Tweeting While Driving; Mr. 100

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain doing something that will never, ever be duplicated again.

Here's this issue I have with Mr. Chamberlain's amazing accomplishment: There was no media at the game this day, that's right not one single journalist was there to give us a game recap, which is really too bad because if one person would have been fortunate enough to use their brain they would have essentially had a career's worth of articles and excluvise quotes from Chamberlain.

You'd think the NBA would have been smart enough to have at least one camera at the game so they had proof of of Chamberlain's feat right? Wrong. Not sure what commissioner is to blame for that, but they rightfully deserve it. The only proof of Mr. 100 is a picture of him holding a piece of paper with the number 100 written on it.

Not exactly overwhelming evidence
photo courtesy of Bleacher Report

Just look at these two dreadful examples of terrible journalism that occured only 50 years ago. We have quite possibly the greatest feat of basektball history and no actual proof it happened. So Mr. Chamberlain, I'm happy for your accomplishment but I'm also a litte skeptical (maybe there is more proof of another record you had) but enjoy your day "Mr. 100".

I can only hope that such a crime in journalism doesnt occur again, because all of us deserve to know what actually happened.

Here's something interesting that happened this week: During a delay during the already post poned Daytona 500, Brad Keselowski took the whole social media thing to a new level.

Mr. Keselowski at the Daytona 500
Photo courtesy of Sports Grid

Here's some background: Nascar has been pushing it's athletes, oops, I mean drivers, to be more engaged in the use of social media. Mr. Keselowski hearing this decided to keep his cell phone in his car during the first race of the Nascar season which was the Daytona 500.

Photo Courtesy of By the Numbers

So during a delay, he tweeted standing outside of his car. Things then exploded.

Racing analysists cringed and complained and you know what Nascar said?

Yeah.

Do you know how awesome I think this is? Just the simple fact that Keselowski had the foresight to keep his cellphone in his car and then had the balls to send out a tweet while he's in his "office" is something I love.

Can you imagine what would happen in the Twitter universe if Aaron Rodgers was answering questions on how to read and beat the blitz during half time of a game?

Photo Courtesy of View From The Brew

I think Nascar is far ahead of the curve with allowing it's drivers to use social media during the race delays. It lets fans feel more connected and honestly it probably keeps more viewers on whatever channel the race is on during the delay.

I wont say this often, but Nascar finally did something worth talking about. Because really how exciting is it to watch a bunch of cars make left turn after left turn.

(Updated April 26th, 2012)