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The Oklahoman sports department is deeply concerned about athletes on Twitter

1:00 PM EST on December 15, 2011

Last Sunday, Travis Haney, the University of Oklahoma football's excellent (really!) beat writer for the Oklahoman, used his column inches to warn athletes that they should think twice before using Twitter:

If I tweeted disparaging or sarcastic things about other newspapers and their writers, surely there would be consequences – either with my employer, or with them directly. What good comes from saying those things? “Dang…Iowa.” What good comes from that?