BEVERLY HILLS (MI) -- 44 year ago, Marshall McLuhan wrote “The Medium is the Message”; these days, it’s oftentimes more like 'the media is a mess' especially for the social variety. Here are some good, bad and ugly examples:
-- The very first factoid in this piece from College Chalk Talk’s Secondary Break is an eye-opener for any Flyer fan and not in a good way:
http://secondarybreak.wordpress.com/...i-wish-i-knew/
-- Tom Markowski of
The Detroit News says the leader in the clubhouse for Michigan Mr. Basketball is our man “Buckets”:
http://www.detnews.com/article/20110...s+up+for+grabs
Despite
Xavier fans’ claims to the contrary, Jalen Reynolds will not win the award this year.
-- Why doesn’t BG install this in-bounds play into the Flyer repertoire?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM4Xm...layer_embedded
-- Providence recruit Ricardo Ledo recently backed off of his verbal commitment. As this excellent profile from the
Projo details, the kid has been thru some serious sh*t in his 18 years:
http://www.projo.com/pc/content/Rick...v2.d3a7f9.html
Ledo is now on his 4th high school and just moved to my alma mater, Notre Dame Prep in Fitchburg, MA.
-- Bob Ryan tries to figure out whose game BYU superman Jimmer Fredette reminds him of the most and comes up with a pretty good comp in Scott Skiles:
http://www.boston.com/sports/college...ure/?page=full
-- TSN Mike provides us with reason #521 why internet bloggers should never print rumor, gossip or innuendo as fact:
http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-bas...-of-falsehoods
-- Mississippi State basketball coach Rick Stansbury is about 6 months behind BG in prohibiting his players from using Twitter...and a day late and a dollar short in the case of his star hoopster, Renardo Sidney:
http://rushthecourt.net/2011/02/03/t...issippi-state/
-- Meanwhile, across campus a certain Mississippi State football fan is the new poster child for why fans shouldn’t mess with recruiting prospects on Facebook:
http://eye-on-recruiting.blogs.cbssp...95818/27246989
-- How to dunk yourself:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=103_1296266787
-- Historic Hinkle Fieldhouse is set to receive $700,000 in preservation funds. I wonder…does that include the cost of replacing that busted water fountain?
http://beyondthearc.nbcsports.com/20...rvation-funds/
-- How cool is this? Video games allow disabled athletes to play in the majors:
http://espn.go.com/espn/thelife/vide...more=fullstory
-- I’m totally with Joe Posnanski on this one -- it’s time for the NFL Pro Bowl to go bye-bye:
http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/201...bowl.html#more
-- “The Sweet Tweet of the Week” comes to us from Gregg Doyel of CBS Sportsline while covering the Super Bowl media week circus in Big D:
“Never seen Jersey Shore. Don't know The Situation. But there's a douchebag in Ed Hardy pants on radio row. Bet it's him.”
That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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