Justin Case You Were Wondering

TweetShare    What really happened here? I guess that’s where you have to start right? As a PR pro, it’s always vitally important to know what you’re dealing with. And unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few days, you probably know a lot about the sexual assault charges against former Penn State [...]

TweetShare  The 9/11 tributes around the sporting world yesterday were amazing. Football fields filled with family members of victims, firefighters, police officers and first responders all carrying the same flag. Candlelight tributes on Sunday Night Baseball from Citi Field with familiar faces from 2001 tributes — John Franco, Mike Piazza and Marc Anthony -  as [...]

TweetShare                      We’ve all crossed the line before. That said, people have different definitions of what is crossing the line. And some people just really don’t care. There always seem to be a few incidents like this each year with college football coaches when it comes [...]

TweetShare                        During Sunday’s final round of the Masters, I learned a few things about Tiger Woods: Fans are still rooting for him to be in contention even if he doesn’t win. I asked my Facebook friends if they would root for Tiger if he [...]

TweetShare                    Have you ever seen the movie Blue Chips? Nick Nolte plays a college basketball coach who has always toed the line but isn’t winning as much as he used to. He’s adamant about not breaking the rules, so the folks around him (boosters, coaches, players) [...]

TweetShare                  It’s Sweet 16 time. And no, I don’t mean an overpriced birthday party for some spoiled teenager whose daddy promised her a new beamer and a C-level rap star to impress her friends. No offense, MTV. Since the NCAA tourney starts up again tonight, I figured [...]

TweetShare                Do you remember where you were when you first heard newspapers were on the snide? I was in grad school working on a Newspaper Readership Institute Project with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Our task — figure out how to get 18-34 year olds to read the newspaper [...]

TweetShareIf you’re a fan of crime shows, you might have caught the new drama Detroit 1-8-7 a time or two over the past few months. Friday night, there was a different type of mystery on display in Philadelphia — Detroit Less Than Seven. As in the number of players (six) Pistons Coach John Kuester decided [...]

You’ve heard the story by now. The deadline passed last week without the best player in major league baseball, Albert Pujols, and the St. Louis Cardinals agreeing to a contract extension. That means at the end of this season, Pujols has the right to test the free agent waters. Disaster for St. Louis baseball? Another greedy professional athlete asking for too much money? Or maybe, just maybe, a well-organized PR plan on both sides?

At this point, I think it’s official. The conversation about the Groupon Super Bowl ads has actually passed the amount of conversation about the game itself. One week later, Packers and Steelers fans are still talking about the game. But everyone else is talking about Groupon. You want to know why? Because in the social deals Super Bowl, Groupon is the only team qualified to take the field.

Rick Stansbury doesn’t get it. And he’s not the first. Stansbury is just the latest in what’s becoming a long line of college coaches (see Mike Leach) who have banned their teams from using Twitter in what can’t be seen as anything but a last-ditch grasp at maintaining control.