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Looking at your Twitter timeline, how many of those tweets do we think are actually truthful? Every viral tweet that is sent out can’t be telling the truth of a funny story that happened to them. Looking at my own timeline I see a few tweets some of my friends made that aren’t 100 percent truthful and could be stretched to make the story funnier. So, if you’re going to Twitter to find a quick news story you have to be careful on what your reading. False stories travel much faster than true stories do according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Even before President Trump made “fake news” a popular saying, the researchers were looking at over 100,000 tweets that were tweeted millions of times and found that false information travels faster and farther. This makes you question what your reading on Twitter and if whether or not you can trust everything that appears on your timeline.

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Personal Inspiration as a Broadcaster

March 12, 2018May 27, 2018 The Final Final

As an aspiring sports broadcaster, there are many reporters or on-air personalities who I could look up to and try to model myself after. What I like to listen to as a viewer is someone that has their own unique style when broadcasting. There is Mike Breen, an NBA play-by-play announcer who has his signature call “BANG” when a player makes a three-point shot or starts to “heat up” as they say in basketball. It makes the moment that much better to experience with that call. Joe Buck who knows when to fluctuate the volume of his voice at the right moments in any sport he broadcasts. While those two are a few of my favorites, my all-time, go to broadcaster that I looked up to ever since I was young was Chris Berman. To me, there was so much to learn from him as he seemed to check all the boxes of what anyone would want to listen to in a broadcaster.

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The Backlash to Retiring Early in the NFL

February 19, 2018April 16, 2018 The Final Final

Chris Borland was one of my favorite linebackers to watch growing up as not only a young Wisconsin Badger fan but an avid player of the game as well. Watching him play as a freshman and sophomore in high school was really inspiring because of how fast he played the game, how well he played the game and he played it in the right way I used to think with how he tackles. He seemed to be one of those players that had to work hard to get where he was and he respected everyone else he was competing against which is how every young player wants to be if they aren’t born with all the talent in the world, they have to work towards it. Continue reading “The Backlash to Retiring Early in the NFL” →

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Where Does the Buck Stop?

February 5, 2018April 16, 2018 The Final Final

The Milwaukee Bucks released earlier this week that star forward Jabari Parker will be returning this Friday, February 2, from his second ACL surgery to play the New York Knicks at home and will most likely be limited in playing time when he returns. This will be a rare sight for Milwaukee fans as the trio of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Jabari Parker and Khris Middleton take the floor at the same time for the first time in over two years. In fact, under the tenure of recently fired head coach Jason Kidd, in that four years that same trio has played only 11% of the total minutes together. One of the push backs for firing Kidd was he never had his three stars healthy at the same time. Nevertheless, without Kidd behind the wheel the Bucks have won 4 in a row and things are looking up. Continue reading “Where Does the Buck Stop?” →