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How Facebook Can Influence The BCS
Christian Vuong | November 7th, 2008
Okay, follow me for a second. This is far from a game like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but it sure comes close. If Facebook, Myspace & other social networks can lead to the downfall of teachers and pageant queens what’s not to say popular college athletes can’t fall victim to a scandal? As recently reported on Bevo Sports, Texas Longhorn head coach Mack Brown has kicked lineman Buck Burnette off the team for an unspecified violation of team rules. While the team won’t directly comment, numerous news sources cite that Burnette updated his facebook status with some very racially charged comments following Barack Obama’s win of the presidential election. Since then, Burnette has deleted his profile and issued a formal apology on the matter. Clearly I have made a mistake and apologized for it and will pay for it. I received it as a text message from an acquaintance and immaturely put it up on facebook in the light of the election. Im not racist and apologize for offending you. I grew up on a ranch in a small town where that was a real thing and I need to grow up. I sincerely am sorry for being ignorant in thinking that it would be ok to write that publicly and apologize to you in particular. I have to be more mature than to put the reputation of my team at stake and to spread that kind of hate which I dont even believe in. Once again, I sincerely Continue reading…
Tags: bcs, buck burnette, facebook, football, myspace, ncaa, scandal, social media profiles, texas longhorns
Posted in Internet News | 3 Comments
A Needed Facelift?
Marissa Allen | June 16th, 2008
Myspace has a big competitor, FaceBook. What myspace is doing to give itself a ‘FaceLift’ to compete with FaceBook and other web 2.0 social networking sites.
Tags: can myspace compete, myspace, myspace changes, myspace facelift, myspace updates, myspace vs facebook
Posted in Internet News | 6 Comments
