Gathering the Clouds

Gathering the Clouds is a weekly entry that scours the web bringing together the most important links on sports and social media.

• Incredible article on Athletes and Social Media and how some play the social game right and others decide to use social media to talk to their mistress. And we thought that Brett Favre was the only one who couldn't keep it in his Wranglers.
• Check out information on the IOC's social media policy for London 2012. Here's an excerpt: "The IOC recommends that postings, blogs or tweets should be in a first-person, diary-type format and should not be in a journalistic style". Now there's some regulation... sounds more like Berlin 1936.
• Great article by Kalia Strong that delves into the social media policies for London 2012, NFL, and UFC. With UFC's pioneering deregulation policy on social media by President Dana White, the league is now renamed the Ultimate Facebook Championship.
• A post on the dangers of mixing social media and athletes by Dave Thomas. Forget about cocaine, this is the new vice of athletes. Love the part about the Texas Tech football player tweeting about being offended that the coach is late to the meeting. What ever happened to complaining to your teammates in the huddle? Isn't that what they do half the time in there?