Posted on Jan 9, 2012 Updated on Jun 2, 2021, 10:56 pm CDT
Welcome to this week in sports tweets, a new feature where we’ll look back at the notable ways athletes have intersected with Twitter, or Twitter with athletes, in the seven days prior.
We’re not here to retweet what LeBron says he had for breakfast or sports news that was reported on Twitter. We’re here to show you the tweets behind the news.
Photo illustration by Kevin Collier with images from leeander and Fernando Ariotti.
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.