BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — 44 year ago, Marshall McLuhan wrote “The Medium is the Message”; these days, it’s oftentimes more like ‘the media is a mess’ especially for the social variety. Here are some good, bad and ugly examples:

— The very first factoid in this piece from College Chalk Talk’s Secondary Break is an eye-opener for any Flyer fan and not in a good way:

http://secondarybreak.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/i-wish-i-knew/

— Tom Markowski of The Detroit News says the leader in the clubhouse for Michigan Mr. Basketball is our man “Buckets”:

http://www.detnews.com/article/20110131/OPINION03/101310356/1340/sports05/State+s+Mr.+Basketball+award+is+up+for+grabs

Despite Xavier fans’ claims to the contrary, Jalen Reynolds will not win the award this year.

— Why doesn’t BG install this in-bounds play into the Flyer repertoire?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM4XmCiuX64&feature=player_embedded

— Providence recruit Ricardo Ledo recently backed off of his verbal commitment. As this excellent profile from the Projo details, the kid has been thru some serious sh*t in his 18 years:

http://www.projo.com/pc/content/Ricky_Ledo_PC_Friars_Reynolds_02-03-11_CTMA4P_v2.d3a7f9.html

Ledo is now on his 4th high school and just moved to my alma mater, Notre Dame Prep in Fitchburg, MA.

— Bob Ryan tries to figure out whose game BYU superman Jimmer Fredette reminds him of the most and comes up with a pretty good comp in Scott Skiles:

http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/mens_basketball/articles/2011/01/30/comparing_notes_on_a_hidden_treasure/?page=full

— TSN Mike provides us with reason #521 why internet bloggers should never print rumor, gossip or innuendo as fact:

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/story/2011-02-03/syracuse-caught-in-an-internet-of-falsehoods

— Mississippi State basketball coach Rick Stansbury is about 6 months behind BG in prohibiting his players from using Twitter…and a day late and a dollar short in the case of his star hoopster, Renardo Sidney:

http://rushthecourt.net/2011/02/03/twitter-silence-at-mississippi-state/

— Meanwhile, across campus a certain Mississippi State football fan is the new poster child for why fans shouldn’t mess with recruiting prospects on Facebook:

http://eye-on-recruiting.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/26895818/27246989

— How to dunk yourself:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=103_1296266787

— Historic Hinkle Fieldhouse is set to receive $700,000 in preservation funds. I wonder…does that include the cost of replacing that busted water fountain?

http://beyondthearc.nbcsports.com/2011/02/02/hinkle-fieldhouse-to-receive-700000-in-preservation-funds/

— How cool is this? Video games allow disabled athletes to play in the majors:

http://espn.go.com/espn/thelife/videogames/blog/_/name/thegamer/id/6054027/association-disabled-virtual-athletes-debuts-show?readmore=fullstory

— I’m totally with Joe Posnanski on this one — it’s time for the NFL Pro Bowl to go bye-bye:

http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2011/01/get-rid-of-pro-bowl.html#more

— “The Sweet Tweet of the Week” comes to us from Gregg Doyel of CBS Sportsline while covering the Super Bowl media week circus in Big D:

“Never seen Jersey Shore. Don’t know The Situation. But there’s a douchebag in Ed Hardy pants on radio row. Bet it’s him.”

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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