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.

• Maria Burns Ortiz (quickly becoming one of my favorite writers on sports and social media) has a piece on professional sports league's social media policies and the important differences between them. It goes on to list the biggest offenders of the social media policy for each league. Biggest loser: University of Idaho basketball player Kashif Watson who was suspended indefinitely. 
• After another tough loss, this time to the Detroit Lions, Cowboys QB Tony Romo needed a little comforting. Good thing Dirk Nowitzki is there for Tony with a tissue and a tweet.
• Article by Jason Peck about fans checking into MLB stadiums using foursquare, Facebook Places, and Gowalla. I honestly have not cared about sites like foursquare that have fans "check in" to places to share to their network they are at the stadium or bar watching their team... but I can't ignore it, especially if the incentives to "check in" get richer and richer.