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Will the Next Marshawn Lynch TD be ‘Heard’ from Space?

Remember when Marshawn Lynch went all Beast Mode on the New Orleans Saints and caused an earthquake? A French physicist and his colleague may have just found a way to detect earthquakes from space.  Using a gravity field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) instrument, the pair discovered clear infrasound signals from a 2011 quake […]

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LeSean McCoy the Latest Athlete To Demonstrate Pitfalls of Twitter

Philadelphia Eagles Running Back LeSean McCoy recently had a very public argument with his ex-girlfriend on Twitter. The stereotype of the “dumb jock” is one that may very well be as old as modern sport itself. Twitter isn’t doing much to improve upon it. For the past few weeks the country has been enamored with a collegiate football star’s online relationship, which began over Twitter, and turned out to be a fallacy. Most people reading the details of the bizarre story question, “How could he not know?” as one red flag after another came to fruition.

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Sports Related Video Games Increasingly Becoming More Social

As the world continues to evolve digitally and people look at their phones more as a PDA, it challenges industries to adapt new ways to reach the consumer. Thus we have the huge emergence of mobile and social communication from industries. The same can be said in the sports video game industry. Even though the […]

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Social Media Costs Brandon Jacobs Suspension and $167,000 in Lost Pay

49ers running back Brandon Jacobs was suspended for the remainder of the 2012 regular season due to posts on his social media pages A trying year for San Francisco 49ers running back Brandon Jacobs became even more awkward Monday afternoon when head coach Jim Harbaugh suspended him for the final three games of the regular season and presumably for the postseason, should the team qualify.  In a problem that is becoming much more common, Jacobs’ major undoing was his posts on social media accounts where he shared his displeasure about how the 49ers have used him this season.

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