Latest on Sports and Social Media Policy

The public has been hearing alot lately about how National Sports teams are responding to their players, coaches and staff using Social media, especially twitter.

The NFL recently reinforced its reputation as the “No Fun League” by banning all social media activity by players, their representatives, and team .

Now the NBA has taken a milder stance and declared that in-game tweeting is banned. Further that  it appears as if most other social media activity is okay but treated much like other forms of media communication have been sanctioned all along.

For example, players and coaches that take to social media to criticize officials can still expect to receive fines from the league. ESPN reports though, that individual teams will still have discretion to add their own rules on top of those imposed by the NBA.

But it seems that a college team has taken enforcement on Social Media a little bit further. Following a few suspect tweets by Texas Tech team members, Coach Mike Leach has announced that players are now banned altogether from Twitter.

SportingNews also reports that offensive lineman Brandon Carter, was

suspended indefinitely for violating team rules and his Twitter page was nowhere to be found.

The tweets inquestion were not particularly heinous but rather reflected team dissatisfaction and lack of harmony within the team and would shed a bad light on Leach and his team’s morale.You be the judge:

The SEC which initially banned all social media from stadiums eventually relaxed its ruling.  Texas Tech  has imposed the harshest sanctions of even the national teams.