Tweets of the Week: 7/3/2012

By Will T. - Posted on 03 July 2012

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Without a doubt, last week was one of the wildest weeks on Twitter in recent memory. From the NBA Draft and the incessant booing, to Wimbledon (my favorite tennis tournament) getting cranked up, to Euro 2012 coming to a close, and of course, CNN's enormous blunder regarding the SCOTUS decision upholding the health care mandate, we've got a little bit of everything on this edition of Tweets of the Week!

 

The NBA draft came and went last week, and if you like trades, and GM's just wheelin' and dealin' (David Khan, where for art thou?), this was not the draft for you. Very little activity in terms of big name players being moved. Most of the noise generated at the draft was from the audience relentlessly booing David Stern every time he walked to the podium. This provided some hilarious pauses from Stern that got longer each time he went to the podium, as he seemed to just soak up the boos like the perfect wrasslin' heel that he is. Twitter provided much of the rest of the comedy for the NBA draft, and if you're a Game of Thrones fan like myself, Luke Zimmerman easily had the best tweet out of all of them, as you'll see below.

 

There seems to be a recurring trend at Wimbledon lately of absurdly long five set matches, ever since Isner and Mahut took three days to finish their 11+ hour match two years ago. Not sure why that trend is happening, but @CelebrityHotTub (who if you aren't following, you aren't doing Twitter right) pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter perfectly. At any rate, the tennis so far this year has been tremendous, but shhhhh! Don't tell Darren Rovell, he still thinks tennis is a dying sport. Richard Deitsch, as you'll see below, absolutely eviscerates Rovell about his views on tennis (and his subsequent move back to ESPN).

 

Euro 2012 finished up with Spain crushing the Italians' remarkable run to the finals, but probably the most controversial moment of the tournament happened in Spain's semifinal match against Portugal that ended up going to penalties. In what has to be considered one of the biggest blunders in sports history, for some boneheaded reason, Portugal decided not to use Ronaldo, widely considered the best soccer player in the world. My only theory is that Portugal was planning to use Ronaldo last, but why on EARTH didn't they switch him to first, especially after Spain's first PK attempt was blocked, is absolutely baffling, and as you'll see in the GIF below from @SBNationGIF, Ronaldo was none too pleased. 

 

The last (and certainly most embarrasing, if you're CNN) major storyline happened thanks in large part to CNN's enormous reporting gaff regarding the US Supreme Court's decision on President Obama's heathcare law. Someone at Ted Turner's network really wanted to get the jump on being the first network to report the SCOTUS decision, and amazingly, incorrectly reported that the healthcare mandate requiring all citizens to buy health insurance was ruled unconstitutional, when in fact, SCOTUS upheld nearly all of the entire heathcare law. This lead to an enormous amount of hilarity on Twitter, with people fake and mockingly RT'ing CNN (seriously, I could've done an entire post on just tweets from this story). Let's just say it's a good thing Will McEvoy doesn't work for CNN - that would've been one ugly episode of News Night.

 

Other quick hits from the past week:

 

  • Katie Holmes is divorcing Tom Cruise. I mean, come on, who didn't see that coming? Both @Mengus22 and the Sklar Brothers hit 450ft home runs with their jokes about TomKat's impending divorce.
     
  • Tiger Woods won for the third time this year, most of any player on tour. Is a major tournament victory around the corner? Seems to be the budding #narrative everyone's talking about. I for one certainly hope so - golf needs Sunday Tiger.
     
  • Jose Canseco wants every one of his followers to know that he is the "Real Life Kenny Powers." I'd make a joke, but Canseco pretty much just did it for me. 
     
  • One of Michael Jordan's sons was arrested last week, and the mugshot is pretty spectacular. Check @TheSportsHernia below for the link.
     
  • Finally, as if Sean Payton wasn't having a crappy enough year already, he and his wife are reportedly divorcing. As you'll see below, @FauxJohnMadden has a pretty solid reason as to why they're divorcing.

 

That's a wrap for this edition of the IHJJR Tweets of the Week! Got a nomination? Send me (@thrillis4) a tweet/DM with the hashtag #IHJJRTweetsOfTheWeek or #IHJJRTOTW. Enjoy everybody!

 

Will blogs about all things college football for IHJJR. He is also frequently found on Twitter, with thoughts covering most all sports, pop culture and totally random trivia.

 

Follow Will on Twitter: @thrillis4


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