In the sports world this week, the Twitter chatter was dominated by feuds: Floyd Mayweather challenged Manny Pacquiao, Delonte West called out a reporter, and the University of Kentucky occupied Kroger.
Posted on Jan 14, 2012 Updated on Jun 2, 2021, 10:41 pm CDT
Welcome to the Week in Twitter in Sports, a new feature where we’ll look back at notable ways athletes have intersected with Twitter, or Twitter with athletes, in the seven days prior.
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A former senior politics reporter for the Daily Dot, Kevin Collier focuses on privacy, cybersecurity, and issues of importance to the open internet. Since leaving the Daily Dot in March 2016, he has served as a reporter for Vocativ and a cybersecurity correspondent for BuzzFeed.