The Finger Wag – Athletes using Twitter and Social Media to their Disadvantage

Sometimes I just like to post a Desean Jackson tweet to see if anyone knows what the hell he is talking about:

Anyone? Anyone?

I have never once said running this site if hard to do, or that Willie and I pull all nighters figuring out how to entertain you. I take great pride when someone tells me that what I have written was witty and gave them a chuckle. I think we have a good thing going here.

That being said though, I have just been one-upped. I never thought we would be outdone in mocking athlete’s social interaction with their fans by one of those athletes.

Then came Lolo Jones yesterday:

Thanks Lolo, I will now go hang my head in shame.

If you didn’t see the ending of tonights Bulls vs. Cavs contest, Lebron James went nuts.

The game wasn’t especially close, but the Bulls just couldn’t stop James from scoring how ever he wanted. It’s like the Cavs took that horrendous isolation strategy that cost them a trip to the finals last year and made it actually work.

Aside from some brilliant finishing moves, Lebron also lit up the interwebs. Here’s a review…

Whoops. That last one wasn’t about Lebron… as far as we can tell.

Most of you probably heard Tiger Woods is returning to golf this week and that he held a press conference this after.

I agree completely with Thurman here. I thought the conference was good and he seemed very open. I just can’t wait to see the guy play some golf again.

And now another perspective,

Oh yeah, dope shirt indeed.

Welcome back to another fun filled Monday morning.  It was a fairly big weekend in sports so here are some bullet point highlights of what
went down.

Donovan McNabb to the Eagles

Yes I have to agree trading McNabb within the division is probably not a smart move but take a second and look at the Eagles draft picks for this year:

- 1st Round
- 2nd Round (Skins)
- 2nd Round
- 3rd Round (Seahawks)
- 3rd Round
- 4th Round
- 4th Round (Browns)
- 5th Round (Browns)
- 7th Round (Comp Pick)
- 7th Round (Comp Pick)

If Kevin Kolb is anything near a serviceable quarterback in 2 years
time the Eagles should be stacked for a long run of playoff
appearances.

As for the Redskins, I had this to say last night via @TheFingerWag

The Golden Girls of running backs plus an aging Quarterback behind a high school football teams offensive line does not seem to add up to a deep playoff run.

NCAA Tournament

This weekend we had the Final Four games with Butler and Duke
advancing.  The Butler game had 2 entertaining minutes while the Duke game bested them with 0 minutes of watchable hoops.

I plan on doing a post later today or tomorrow on the 96 game
expansion (everyone else did, why not ScottiePP7?) and in it I will
explain why I can’t respect college sports.

For now though, I am going with Butler +7.5.  Just saying.

NBA Playoff Push

So while I was watching the Duke game I ended up switching over to an entertaining Bulls and Bobcats game in Chicago.  The Bulls ended up winning with a late game comeback and are now just 1 game back from Toronto who chocked away a game with Golden State in OT despite Bosh’s 42 points.

The Milwaukee Bucks who were also looking to position themselves for the playoffs saw their dreams shattered along with Andrew Bogut’s arm on a gruesome injury that occurred when Bogut landed on his arm after a dunk (and a slight push from Amare Stoudemire

Amare has this to say…

Well ok then, all is well I guess.

Coach K

Amid his NCAA Title push and the playoffs approaching for the NBA rumors are circulating that Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is willing to pay Coach Krzyzewski up to 15 million a year to coach the New Jersey Nets.

Yes Jeremy, damn those rich Russians.  The country that made bread lines famous.