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Mock Draft 1.0

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*Note: These picks are made based on what I think the teams should pick from what I have been reading from many other NFL Insiders that have been talking to scouts and team personnel. These are my thoughts after compiling results from previous mock drafts from experts in the field. These are not necessarily predictions on what teams will do because I don’t have that kind of insider knowledge. Please still enjoy as my picks have been well researched.

This was a really fun experience for me to make my own, first ever mock draft for the NFL. I’ve always read a lot of mock drafts that lead up to draft day, but I’ve never been this engaged in the process until I started broadcasting with WSUM, so this was a great experience. Please enjoy.

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How Well can we Really Trust Twitter as a News Source?

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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

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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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