Problem Tweets

My name is Brian Zagorac. I am a junior at Slippery Rock University and a Sport Management major. I play for the Slippery Rock Ice Hockey team, and have played hockey and baseball my whole life. I have scouted for junior hockey, taught summer hockey camps, wrote for sports websites and helped coach former teams. I have a major problem with twitter and the sporting world. Athletes seem to always cause a stir with controversial tweets, such as Houstan Texans running back Arians Foster posting a picture of his injured hamstring, showing that more damage was done than initially disclosed to the media. Not only did this worry fans, but it also had opposing team doctors noting how severe the injury actually was. Foster put himself before his team. Although he probably had good intentions, he needed to keep this quiet. Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall also caused a stir when he posted about Osama bin Laden's death, implying bin Laden could have been innocent. I have no problem with Mendenhall's personal opinion, but when he represents a high-class franchise such as the Pittsburgh Steelers, and works for an owner who also happens be the U.S. ambassador to Ireland and then posts such a tweet, it becomes a problem. It is a free country and players should be allowed to use twitter, as long as they use their brain before using their mouse.