tweets is often much more interesting than what you'll find in a ...

There's an NHL Tweetup
From The Rink — ... I'll be "celebrating" at the newsroom, but if others are looking for Twitter pals, this appears to be your ticket to ride. Maybe Shaq will be there? ...

The Last Days of Louis Amundson's Flowing Locks
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — The energetic young Sun has been fingered as the primary suspect in a heavy duty popcorning of Shaquille O'Neal's van. (Filling the car with popcorn, by the way, accounts for, I think, 95% of NBA pranks.)  O'Neal is on Twitter and on video at the link above making sure everyone knows he was the victim of an Amundson prank. O'Neal wants the world to know that it is not acceptable to mess with his car or his food, and there will be hell to pay tomorrow. Amundson's motivation? Perhaps, O'Neal speculates, Shaq and his buddies messed with the young man's bicycle one too many times. ...

Suns Shaquille O’Neal Gets Pranked By Lou Amundson
Total Pro Sports — Total Pro Sports - The biggest prankster in the whole sports world Shaquille O'Neal, had a little taste of his own medicine yesterday as he fell victim to a prank on at US Airways Center. Shaq loves the attention, if it's dancing with the Jabbawockeez At The NBA All Star Game, singing on stage with the with his Suns teammates, bench pressing his trainer during a team workout or just posting frequently on his twitter account. You can always find Shaq doing something interesting and trying to make people ...

Louis Amundson gets one over on Shaq
Sports Crackle Pop — Payback is a female dog. Watch as Louis Amudson gets Shaquille O’Neal back for all the times he has stolen his bike. The foam peanuts trick is great and all, but it doesn’t have any lasting effects as say leaving buttered popcorn in someone’s car. Shaq vows revenge. But he might be short on time as the season ends today. This also brought back memories for “The Big Cactus,” as he wants payback for the time Ashton Kutcher got him on that horrendous show Punk’d. Please get him good and make him pay for putting out crappy movies like “My ...

Lou Amundson pulls prank on Shaquille O'Neal
Ball Don't Lie — All-star center Shaquille O'Neal, among the biggest jokesters in league history, got a taste of his own medicine when he was the victim of a prank himself on Tuesday afternoon following the Suns' final practice. As seen above, and in these photos here, one plucky punk turned his "police van" into a UPS parcel full of pink packing peanuts. (Feel free to try and read that previous sentence out loud three times fast. I can't.) The suspect? Young Suns forward Lou Amundson who has been on the wrong end of pranks all season long, the majority coming from Shaq. You ...

Celtics/Bulls Series Preview
SLAM Online — ... I was hoping to find quotes from Shaq about both of them, but apparently he hasn’t gotten around to dissing them yet. Step up, Diesel! Maybe I’ll Twitter him about it. ...

2RR Brings The Tweets
2nd Round Reach - NBA and Fantasy Basketball Commentary for the Truly Obsessed — ... If you're like me (or at least the rest of the planet), you've probably already embraced the zeitgeist-defining new media phenomena and become a power-Twitterer in your own right. Your RT etiquette is flawless. You hashmark 50% of your tweets. You've had a direct message response from @the_real_shaq. You know the Fail Whale intimately enough to have joined the official ...

Shaq wants to slim down and be the change the Suns seek
Bright Side Of The Sun — More photos » by Matt York - AP Phoenix Suns' Shaquille O'Neal (32) guards Memphis Grizzlies O.J. Mayo during the third quarter of an NBA ...

Shaq wants to slim down and be the change the Suns seek
Fanster.com — More photos » by Matt York - AP Phoenix Suns' Shaquille O'Neal (32) guards Memphis Grizzlies O.J. Mayo during the third quarter of an NBA ...

Ohio State’s Newest Gimmick: Pretend Coaching
SPORTSbyBROOKS — Between following athletes on Twitter , fantasy“adult baseball” camps , and the incredibly played-out replica jersey , it seems that fans want to be part of the game and the culture. We’re not entirely sure why, other than chalking it up to the old standard insecurity, but whatever. We’re happy to watch on TV and know that we are not them. Ohio State coaches (Yeah, these guys are having a blast.) But at Ohio State, they’re betting there’s someone out there for whom sitting in the stands at the spring game is woefully inadequate. So if you’ve got gobs of disposable income and an irrational need ...

Twitter Continues To Gain Strength In The Sports Industry
SportsAgentBlog.com | Sports Agent News — ... to tweet.  So someone had to create a list of sports personalities on the service.  Brendan Wilhide and created SportsIn140.com and the Sports on Twitter List , which contains over 100 professional athletes, teams, leagues, media members, sports bloggers and fantasy sports players on Twitter.  He validates the Twitter accounts to make sure that we are not following some scam artist pretending to be Steve Nash. Some of my favorites on Wilhide’s list are @NickSwisher , @the_real_shaq , @sj39 (Steven Jackson), and @hhreynolds (sports blog, ...

Notre Dame (And Other Fun Sports People) On Twitter
Irish Insights | Journal Gazette — So clearly, if you've found this ever-growing corner of the Internet -- we're coming up on our one-year anniversary next week ( please, buy paper, or, in fact, this newspaper, as our one-year anniversary gift, which, after all, is the paper anniversary) . Something you'll never find on paper but written about a lot in newspapers is Twitter. And more and more, athletes (and writers, and managers, and coaches) are finding Twitter as a way to communicate and be interactive with fans, readers, listeners, etc. In that vein, Insights went and hunted out some people tweeting all over the Web. The name will provide the Twitter link ...

Wednesday Bullets
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — Jaime from Basketball.org makes a point that makes you think and maybe protest a little (how good would the Celtics be with Garnett but without Paul Pierce?): "I want all the experts and casual fans to stop telling me how amazing Paul Pierce is. Since last year season and the NBA Finals, I have heard over and over how great Pierce is. How he lead his team to an NBA championship. How he deserves to be mentioned in the MVP voting. Even last night by Doug Collins, how he has the heart of a champion. Yes, Paul Pierce is a good player, but he has some great players along side of him and the true heart of a ...

Worst of the Playoff Night: April 22, 2009
Basketbawful — Want the Birdman back in Denver next season? Sign the online petition! (Details here.) The Orlando Magic: The Magicians pulled out the victory, but you can file this under "Losses That Aren't As Good As Others." For the second straight game, Orlando built an 18-point lead over the Sixers. And for the second straight game, Philly came back, pulling to within 5 points late in the fourth quarter. And man, was the home crowd quiet. I'm talking "you could hear a mouse pee on cotton" quiet. The Magic held off the rally, thanks to some late-game heroics by ...

Forget R.O.Y., the Veteran of the Year: Dikembe Mutumbo
Hoop Heads North — Forget about about Derrick Rose and the Rookie of the Year award.  I mean no disrespect to Rose, but we're introducing a new award. This one doesn't go to that young kid who razzled and dazzled NBA crowds in one season, this one goes to the wiley veteran in the L who's still making an impact after multiple seasons.  Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce to you the Veteran of the Year award.  Recognizing the veteran player whose athleticism and speed aren't as fresh as their rookie season but they still somehow have been able to ball in the league way passed their prime, extending their NBA career ...

'HouseCast 12: Kathleen Hessert Talks SportsCenter Blog Buzz, Athlete Tweets
FanHouse — by Will Brinson Filed under: Blogs, ESPN, Sports Media, Sports Advertising, Current Events, FanHouse Exclusive, PodcastThe FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone. Kathleen Hessert, the President of Sports Media Challenge, had a vision in 2004 of a technologically superior method of determining the "buzz" surrounding a particular athlete, organization or team. It finally came to full-on fruition this past week when ESPN began running their "Blog Buzz" segments during the morning ...

Once Upon A Time In 2009: 5 All Time Outcomes NOW!
Full Court Pest — [image] If You Disagree, You're Wrong Storybook endings are rare in sports but easily the most cherished moments. You'll feel lucky that you experienced that game instead of the highlights years later. Commonality is not memorable. Its almost never the actual play that determines if an event is going to be special. Its the details surrounding games and between whistles that drive the enormity the biggest reason we are sports fans. Its fun to try and predict them too... two years back I predicted the Warriors over Mavs upset and last year successfully picked Davidson to the elite 8 ...

Wale On Ovie's Goal
Capitals Kremlin — Twitter is a great social media tool. It can connect you with friends, readers and even celebrities. The latter is what I find fascinating about the service, the sheer amount of celebrities who are tweeting with fans on a daily basis. So it's been our personal goal to try and get one of these celebrities to comment on the Washington Capitals. After repeated attempts to elicit a response from THE_REAL_SHAQ and other Twitter celebrities, we finally managed to get one to acknowledge the Capitals. D.C homeboy and up-and-coming star in the rap game, Wale. We sent: ...

The World Can’t Handle Brian Wilson’s Twitter Fiction
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog — A day or two ago, I heard that Brian Wilson, San Fransisco Giants closer, was using Twitter. Not all famous athletes deserve to be followed on Twitter. Many are boring or just weird. But Wilson is my roto closer, so I gave him the old follow. Maybe he’ll tweet about when I should drop him, or when his arm is feeling a little rough, or when .. OK I’ll stop talking about my fantasy baseball team now. The first dispatch I got was Wilson explaining that he was eating cheeseburgers, and that people need to stop taking things so seriously. Then … silence. What happened? Turns out, ...

Reading Kobe's blog will cost you
Posted Sports : Basketball — (Photo: Kobe Bryant celebrates a new way to make money. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok) Shaq may Tweet for free on Twitter, but to get into Kobe Bryant's head — well, that is going to cost you. Kobe's Web site is free for all to check out his stats and news, but if you want more than that — like the chance to meet the Lakers superstar or to read his blog — you're going to have to hand over US$49.95. Bryant isn't the first star to charge for fan club content on his Web site, and there's no doubt he won't be the last. But $50 a year does seem a little steep for one of the ...

Dwight Howard’s Twitter Feed Last Night…Foolish
Steady Burn — Dwight Howard was suspended for last night’s game six of the Magic/Sixers series - giving Celtics and Bulls fans a glimmer of hope that should one of those teams emerge still standing from that series they wouldn’t have to see Superman. That dream is of course, dead. Orlando romped Philly last night to advance to the second round. Howard, who wasn’t allowed to be in the stadium, was back at the hotel with his family. And as Sports By Brooks pointed out this morning, providing his own commentary via Twitter. His twittering is ...

NBA on Twitter!
Triviality of Basketball — Is anyone else on here twittering? I’ve been bit by the bug, the twitter bug to be exact. There are so many basketball players and resources on twitter it’s astounding! Here are some of my favorite Twitterers out there. If anyone else has some favorites let me know add yours! Also, you can follow me if you want - TRNYc ...

A Ranger Pundit Twitter Thingamajigger for the Blueshirts
Ranger Pundit — Ranger Pundit signs up for twitter So this Twitter thingamajigger is popping up everywhere. Oprah , Larry King , and Shaq are all twittering away. There's also a bunch of NHL and Rangers twitterers. Sean Avery and Marty Brodeur have tried Twitter, but aren't very active at the moment. You can learn some interesting things on Twitter, such as, Patrick Elias gets his hair cut at the Roy Teeluck salon in NYC. Note to self: next time you need a basic $100+ hair cut you'll have to drop in at Roy's and check it out. So anyway, thought we'd try Twitter out ...

Shaq is sticking to his diet
Sports Crackle Pop — Good for Shaquille O’Neal. If you follow him on Twitter, you know that the big man is working out and eating healthy in order to get into superstar shape for the upcoming season. And to show visual proof, Shaq makes a YouTube video in which he shows his love for some Krispey Kreme Doughnuts; but then shows enough willpower not to eat any of them. Kudos on the use of a Mariah Carey song. It adds so much more to the video. -H/T NESW Sports

Shaq Goes On Diet To Become Calvin Klein Model
FanIQ Blog — I'm not sure how many of you follow Shaq on Twitter (THE_REAL_SHAQ), but the man is awesome. He of course invented the term Twitteronia and is without question the best Twitter has to offer. Hilariously, Shaq is also using Twitter to inform us about how his diet's going so that he can eventually become a Calvin Klein model. Maybe he should have been dieting before the last season began, rather than now, but whatever. Here are some of his great Tweets on the subject, where he refers to himself as Shaqlyt or Shaqlite: ...

Shaquille O'Neal Wants To Make Love to a Krispy Kreme
NBC Washington - Sports — If you've been reading Shaquille O'Neal 's Twitter feed , you're already aware that he's on the Shaqlyte diet plan. He purports to be eating Kashi , swimming laps and staying on target to making good on his pledge to drop some weight before next season. That's easy to do via tweets, though, but is O'Neal really able to stay away from junk food? This strange, disturbing and very funny video, which comes via Ball Don't Lie , shows just how hard it can be for a man to avoid temptation. It may be a while before you can look at a Krispy Kreme doughnut or Shaq the same way again. Two things ...

Did @The_Real_Shaq Challenge Chuck Liddell on Twitter?
Steady Burn — Shaq’s MMA trainer went on First Take to discuss the rumors that The Big Cactus (I honestly never heard this nickname before, anyone else?) wants to fight Chuck Liddell… Wait, how many levels is your academy? If this guy didn’t pump the six levels six bazillion times, and Shaq-fu wasn’t such a class clown, maybe I’d buy Diesel vs. Liddell. However, is this the dude that tracked down Shaq on twitter and took him on in the octagon? In other ...

Guest Post: Jackie Adkins' take on social media in sports
Buzz Manager Blog — Jackie Adkins has been an intern with Sports Media Challenge since October. He writes his own blog "That's All I Have to Say About That" and has been a regular contributor to various SMC projects. Jackie also just graduated from UNC with a marketing degree. (Congrats!) Before I started my internship with SMC, if you asked me what social media was, I'd probably say Facebook, and that's it. At the time I had a Twitter account which had been idle since I registered in July. I also thought everyone went to SportsCenter for their sports news. My, my. How things have changed. ...

Shaq's big diet...a big MLM marketing stunt
Bright Side Of The Sun — via www.allstrips.com View full size photo uploaded May 11, 2009 Shaquille O'Neal rightly considers himself a marketing master who has ...

Should referees join the NBA’s Twitter fiesta?
Boston Celtics Basketball - Celtics news, rumors and analysis - CelticsHub.com — How did we get to Twitter’s vastly growing popularity reach the sports realm, specifically in the NBA? Did ESPN pioneer its modern day bandwagon, using sideline reporters and on-air references as a marketing tool? “gonna intv yao soon — any questions you want me to ask?” — a tweet from ESPN’s Lisa Salters. Or the athletes themselves that bridged an unprecedented gap between athletes and fans? “I’m at the fashion sq mall, any1 touches me gets 2 tickets, tag me and say yur twit u hv 20 ...

The Rest of the NBA's Most Improved List
Blaze of Love — Indiana Pacer Danny Grainger was named the NBA's Most Improved Player last night or today or whenever after having a pretty solid season for a pretty not-so-solid team.  I guess the award looks at points scored rather than intangibles or any relevant data when choosing.  Anyways, congrats to ...

Twitter is changing the sports world
Goal-Line Stand — Disclaimer: No, the people at Twitter did not pay me to write this column. Actually, Twitter is changing the whole world, but let’s keep it to sports in this venue. Yes, technology is scary. Yes, most people are still trying to get a hold on the whole Facebook thing. But don’t be afraid of Twitter. Chances are, it’s more scared of you than you are of it. Because although most of the population doesn’t really get it, there’s really nothing to get: it’s a less personal, simpler version of MySpace or Facebook. ...

Twitter Updates for 2009-05-15
KC Chiefs Football — @busymom4kc you got that right! I am very excited to see what happens as well! in reply to busymom4kc # RT @busymom4kc: Anxious and excited to see what the Pioli/Haley team has for our team this season. Can’t be worse than Herm/KingCarl # RT @KC_Chiefs1: Storms coming - http://yfrog.com/5d8nej Great shot from what I believe to be Chiefs practice facility # RT @NFLprguy: odd, but your 40 time and ave # of tweets per day are the same — 13.47. RT @richeisen LOL You guys are funny… # Former Chiefs WR Will ...

Shaquille O'Neal can Twitter full-time after retiring
Sports stories from Newsday — Shaq has passed the 1,000,000 mark in Twitter followers.

OU Notebook: Twitter, Pattillo, Womens BBall, and Baseball
Crimson And Cream Machine — More photos » by Stew Milne - AP A reporter uses a Twitter feed during the NFL Draft. Twitter is growing in popularity in sports. (AP Photo/Stew ...

Shaqacuse
Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician — Shaqacuse Shaq is in Newhouse today and tomorrow as part of a broadcasting crash course. Nice to see Shaq is planning for the future. You can stalk him by camping outside the building or just watch his Twitter feed to see where he's at.

Athlete Tweets Go Commercial
NBC Washington - Sports — Twitter is, if nothing else, the perfect blog platform for athletes. No sitting down at a computer. No formatting blog software. No designing (or paying someone to design) a fancy, flash-based Web site. Just the athlete, their mobile phone, their love of texting, and your eager eyeballs. This formula has given way to Charlie Villanueva (who famously tweeted at halftime of an NBA game), Kenny Smith (less an athlete now than a broadcaster, but still) and the king of all athlete streams, THE_REAL_SHAQ . Shaquille O'Neal has taken the medium to new heights, actually, hosting ...

just left the weight room wit the ncaa lacrosse champions, dats right I said it, syracuse is gonna...
Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician — just left the weight room wit the ncaa lacrosse champions, dats right I said it, syracuse is gonna win it all again,only lsu can beat em lol" Shaquille O'Neal, twittering from SU's campus

Danica Patrick, Twitter, and Sponorships
Buzz Manager Blog — Our team at SMC recently launched Danica Patrick on Twitter, but our blog isn’t a press release. This is about more than that. This is about having a discussion with all of you about the future of Twitter and sponsorships as it relates to athletes and celebrities. Obviously, Twitter has become very popular with athletes. A few of the most popular include: Shaquille O’Neal, Lance Armstrong, Mark Sanchez, and a few guys currently impacting the NBA playoff scene – Lamar Odom, Derek Fisher, and Dwight Howard. ...

2008-09 Player Review: Roy Hibbert
Indy Cornrows — More photos » by Darron Cummings - AP Roy Hibbert show some nice offensive moves in his rookie year, but still has plenty of work to do. ...

Is Tweetarazzi a word? It will be soon.
Cuzoogle — Twitter is starting a TV show!! Huzzah! As if there is not enough crap on the boob tube already. Get this for a concept. According to the AP, “The show would harness Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities in an interactive, competitive format.” So this is going to be TMZ but instead they type 140 words to share a story Really? Twitter is bringing us a celebrity stalking game show? No more details are available concerning the format of the show or when/where it would air. It will probably end up featuring D-list celebs or tween sensations. Now if ...

E-Mailing It In: Ramifications of a Nuggets-Magic Finals, Twitter All-Stars
SI.com - Extra Mustard — Each week, Dan Rubenstein, Ty Hildenbrandt and Jacob Osterhout will jump on e-mail and riff about various subjects in the news offered up by SI.com's Jimmy Traina. Traina : Gentlemen, let's get right to it: Is there any chance we could see a Denver-Orlando NBA Finals? And if either Kobe or LeBron doesn't make the Finals, thus denying us the Kobe-vs.-LeBron matchup, will the Finals be unwatchable? Hildenbrandt : Before the conference finals got rolling, there was a fairly widespread belief that the Lakers and Cavs would reign supreme. The only logical conclusion is that these matchups are rigged worse than the 1985 NBA ...

Shaq wants Lakers to win (via Twitter)
The Lakers Nation — So some of you may wonder who Shaq wants to win this years’ finals. Here was his answer: @adamwohl I’m a go wit the lake show (via THE_REAL_SHAQ)

2009 NBA Finals Preview: Los Angeles Lakers vs Orlando Magic
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All Shaq Wants Is Your Undivided Attention
The Sporting Blog — ... not there at the moment, is it? Shaq, from a basketball perspective, made his exit stage left months ago. (Side note: It's at this point that you realize how long the NBA playoffs are. The Suns played their final game on April 15.) And don't get me wrong, the Moe haircut is a hot look for the Big Shaqtus, but if he wants to go all Britney for some attention, I really want him to go full freakout and maybe try to bash in someone's car with an umbrella. Image found via Shaq's Twitter, which I'm relatively sure the entire internet already follows. ...

D&3 baby…D&3
FANBALLERS.com Blogs - The site of every fanballer in the universe! — For those who caught Magic Johnson’s ESPN interview with Kobe yesterday, you heard Kobe claim that Shaq couldn’t have won those championships without him, but they couldn’t have won without Derek Fisher, and Robert Horry. Shaq (via twitter) acknowledged Mamba’s thoughts with the following: “What kobe said to magic is true, I wouldn't of won it without him fish and robert horry, and b shaw and fox and everybody dynasty baby” The importance of the role players ...

Just like old times, Shaq wants LA to win it all
ValleyoftheSuns.com — Shaq’s Suns have long since been eliminated from championship contention, the first time Shaq hasn’t reached the playoffs since he was a rookie, but there will still be major Shaquillian overtones at the 2009 NBA Finals, which start tonight in Los Angeles. Will Kobe win his first title without Shaq and join the Big Aristotle and Tim Duncan as stars of this generation with four championships, or will Dwight Howard do what the Daddy never could in Orlando? Shaq even has history with the coaches, having played and feuded with Phil Jackson in LA and Stan Van Gundy in Orlando. He seems to be on OK ...

Daily Links: Nash paints, Shoals chides and DeJuan's 12%
Bright Side Of The Sun — More photos » by Chris Carlson - AP SVG with a fresh new do, demonstrates how to lift his arm to Jameer Nelson who is trying to come back after ...

Shaquille O'Neal requests Jeff Van Gundy shut up
Sports stories from Newsday — Only one game into Finals and Shaq has tweetingly ripped Jeff Van Gundy for talking about his brother too much and posted a picture of what a spawn of Dwight Howard and Van Gundy (he didn't specify Jeff or Stan) would look like. Wow. It evidently has taken his seething dislike of the Van Gundy brothers to push Shaq squarely into the rooting-for-Kobe camp. Another update on the sports media world: Stranger. By. The. Day.

I don’t think Shaq bought his wife a plane
Sports Crackle Pop — While everyone this morning is talking about this Shaquille O’Neal’s tweet, “This is what van gundy and dwight howards baby would look like;” I chose to focus on the plane people are saying was bought for his wife. Just look at the picture of Shaunie’s face. Has there ever been a more blatant photoshop job on the internet? This is just another example in which you put something on the internet and everyone believes it. Although if this isn’t a photoshop, I apologize. And if so, did it really have to be so ...

Hot Clicks: May Andersen, sports hangovers
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Valentine's Views: Twitter is changing the world
Big Blue View — If you read the Antonio Pierce-Mike Garafolo exchange from Friday's OTA carefully, you can see plainly that AP gave a pretty testy, snide interview. It's really all Twitter's fault. From recent experience we know all too well that AP is big into the hottest new form of social media. Seems like at Friday's OTA he was delivering the same message to the mainstream media that he delivered to me when I sent him questions a couple of weeks ago. The message? You want to know what I think, check my Twitter page. And what does AP think? He obviously thinks he ...

Shaq : “Why Hate What U Create”
Can't Stop The Bleeding — Hardly content with being the Towering Terror Of Twitter, Shaquille O’Neal has added (primitive) photoshop skills to his creative arsenal, writes the Los Angeles TImes’ Mark “Funky Cold” Medina. O’Neal spent most of Sunday directly messaging fans on Twitter on topics such as the goofy photo he posted on Twitter during Game 1 of the NBA Finals of what a Howard and Stan Van Gundy child would look like. He tweeted 72 fans before Game 2 of the NBA Finals. To Tory_Wds after being asked to compare Howard to himself in his prime: “he’s pretty good ...

Speed Read: Magic Reel In Obligatory Game 3 Win
SPORTSbyBROOKS — Sure the Magic beat the Lakers on Tuesday night, 108-104, shooting an NBA Finals record 75 percent from the floor (!) in the first half. But does this really make it a competitive series? I hesitate in that regard until I hear from a definitive source, like Shaquille O’Neal’s Twitter feed. So let’s check … OK, Shaq says that we can pay attention now, and that’s good enough for me. Orlando’s 63-percent field goal shooting performance for the game (also a Finals record) is impressive to be sure, and the Magic avoided going 0-7 lifetime in ...

2009 NBA Finals (Game 4 Twitter Play-By-Play)
The No-Look Pass — Here are my favorite tweets from Game 4 of the NBA Finals between Orlando and Los Angeles! If you want a regular recap of the game, well... it's not up yet! Ha ha ha. Before I start, I can't believe I missed this... jenn85 @TheNoLookPass @audigirl333 @WinInTheEnd Thanks you guys and I made it home on time!!! Oh, btw, you're so hot Rey-Rey!!! PRE-GAME misspyt @TheNoLookPass Rey-Rey is hot alexiskn that Rookie from Western Kentucky... she sounds hot. ...

The (Macro)Phenomenal Blogs With Balls Preview with Bethlehem Shoals of The Sporting News and Free Darko
On the DL — Bethlehem Shoals, he of FreeDarko.com and The Sporting Blog fame, joins the show to preview this weekend’s Blogs With Balls conference. > This is how the progression of today’s show went. Last week I was asked to moderate one of the panels at BwB. Eventually the panel I ended up having the good fortune to moderate was The Media’s Take, which includes the likes of DL guests Jeff Pearlman and Dan Steinberg, as well as Shoals and others. In emailing the panel on topic suggestions, Shoals and I went back and forth on some pretty interesting concepts and discussion ...

Daily Dime: Finals' top Tweets
ESPN Feed: bill simmons — While the Lakers and Magic battle it out on the court, the rest of the NBA World has been buzzing about the Finals off it for the past week. Here are some of the best Finals comments from the Twitter pages of NBA players and ESPN personalities. (In 140 characters or fewer, of course.) "Fisher just proved that old school is cool" -- Kareem Abdul Jabbar ...

Recap of Blogs With Balls 1.0 Conference
Fang's Bites — Yesterday, I had the opportunity to attend the Blogs With Balls 1.0 Conference in New York City. It was a chance for bloggers to meet each other, put faces with names, talk to mainstream media writers and reporters and to network. In addition, there were several panel discussion on the influence of blogs, how the mainstream media is adjusting to blogs and how social networking is influencing sports. ...

Shaquille O'Neal congratulates Kobe Bryant, Lakers
Sports stories from Newsday — Mark Jackson wondered in the waning moments of the NBA Finals what Shaquille O'Neal must be thinking as he watched. Nice old-school sentiment, Jax. Heard of a little thing called Twitter that Shaq himself helped make what it is? The world never again need wonder what he is thinking about anything, including the Lakers winning it all. Take it away, sir. (Parental discretion advised.)

What People Are Tweeting
Fang's Bites — In another edition of my checks on Twitter, here's a sampling of what's been on Twitter tonight. On Pro Football Talk being purchased by NBC, Peter King of Sports Illustrated says the following: Let's get one thing straight about the NBC/PFT marriage: NBC didn't buy PFT. NBC bought licensed content of PFT. NBC cannot tell (Mike) Florio what to write about the NFL. I have that from both horses' mouths. Sorry. PFT is profootballtalk.com. I don't think, as many of you do, that the site will be NFL or NBC tool. It'll die if ...

The Infinite List of Cool Things About the NBA
Basketball Fiend — Jordan is one of the coolest things about the NBA. The NBA is filled with all kinds of cool things. In fact, so many cool things that it’s virtually impossible to document them all. But I’m damn sure going to try. Below you’ll find a list of the things that I think are cool about the NBA (ranging from past to present, from on the court to off-court) in no particular order. The reason I call this an infinite list is that I want it to be a living document, meaning I hope you’ll continue to add to it by leaving comments in the section below or sending tips to me by e-mail at pecrawley@gmail.com ...

Suns Rumors: Shaq to Cavs smoldering again
ValleyoftheSuns.com — We're not quite there yet, but these stars could be posing for a team picture again in the not too distant future. When I woke up Sunday morning, my dad asked me if I was surprised that those Shaq to Cleveland rumors were blowing through the mainstream media again. Well, no, I kind of ...

@The_Real_Shaq to Kobe on what Kobe is saying to Shaq
Steady Burn — Following last night’s underwhelming NBA Finals clincher, The Big Eloquence had this to say via Twitter… Sincere? Backhanded? Full-on slight? H/T to Nah Right for the screen grab. And when the The Real Shaq gets on a roll, he does not quit… Shaq Tweets: Congratulates Kobe, Tweaks Stan Van Gundy One Last Time (Pacman Jonesin’)

“Shaq, Tell Me How My A** Tastes”
Dime Magazine — Everyone who worries that Shaq will be a bulldog in his elder years, refusing to admit that he’s no longer the Sheriff, should take a peek at what he tweeted after the Lakers took the ‘chip last night. He congratulated everyone that he has a relationship with on his former squad. But most importantly, he gave Kobe the respect that he deserves - and poked fun at himself too.“Congratualtions kobe, u deserve it. You played great . Enjoy it my man enjoy it. And I know what yur sayin rt now “Shaq how my ass taste ” That’s not the only gem. He gives love to the Zen Master, while sticking it to his other ex-boss, Stan Van ...

Hot Clicks: Megan Fox, Luis Castillo and Milton Bradley blunders
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Shaq Congratulates Kobe on His NBA Championship
RealClearSports - Blog — Last night, Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakes won the 2009 NBA Championship (spoiler alert!). Everyone celebrated and was happy and congratulated them on their win (some in violent ways ...

Shaq Trains In MMA, Threatens Liddell
TheScore.com Blog — ... It would appear as though Twitter sensation, and occasional basketball player, Shaquille O’Neal, has been training in MMA with a company called ...

2009 NBA Champions: Los Angeles Lakers – Congratulations are in Order
Heels on Hardwood — ... I was openly rooting for the Magic but alas it wasn’t their time. I don’t want to write some long winded recap of the series, but taking a cue from Shaq on twitter, a quick congratulations are in order. ...

Social Media Use Risks Come with Benefits
SportsAgentBlog.com | Sports Agent News — Shaquille O’Neal is a great promoter. shaq And in this day and age, is it incredibly easy to make one’s self visible through the use of social media. Sometimes, though, there are pitfalls (in addition to the downsides of releasing contract terms ...

Shaq Vs. The (Maybe) G.O.A.T. At H.O.R.S.E.
SLAM Online — by Chris O’Leary The latest chapter in Shaq’s Twitter fun could involve the NBA’s original Superman playing H.O.R.S.E. against an average-looking guy with superhuman trick-shot abilities. At around midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday/Wednesday morning, Shaq posted on his Twitter account that he wanted to play a guy who seems to be a trick-shot wizard in a game of H.O.R.S.E. for a thousand bucks. He asked his Twitter followers to help find the guy in the video: “i wanna play this guy n horse for a thousand dollars, find him pls http://bit.ly/CK5nk ...

LeBron, Meet Your New Teammate: Shaquille O'Neal [Nba]
Deadspin — The Cavaliers and Suns have reached a deal in principle to send Shaquille O'Neal to the Land of LeBron, Yahoo! Sports reports. Ben Wallace, Sasha Pavlovic and a pick to Phoenix. No confirmation from @THE_REAL_SHAQ yet. [Yahoo!, Twitter] ...

Report: Shaquille O'Neal traded to Cleveland Cavaliers
tonyblogs.net - Sports news, humor, videos and prognostications. — ESPN is reporting that the oft-discussed Shaq-to-Cleveland trade has gone down. The Cavs will send Sasha Pavlovic, Ben Wallace, the 46th pick in this year's draft and $500,000 to the Suns for the Big Shaqtus. The deal is now only contingent on league approval, although Shaq hadn't been told ...

Shaq Discovers His Trade Via Twitter
King James Gospel | A Cleveland Cavs Blog — Shaq might be the first player to ever find out he’s been traded on Twitter, especially for a trade of this magnitude. Check this out… DJJTR3Y tweeted this at Shaq: And Shaq responded with this:

Did Shaq Find Out About Trade on Twitter?
Fanster.com — It appears Shaquille O’Neal found out he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers Tuesday night on Twitter. You would think Shaq at least was made aware that a trade was in the works, and perhaps he just didn’t know when it became official. It is also possible Shaq was playing coy but the following tweets indicate that may not be the case. Judge for yourself. @THE_REAL_SHAQ is it true u a CLEVELAND CAVALIERabout 1 hour ago from web in reply to THE_REAL_SHAQ @allonso I didn’t hear dat ...

Cav-A-Shaq: 20 Cleveland-Inspired Shaq Nicknames
King James Gospel | A Cleveland Cavs Blog — An inevitable nickname for Cleveland's new dynamic duo. At this hour, we know two things for sure: A.) Shaquille O’Neal has been traded to the Cavs; B.) Shaq loves giving himself nicknames. That’s why we wanted to welcome the Big Fella with open arms and 20 Cleveland-inspired nickname ...

Ibn Notes: Shaq joins LeBron (via Twitter!)
N/A — Phoenix Suns trade SHAQ for Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic.  Shaquille O’Neal and LeBron James TOGETHER… in Cleveland.   Kind of anti-climactic, no?  Apparently, Shaq discovered that he was traded via Twitter (@THE_REAL_SHAQ) Retweeting Kareem Abdul Jabbar (@kaj33) - My top 10 Intl’ players in the league & why http://bit.ly/GsBl2 Update: Kareem answers why Yao Ming wasn’t included in his list of top international players -“Because #Yao has been injured so much I didn’t want to deny another player a spot. But certainly Yao is one of ...

Shanoff's W.U.C.: NBA Draft, Shaq, LSU, USA!
The Sporting Blog — Today's Calls: Blake Griffin vs. Ricky Rubio, Sam Presti vs. David Kahn, Jonny Flynn vs. Tyreke Evans, Tyler Hansbrough vs. Brandon Jennings, Shaq vs. LeBron, U.S. vs. Spain, LSU vs. CWS, Manny Ramirez vs. John Smoltz, BCS vs. Mountain West and More. ...

Shaquille O'Neal is going to have a long day on Twitter
Sports stories from Newsday — Should be fun today following Shaq on Twitter as he deals with reports he is headed to Cleveland. This is the first time ever that a future Hall of Famer has had this particular forum for dealing with this kind of story. Weird.

B.Manley Challenged by @The_Real_Shaq
Gunaxin » Sports — ... , he made a challenge through Twitter : i wanna play this guy n horse for a thousand dollars, find him pls http://bit.ly/CK5nk8:35 PM Jun 23rd from TweetDeck Apparently Shaq is looking to give $1,000 away, and give this guy even more publicity than he has already received. Below is a collection of Bruce Manley’s amazing shots: So to follow up on the challenge, we checked ...

Shaq Tweets About Trade; Roars Like Dinosaur
The Sporting Blog — If "Ochocinco" can exist on a uniform, Shaq should go ahead and just have THE_REAL_SHAQ stitched onto the back of his new Cleveland jersey. Awake on what may be described as "NBA hours," Shaq continued to channel the diverted energy and focus from his Krispy Kreme addiction into the internet's second favorite timekiller, his Twitter account. Our nation's third largest newspaper was quite busy last night, debating the finer points of Roger Moore's work as James Bond, finding out about his trade to Cleveland and accepting congratulations, and helpfully reminding a ...

Twitter, Tell Me How My A– Trades
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog — ... @THE_REAL_SHAQ heard you got traded to the cavs. good luck back in the eastern conference. THE_REAL_SHAQ: @titans321 I did for real no I didn’t stop playin allonso: @THE_REAL_SHAQ is it true u a CLEVELAND CAVALIER THE_REAL_SHAQ: @allonso I didn’t hear dat yet DJJTR3Y: @the_real_shaq U CLEVELAND BOUND…shaq found out he was traded thru twitter! ...

Trade Day Links: Where The Big news isn’t Shaq…
Fanster.com — That's right sucka's the biggest news yesterday was this EPIC VICTORY!! The Official Site of U.S. Soccer and the U.S. Men's and Women's National Teams (Home) 2-0 over Spain? Unbelieeeeeevable!! USA! USA!! Ok, that wasn't fair to tease like that so here's something to chew on...the rumor mill is grinding away on the notion that Ben Wallace could be sent to the Hornets for Tyson Chandler. More to come on that  and yes, there was a bit of splash late last night... Shaq trade inks Did Shaq Learn of Trade on ...