Category Archives: sports

Twitter should be illegal … says Mike Francesa

This post contains video, click here if you are having trouble viewing. Earlier this week WFAN’s Mike Francesa had an awesome rant on Twitter. Some of the top sound bites include Twitter should be illegal, one of these days someone will monetize it and Twitter cuts the middle man out of sports journalism.

Samsung creates Olympic Genome

This post contains video; click here if you are having trouble viewing. Anyone who reads this blog with any kind of regularity knows that there are two things that I am very passionate about – sports and social media. So needless to say, when I see an initiative that mixes the two, I get geeked…

Social Media’s NFL Week 1 Picks

I am not sure about you, but today feels a lot like Christmas morning to me. Instead of a whole bunch of presents that say that they are from Santa, the NFL has given us a juicy season opener between the New Orleans Saints and the defending Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers. Like many…

Can you pick NFL games better than Social Buzz can?

In exactly one week from today, the most exciting season on TV starts up. No I am not talking Real Housewives or Big Bootied Weddings, but the hard hits of the National Football League. Now as with any season, there will be folks making their weekly predictions based on everything from their gut to uniform…

A social media focus group in the 99-year old home of the Red Sox

Anyone who reads this blog regularly can attest to my passion for social media and for exploring ways companies can leverage these technologies to better interact with their customers. What you may not know is that I am also a huge Red Sox fan. So when I got an invitation from the Boston Red Sox…

Putting up a Steel Curtain on Social Media

This post originally ran on PR Breakfast Club, but I wanted to share with you in case you missed it over there. A few weeks back, pundits noted that Twitter had its moment. The 140-character service was on fire with tweets mentioning the death of Osama Bin Laden at a rate that traditional news outlets…

ESPN – Wicked Local

I really love how ESPN gets their commercials hyper local. This one with Dustin Pedroia is especially awesome on two fronts. One he is my hight and is called the laser show and two, Esposito is referenced as the best. A win-win in my book. Thanks to Nick Gosselin for pointing this out — RELAX….