Meaningful Speech

I found an interesting article titled "Learning From the Pros" in Sports Illustrated that mentions what star athletes are talking about on popular social media sites. The author of this article Chris Ballard spent four days reading professional sport stars blogs, facebook pages, and twitter feeds. He thought all he would read was self promotion attempts and mundanity, but he was proven wrong. Olympic Swimmer Ian Crocker had a twitter post that told everyone to start spending money, for the U.S. can get out of this deep recession we are in. Another example is Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas giving his fans a picture of the rigors of NBA training.