BEVERLY HILLS (MI) — Spring time is in the air, can you hear the birds tweeting? Oh wait…those aren’t birds…that sound is the current UD basketball players taking advantage of their newly reactivated Twitter accounts (warning—the player tweets might contain the occasional F-bomb):

Current UD players

Devin Oliver: http://twitter.com/Nations_Finest5

Ralph Hill: http://twitter.com/Ralphflyer50

Matt Kavanaugh: http://twitter.com/bigkav35 (protected)

Josh Benson: http://twitter.com/4THENATION_2

Josh Parker: http://twitter.com/JoshParker12

Chris Johnson: http://twitter.com/johnsonflyer4 (protected)

Paul Williams: http://twitter.com/pmacflyer22 (protected)

Luke Fabrizius: http://twitter.com/Luuuuuuke_23 (protected)

Kevin Dillard: http://twitter.com/NATIONFLY

Brian Vonderhaar: http://twitter.com/BrianVonderhaar (protected)

Mitch Asmus: http://twitter.com/WhiteFlightt

Former UD players

Chris Wright: http://twitter.com/FLYGHT33 (inactive since last July)

Devin Searcy: http://twitter.com/DevinSearcy

Logan Nourse: http://twitter.com/Logan25Nourse

Marcus Johnson: http://twitter.com/Marcus32Johnson

London Warren: http://twitter.com/LondonWarren1

Rob Lowery: http://twitter.com/Rob_lowery3

Mickey Perry: http://twitter.com/Mick_Fly00 (protected)

Norm Plummer: http://twitter.com/NPjp21

Juwan Staten: http://twitter.com/JuwanStaten3

Brandon Spearman: http://twitter.com/B_Spear32

Elsewhere on the intrawebs:

— Speaking of social media, one of the beauty parts of LinkedIn (the Facebook for business folks) is that I get a notice every time someone views my listing. So when some sleazeball barrister from a cheeseball outfit called GoEmpire Group or some twerp from Information Technology Solutions or a toolbox CPA from Grant Thornton visits my LinkedIn profile, I am fully aware of it.

— LaDontae Henton’s HS coach Rod Watts’ smartass quote to Doug Harris in the DDN was a topic of conversation at Great Lakes Hoops:

http://greatlakeshoops.com/2011/03/28/stay-classy-rod-watts-lansing-eastern-coach-embarrasses-himself-in-dayton-paper/

— Meanwhile Percy Gibson’s coach George Ward was decidedly less controversial in stating that PG to UD is still OK, at least for the time being:

http://www.detnews.com/article/20110330/SPORTS05/103300434/1049/sports05/Detroit-Southeastern’s-Percy-Gibson-still-Dayton-bound–for-now

— Are Henton and Gibson really still coming to UD? I’ll ask them that question at the All-Michigan Classic Game for which both players have been nominated to play on April 15th in Fashionable Ferndale.

— Lost in all of the BG-to-GT hubbub was the fact that Gregory’s primary competition to replace Tom Izzo should TI ever leave MSU, Sparty Associate Head Coach Mark Montgomery, quietly took the job at Northern Illinois:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/basketball/ncaa/mens-tournament/2011/03/23/niu.coach.ap/

Montgomery’s first hire at NIU? Former Saginaw HS coach Lou Dawkins:

http://greatlakeshoops.com/2011/03/24/former-saginaw-high-head-coach-lou-dawkins-to-northern-illinois/

His second hire? Former UD Assistant Coach Jon Borovich who tells Doug Harris that he will “always have a little Flyer in me”:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/daytonflyers/entries/2011/03/30/ud_assistant_sad_flyer_days_ar.html?cxtype=feedbot

— Former meteorologist (who knew?) Ken Pomeroy is the “go-to guy of college hoops” according to The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/sports/ncaabasketball/24ncaa.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&ref=sports

— Speaking of Kenny, here’s a kinda self-serving piece on why he feels that RPI is a lousy metric to select NCAA participants from Slate magazine:

http://www.slate.com/id/2288042/pagenum/all/

— Consumer activist Ralph Nader wants to eliminate scholarships for college student-athletes:

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_7382.shtml

Stick to Corvairs why don’t you, Ralphie?

— Ever wonder what happened to the popular sports video streaming website channelsurfing.net? The Department of Homeland Security happened, that’s what:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/12/group-challenges-arrest-man-linking-websites/

— Think that it’s easy playing hoops overseas for a living? Think again:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/the_bonus/03/22/israel.hoops/index.html

— Tremendous back-story on the greatest whodunnit movie ever made, “All the President’s Men” from Vanity Fair:

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2011/04/robert-redford-201104?currentPage=1

— When Ryan Westmoreland steps to the plate at Fenway Park in a few years it will complete the greatest comeback in sports history, bar none:

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2011/03/20/red_sox_prospect_ryan_westmorelands_long_road_back_from_brain_surgery/?page=9

— “Sweet Tweet of the Week” comes from ESPN.com’s Jay Bilas:

Bill Raftery, interrupting a story he was telling me: “Geez, don’t go tweeting this, will ya.”

That’s it “From the Swamp.”
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