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Ok is it me or is this Twitter thing, especially when it comes to athletics, getting a little creepy? Call me old fashioned, but when adult men or women start following the musings of a 17 to 18 year-old-kid, I find that a bit disturbing. Twitter has, like My Space and Facebook before it, blown up on the pop culture scene and thus found its way into college athletics and recruiting. Coaches tweet, or twit or whatever they call it. So do players current and potentially future players. This is where I see the most problems with the Twitter craze. Professional athletes were the first ones I heard ...

This sort of post always exists—the post on a message board criticising people for using the pronoun "we." The posts are usually about the same: An angry English junkie is telling people that they aren't on the team, and therefore, he can't use "we" when referring to his team. The authors of these posts want a difference to be shown between people that are actually members of the program, and people that want the program to succeed. So is it correct to use the "we" term? It is debatable, but the answer is "yes." There are certain rules that should be followed when ...

  People coming to and from their seat at any sporting event are just part of going to a game. Yet, we have all been to games when people abuse the good nature of the fans sitting around them by leaving and coming to their seats at random. These fans have forgotten the basic common courtesy that should be shown for the fans they are sitting next to at games. Likewise, many fans become overly critical of fans leaving their seats at all. If you have ever been to any BYU sporting event you know the favorite saying of the older fans ...

Whether you bring them yourself or you're just sitting next to them, kids come to sporting events. It is a great thing, for the most part, to sit next to young kids at a sporting event. Usually, there is a little more work (putting up with a more movement in the seats, more cheering, and entering/leaving of the seat) you have to put forth while watching the game. Yet, seeing the happiness of victory or the disappointment of defeat in the attitudes of these young fans really makes it fun. Lately though the family friendliness of sporting events have taken hits. ...

Miami, Fla.—Three of the state of Florida's most talented football alumni are playing for a little more than a shot at the Super Bowl this season, they're playing for a variety of youth programs around Florida, as well as their hometowns and current NFL cities around the country through the ‘Yards for Youth' campaign.   Anquan Boldin (Florida State University), Percy Harvin (University of Florida) and Andre Johnson (University of Miami) have established themselves as some of football's most elite playmakers.  As leaders, they're coming together to create awareness and donations for youth programs through the Make a Play Foundation, ...

As a writer who seems to specialize in the "xoxo" of the game, I often set out on a journalistic journey of sorts when I put words to paper. Although my intention is a good one, the motive often becomes a concentrated effort to elicit a certain response. I'm not sure if it is a gift or simply the willingness to open up my heart, but more often than not, my goal is to make my audience feel the sorrow associated with an event. To warm the heart by moistening the heart. To make my readers feel the pain that ...

In the not so distant past the New York Yankees embodied everything good about baseball and America.  Slowly that faded.  Yankee lore officially died on August 19, 2006—ground breaking day of New Yankee Stadium. This is a story about corporate greed, political cronyism, and arrogant negligence to the neighborhood where the ghosts of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, and Thurman Munson occasionally pitch tent and drink beers with ghost fans of those "Bronx Bombers".   The new and the old Yankee Stadiums both stand in New York state's 16th Congressional District.  Outside of the beltway, it is more commonly known as ...

We Care, Leroy No matter what the details are, We take this time, to say, we care. So many people lives you've touch, So many times you share.   I do not want you to shed those tears of love you have for people near and far from you, One thing we know, you care.   So we give back at this dear time, a word of care to you, To let you know that we are here, just pulling to see you through   This special time in your dear life, please know, we care, we love you, too.   Take care, be strong, a tower of strength so others can begin to see the radiance in your life, was given ...

To be successful in this world, most of us are taught to think "within the box". We follow guidelines that are universal so we really don't look like fools. We follow rules so we don't get in trouble and draw attention to ourselves. Unfortunately, in this day and age, not everyone follow the rules. The rich and famous seem to have blatant disregard for the rules and laws. Athletes are a double threat since most of the time they are physically imposing and intimidating. In the old days, players would booze it up, and come to play hung over. ...

World-class surfer Lani Doherty's full name is Kaiulani, a Hawaiian name which translates to "Highest Place in Heaven." One can only imagine that when the 16-year-old phenom from Maui finds herself ripping through the surf enveloped by a 20-foot wave, that is exactly where she believes herself to be.  But things haven't always felt "heaven-sent" for the teenaged ripper from the Aloha State, who recently finished ninth in the world at the Quiksilver International Surfing Association (ISA) World Event in Ecuador. Doherty had to overcome her fair share of adversity on her way to the crest of the wave, and currently finds ...