Posts Tagged ‘Gaffes’

Guillen, Gabbidon, and Other Gaffes: The Latest in Dumb Sports Tweets

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It would seem at some point athletes would learn not to go to Twitter when they are angry. Thankfully for sports fans, when emotions are running high, professionals don’t know where else to turn it seems. Here are the latest in what is a continuing and likely never-ending series collecting dumb sports tweets that lead to either embarrassment, fines, or a shutdown of the account. They do all share one thing in common: they elicit the question, “what were you thinking?” Read more

Another Chapter in the Continuing Series of Social Media Gaffes in Sports

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Despite a plethora of precedent in every sport, and examples made out of people of all ages and races, athletes around the world continue to show why their skills involve the body and not the mind. Less than a month into 2011, there were already numerous missteps by athletes in the world of Twitter.

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