... While we have monitored what other leagues/NGBs are doing, USA Basketball has not placed any social media guidelines on its athletes and coaches. Instead, we have tried to address with our ... that you are attempting to assemble the very best team possible and that does not always mean taking the 12 best basketball players. We have learned you have to have role players and develop team chemistry, ...

... his career. I remember the somber press conference well. I was never much of a basketball fan, but this was Magic-freaking-Johnson. He was one of ... a hero to millions. He was bigger than Dr. J. (the only basketball player I ever had a poster of). The news hit hard on ... we insist we must fight tooth and nail to protect it. Social media has opened up a can of worms and I fear some of the wiggly-woos ...

... “virtual colleague.” I was struck with how well he does media, and I attribute that to his experience as both an improv comic and advanced ... difference between a golf player and a basketball teammate. In corporations, the social-media expert rarely has completely ... 8217;re doing the exact opposite thing that conversational media requires. You’re listening to your own ego and its biases ...

I recently caught up with the Chief Media and Communications Officer for USA Basketball, Craig Miller, to talk about social media, breaking into the sports media industry, and the 2010 World Championships. To read the interview, click on the picture above or just click here. Enjoy your weekend!

Six years ago, basketball star Kobe Bryant was arrested for sexual assault involved a young woman ... a digital tsunami, slamming into his life again and again. While the traditional media coverage of Woods’ “transgressions” ... the victim’s misfortune. Another fascinating angle to social media and how much we know about what people are doing is the amount of information that’ ...

... Fab Five series with Jalen Rose , which highlights trends in the social media space. Jalen Rose is a former 13-year NBA star and current ESPN basketball analyst but may be best known for being a member of the famous University of Michigan Fab ... not exist, and professional athletes had to go through the media to show their personalities and communicate with their fans Buy me a Beer[Click Here] ...

... to---Huffington Post, No Depression, ESPN, Duke Basketball Report, Lifehacker---and I find that these have in fact replaced our ... s Too Big To Fail. 11. A closing thought: social media has not replaced personal interaction with people----I ... more books than I should. So it is not an "all or nothing" endeavor. The point is that social media has been a positive element in my daily life, ...

... are following the current fuel cell issue, with interest piqued... Houston, we've finally got a Shuttle launch, social media style. The launch of STS-129 is scheduled to happen in about 1.5 hours (11:28AM PST/ 19 ... via the #NASAtweetup hashtag: "Edwin Hubble was an all-star basketball player? the things u find out when following the #nasatweetup !" @teobesta ...

... 's social media policy. According to an article on HuffingtonPost.com, Simmons – author of “The Book of Basketball,” which recently reached #1 on the New York Times non- ... While bad-mouthing or trash-talking between co-workers is nothing new, the explosion of social media usage by employees both on and off the job is largely unchartered territory for ...

... of meaningless bowl games. Even the highest profile media “defender” of the BCS, Stewart Mandel ... . Amazingly, this is the only piece we could find on ESPN.com about the BCS and social media. It was penned by a freelancer and may as well have been written by a member of ... the merits of an 18-game season. Its college basketball reporters write about the silly minority that wants to expand ...

... sports broadcasting landscape has changed recently as social media and other technologies have permeated into sports reporting ... sports shows have traditionally always been interactive, the print media has been traditionaly a push medium.  Until now with the enormous ... A bit of both it seems.  On The FAN 590 website, as the basketball beat reporter he was given the added duty of providing ...

Just came across this amazing montage from Steady Burn. Apparently Mike and his social media day job are moving offices tomorrow, and on the short list of wants for his new digs is a Nerf basketball hoop to hang over his door. In the process of searching for the perfect one, he put together the

... blocks (1.9), tied for eighth in total rebounds (52) and second in three-point field goal % (.552). Mookie Jones leads the nation in forlorn, post-game social media diatribes (1.3 FPGSMDPG). Wes Johnson leads the nation in Making Fans Say "Holy F***balls!" Per Dunk % (.725) James Southerland is tied ...

... 'Antoni....I think the answer is pretty clear Nurse’s Notes: Energy Win Pre-Season Opener- Energy Hoopla – Iowa Energy Basketball Social Site Check out the break down from Coach Nurse...there's a couple of Centers there I am keeping my eye one. Watkins and Baron. Curtis Stinson is also one of the top PG ...

... challenge to the twin notions of hot and cool media conjured up by Marshal's book nearly derailing ... chapter because sport isn't interesting, sport is a media/social object for (generally speaking) allowing ... American (strange fruit hangs differently) basketball players. Did I just write that? Yes. But nobody will question it. Nobody ever does. I digress. Where was I? Oh yeah ...