Retweet of the Day - March 19, 2013

Dunks happen every night in the NBA. They happen dozens of times every night in every game. The basketball is a vertical game at the NBA level.

Every now and then, however, a dunk is so impressive that it is worthy of a highlight reel. Some dunks are so nasty that the defender ends up being an afterthought as he is posterized. But every so often, a few times per year, someone gets dunked on so badly that he is as memorable or more memorable as the person doing the dunking.

Last week, DeAndre Jordan of the Los Angeles Clippers made Brandon Knight of the Pistons into a headliner for all of the wrong reasons. Last night, LeBron James gave the Celtics' Jason Terry his 15 minutes of infamy. That is the inspiration of today's Retweet, by SportsPickle @sportspickle

"Brandon Knight would like to thank Jason Terry for getting dunked on last night."

Brandon Knight passed the torch to Jason Terry. If I see Jerry reaching out to me, I'd pull my hand back at the last second and say, "PSYCHE!"

Retweet of the Day - January 24, 2013

I have said, since the beginning of the Manti Te'o girlfriend flap, that I wanted as little to do with this story as possible. I don't think it is a meaningful sports story or even a significant human interest story. Naive people, particularly young people, have been getting taken for a ride on the Internet since the mid-1990s.

The public has a sharp difference of opinion. If I am not giving you what you are interested in, then I am not producing a meaningful blog. So it is with some reluctance that I discuss the impetus for today's retweet.

Te'o was interviewed by journalist Katie Couric. Te'o said that he found out after the fact that the male orchestrator of the Lennay Kekua hoax, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, was the person with whom Te'o spoke on the phone for hours. Te'o released some voicemails to Couric of the woman he believed to be Ms. Kekua.

If you listen to the voicemails, the female impersonation is very convincing. Very convincing.... From "catfishing" to "The Crying Game", here is today's retweet, by SportsPickle (@sportspickle)

"Manti Te'o Says He is a Chronic Bedwetter in Attempt to Create Less Embarrassing Narrative About Himself - http://is.gd/BXFc3U"

Manti Te'o's first endorsement as an NFL player.

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Retweet of the Day - June 12, 2012

The Hat Trick typically covers five areas of sports: NFL, MLB, NBA, NCAA football, and NCAA basketball. Still, when a champion is crowned in a major sports league, such as the NHL, it is tough to gloss over the achievement. When it happens in the historic manner in which it did, with an 8th seed bringing a franchise its first, ever, championship, it is Hat Trick newsworthy.

Still, being based in Louisiana, I am in the heart of college football country. That makes today's Retweet of the Day perfect for both the latest news and my locale. Today's RT of the day is from SportsPickle (@sportspickle). Joe Saturdays everywhere can appreciate this one. It has been retweeted nearly 800 times already.

"An 8-seed is about to win the Cup. If the NHL had the BCS system, the Kings would have played in the Kraft Fight Hunger Hockey Bowl."

No arguments from me.

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