Tiger Woods Twitter account started up and shortly after the estranged athlete Tweeted, “What’s up everyone. Finally decided to try out twitter!” the world’s most famous golfer had well over 200,000 followers.

Doesn’t seem fair for others in the sports Twitter land, like our fearless editor and some of our writers, who struggle to find a few followers each day and end up with a few if they’re lucky with half of those being spammers trying to sell you something. Kidding aside, it’s great to see Tiger making his way back into society as he should.

One has to assume the main embarrassment is gone that surrounded his difficulty in keeping the snake in his pants travelling on the PGA Tour over the past several years. Yeah that run included a laundry list of women some who would be considered on the slutty side (Google porn actresses) but hey the guy led a reserved life knowing little besides golf then suddenly found women of all kinds throwing himself at his feet—he caved like a lot of guys have.

So, good luck hitting a million followers, Tiger. Ochocinco had to offer $10,000 to get a boast in followship and finally hit the milestone and it took Shaq a bit of time to hit that million mark as well but I have a feeling your account may top all the athletes before it’s all over.

Tiger Woods Twitter account can be found here. Stop by and send him a message.

MORE: How to find your favorite athlete on Twitter – Sports Climax

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Ilya Kovalchuk shootout attempts have brought fans to their feet for years at Philips Arena while he was a player for the Atlanta Thrashers. That wasn’t the case last night while donning his New Jersey Devils jersey:

That gaffe put the Devils on the losing end of a 5-4 game against the Buffalo Sabres and here’s a fun fact.

The Russian speedster packed his bags and moved to New Jersey where he signed a record $100-plus

million contract that will keep him in N.J. for more than a decade. And the 23-year-old rookie, Niclas Bergfors, that was traded for Kovy at the deadline last year has 4 goals and 6 assists for 10 points in 12 games while Kovy lags behind with just 3 goals and 5 assists for 8 points in 15 games.

Kovy does however maintain a 1-0 lead in blooper reels thus far in 2010 with this humorous shootout attempt.

It would have been better to trip. . . at least he could have blamed a chip in the ice.

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Sidney Crosby fight. You heard it right, Sid “the Kid” dropped the gloves last night in a game against the Dallas Stars. It wasn’t the first time Crosby has thrown ’em down and after seeing the results it may not be the last.

Crosby has had about five fights to date in the NHL not counting the altercation when he attacked the “junk” of a defenseless Atlanta Thrashers player and brought new meaning to “punching bags”.

Last night’s fight appeared to be more ethical as far as unwritten rules regarding NHL fights go. Both participants appeared ready to fight and defend themselves.

As much as Cindy haters will hate to admit it, Crosby held his own and actually won the throw-down.

Is Matt Niskanen really that much of a pussy!

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Disgruntled wide receiver Randy Moss separated from Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots after making just nine catches in four games. He headed a little northwest and jumped on the Brett Favre bandwagon, you know the one with the broken wheel that’s barely being kept on the road by driver, Minnesota Vikings coach Brad Childress.

Moss is shown here showing with his fingers how many games he lasted with the Vikings and after just those four games, his relationship became too chilly for Chilly. So Moss was waived today by the Vikings. Yep, this marriage is annulled, didn’t even last long enough to be a divorce.

What a shock.  Or is it?

At Monday’s waiver deadline, Moss was not on that list meaning maybe the Vikes have reconsidered and are trying to trade him OR Childress is so twisted from all the turmoil this 2-5 season that he can’t make up his mind what to do.

Moss got bitch-slapped by the Vikes either way. If he stays he’s been humiliated by his coach who allegedly told the team Moss was gone and if he goes, well, he’s failed on two teams in a contract year. Moss was hoping to gain negotiating momentum heading into this year season and must have assumed being teamed up with Favre might produce numbers advantageous to that cause.

However after four games wearing purple, Moss has barely grazed the stat sheet with 13 receptions and just one catch for eight yards last week against his former team the Patriots.

After praising the Patriots and doing one of those classic post-game pressers containing potential shit-stirring undertones, Childress bitch-slapped Moss right out the door.

Well now we know that Chilly is the boss of that locker room. . . . or is that other guy who is said to like sending penis pics through sext messages?

Any way you wanna cut it, Randy Moss gets our Bitch-Slap-of-the-Week.

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Looks like all the hype over LeBron James going to South Beach and the Big Three in Miami becoming the villains of the NBA may produce some staggering numbers for the league.

NBA.com reported record-setting ratings for the NBA Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics and L.A. Lakers vs. Houston Rockets games last night. With the Heat and Celtics match-up being one of the most anticipated season openers in NBA history, that’s no surprise.

TNT’s second game of a double header followed the Celtics victory over Miami and the Big Three and included the Lakers receiving their NBA Championship rings and raising the team’s banner courtside in Los Angeles.

The viewing audience was reported to average a 3.5 US rating, 5,493,000 total viewers and 4,025,000 households for the night.

Of those figures, the Heat vs. Celtics game earned a 4.6 US rating and had 7,433,000 total viewers and 5,339,000 households, making it the most viewed NBA regular season game of all-time on cable TV, beating out the LA Lakers vs. Chicago Bulls game back on Feb. 2, 1996.

The game two on TNT in Los Angeles last night delivered a 2.4 US rating, 3,719,000 total viewers and 2,823,000 households.

NBA: Heat Fizzle out, Celts win 88-80 – Sports Climax

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This week in Boston, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler did one of the worst renditions of the National Anthem, ever. Earplugs recommended:

Jose Feliciano took a lot of slack in his rendition of the National Anthem during the 1968 World Series before a game between Detroit and St.Louis. The blind Puerto Rican singer did his soul version that was possibly the first non-traditional delivery of the song in its history.

Years after Feliciano’s rendition created an uproar during the much more conservative era, other entertainers like Roseanne Barr and now most recently Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler. Tyler makes Feliciano’s performance look like a patriotic gem.

Could you imagine these vocals coupled with the Jimi Hendrix guitar version.

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What should we think of a San Francisco 49ers player who walks away from the NFL for God with the desire to concentrate on ministry?

Have to assume churches across the globe were first screaming “Hallelujah!” but what are those congregations chanting now that Glen Coffee has an arrest record that includes carrying a concealed weapon.

While up in the panhandle of Florida earlier this month, Fort Walton Beach busted Coffee and charged him with possession of a concealed firearm. The pistol was said to have been cocked and ready while sitting in the console of his 2008 Cadillac.

Coffee, who was originally pulled over for excessive speeding, also couldn’t show registration or proof of insurance for his ride so his car was towed and impounded.

There’s a shot of the Glen Coffee mugshot that was taken in his temporary orange colored uniform before he was discharged and we welcome him here as the newest member of our Jocks Behind Bars.

If Coffee ends up being a straight shooter and is still out trying to start up a church, it’ll be interesting to see what kind of ministry a dude who carries a loaded, cocked gun in his Cadillac may try to start.

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College football rankings are in for the AP Top 25 after another No. 1 got upset for the second straight week. Last week it was Alabama falling to the South Carolina Gamecocks and this weekend it was Ohio State dropping a game against Big Ten rival Wisconsin Badgers.

Last week’s No. 2 team, the Oregon Ducks, learned the meaning of “backing in” as they sat idle and moved up into the spot vacated by the Buckeye’s’ loss.

The Boise State Broncos sit at No. 2 with 15 first-place votes, up from No. 3 last week.

Dropped from last week’s AP Top 25 rankings are Florida (yes the Gators are finally sitting outside looking in), Nevada, Air Force and Oregon State.

 Below is the list of all Top 25 teams:

Associated Press Top 25

1. Oregon (39) (6-0)
2. Boise State (15) (6-0)
3. Oklahoma (3) (6-0)
4. TCU (3) (7-0)
5. Auburn (7-0)
6. LSU (7-0)
7. Alabama (6-1)
8. Michigan State (7-0)
9. Utah (6-0)
10. Wisconsin (6-1)
11. Ohio State 6-1
12. Stanford (5-1)
13. Iowa (5-1)
14. Nebraska (5-1)
15. Arizona (5-1)
16. Florida State (6-1)
17. Oklahoma State (6-0)
18. Missouri (6-0)
19. South Carolina (4-2)
20. West Virginia (5-1)
21. Arkansas (4-2)
22. Texas (4-2)
23. Virginia Tech (5-2)
24. Mississippi State (5-2)
25. Miami FL. (4-2)

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College football rankings are in for the AP Top 25 and this is why so many people think these polls are about as good as a used piece of toilet paper.

On Saturday, the No. 19 South Carolina Gamecocks beat the dog shit outta the No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide. After the ‘Cocks victory where would you vote them to be in the newest rankings?

Well, the votes are in and Alabama (5-1) dropped to No. 8, two ahead of the team that beat them last week; our beloved ‘Cocks (4-1) sit at No. 10. BTW the USA Today has ‘Bama sitting at No. 8 and South Carolina all the way down at No. 12.

‘Nuf said on that ‘cause we could write a whole book on this topic and if I do it, you may need to hide the women and children when it gets released. We learn something about NCAAF every week.

Back to the results, the No. 1 spot now belongs to “The” Ohio State Buckeyes who stayed unbeaten at 6-0 and accumulated 34 first-place votes while West Virginia snuck into the No. 25 spot.

Oh, almost forgot to mention, Boise State sits at No. 3 and got 8 first place votes for having a blue field and the Florida Gators and Oregon State somehow remained in with two losses each.

Below is the list of all Top 25 teams:

Associated Press Top 25

1.      Ohio State (34) 6-0

2.      Oregon (15) (6-0)

3.      Boise State (8) (5-0)

4.      TCU (1) (6-0)

5.      Nebraska (5-0)

6.      Oklahoma (2) (5-0)

7.      Auburn (6-0)

8.      Alabama (5-1)

9.      LSU (6-0)

10.  South Carolina (4-1)

11.  Utah (5-0)

12.  Arkansas (4-1)

13.  Michigan State (6-0)

14.  Stanford (5-1)

15.  Iowa (5-1)

16.  Florida State (5-1)

17.  Arizona (4-1)

18.  Wisconsin (5-1)

19.  Nevada (6-0)

20.  Oklahoma State (5-0)

21.  Missouri (5-0)

22.  Florida (4-2)

23.  Air Force (5-1)

24.  Oregon State (3-2)

25.  West Virginia (4-1)

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The Carolina Panthers WR Dwayne Jarrett became the newest member of our Jocks Behind Bars when he was for possible DWI.

According to the police in the Charlotte area where the arrest occurred, Jarrett was stopped while cruising down Interstate 77 around 2 AM on Tuesday when the car he was driving had no tag on it.

The police report suggested that when the cop pulled him and approached the car, that Jarrett’s eyes were bloodshot, the player had slurred speech and appeared disoriented.

After doing a lousy job at the “are you shitfaced tonight” tests, Jarrett was taken to the slammer where he refused to any further testing. The cops responded by obtaining a search warrant that allowed him to take his blood for testing.

During the ordeal he was booked and cheesed for the mugshot shown here.

Back in 2008, Jarrett went through a similar arrest and ended up pleading guilty to that charge after blowing or testing with a .12 which is over the .08 legal limit.

That time, he is said to have run a red light, this time he is said to not have had tags on his vehicle. Dude, get proper tags and drive like it’s Driver’s Ed class when you’re coming home from partying in the middle of the night!

BTW, going into Week 5 in the NFL, Jarrett had just two catches for 40 yards and the team responded by cutting him shortly after the arrest.

Here’s a copy of the police report.

MORE: Jocks Behind Bars – Sports Climax

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