Another Chapter in the Continuing Series of Social Media Gaffes in Sports

Despite a plethora of precedent in every sport, and examples made out of people of all ages and races, athletes around the world continue to show why they get paid for what the body can do, and not the mind. Less than a month into 2011, there were already numerous missteps by athletes in the world of Twitter. There continue to be gaffes, some offensive while others just absurd, made by professional athletes who still don’t understand the ‘social’ part of social media.