Vandy offensive line coach Herb Hand is a great guy and a fun Twitter follow. You can follow him on Twitter here. But yesterday Hand came face to face with the newest Twitter foil, someone who chose to Tweet obscene insults about his family.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the continued devolution of Twitter discourse. After all, Facebook is rapidly losing its popularity with the idiots out there, and those idiots have to go somewhere on the Internet. Of late they've picked Twitter. And I'm now to the point where I think you should have to pass a basic intelligence test to be allowed to Tweet. 

Recently, the number of people on Twitter who go after wives and kids is downright scary. 

Hell, even the mob leaves families alone.

But some on Twitter have a moral code that would even make mob bosses blush.  

Yesterday @julianbucio, a University of Tennessee fan who happens to be one of 100 or so people I have ever blocked on Twitter because he sent me similar messages attacking my family, Tweeted this to Coach Hand, "dude I think your wife is f---ing someone while you coach your pathetic football team. #slut"

By Mike Dorr

The 139th running of the Kentucky Derby is just a month away, a two-minute thoroughbred horse race that is the crowning celebration of the best six weeks of sport that America has to offer. The first half of spring brings March Madness and the Masters, baseball’s Opening Day, and the NFL draft. The NBA and Stanley Cup playoffs begin. And in Louisville, Kentucky, twenty three-year-olds will line up with 2500 pounds of jockeys, $120 million in legal wagers, and the hopes and dreams of thousands riding on their backs.  

Today Kevin Ware broke his leg and Twitter lost its mind.

In a post-game interview Rick Pitino said that Ware broke his leg in two places, it would take him a year to recover and that even while Ware's bone was sticking out of his leg he was yelling, "Win the game!"

Ware's injury was the story of the Louisville-Duke game, but what was also interesting was the online morality play that unspooled in the immediate moments after Ware's injury. Several sites, including SB Nation and USA Today, refused to post a gif of the injury, CBS elected not to replay the injury at halftime, Pete Thamel of SI Tweeted a link to a story about Kevin Ware's recruitment getting Central Florida on probation, and when I tweeted the video link to Ware's injury some reacted as if I'd just passed out Easter eggs laced with Ebola to neighborhood children.

I immediately got an email with a subject reading, "Your such an assbag." (Seriously, I can't even make up things like this).

I want to unpack all of these different threads surrounding the Kevin Ware injury because they all became stories in themselves, a real life fast-paced window into modern sports media.

In particular, what I call fauxrage rapidly took over on Twitter and other social media site. Fauxrage is distinguished from actual outrage because it's more for show than it is legitimate outrage. For whatever reason masses of people feel the need to adopt a holier than thou persona and castigate others who are not deemed to show enough deference or "class" to a particular situation. (Social media's obsession with "class" or being "classy" is worthy of a story in its own right. Who knew that Ann Landers and Dear Abby would have such an influence on Twitter? The class police are everywhere online. And when the class police unite with the offended pearl clutching masses, well, we all lose. And for a variety of reasons that happened today with Ware's injury.)

Vanderbilt football coach James Franklin, who just won the most football games at Vanderbilt since 1915, voted Notre Dame the fourth best team in the country in his final coaches ballot before the bowl games.

In doing so Franklin voted the Fighting Irish lower than any other coach in the country. That decision did not leave Fighting Irish fans very happy. Most fans took it in stride, but some went well beyond acceptable discourse. How far? Appearing on our 3HL radio show in Nashville, Franklin discussed the fallout from his ranking as part of a wide-ranging interview thirty-minute interview that I'd encourage you to listen to here.

"Over the Notre Dame (ranking), when I picked them fourth, I got death threats," Franklin said. "Stuff about my family, racial stuff, bad, I had to get the police involved it was so bad."

Asked if the those who made death threats were tracked down, Franklin replied, "Yes," but he said he elected not to press charges against those who threatened he and his family. "I didn't want to take it that far because then it (the threats) becomes public. I wanted to make them (those that threatened he and his family) sure, 'Look, we know who you are. This is probably one step too far when you're making death threats and racial stuff, things like that.'" Franklin said.

Happy Easter, sinners.

It's Good Friday which means lots of you slackers are off today and already planning how you're going to spend the evening. Hell, lots of you aren't even awake yet which means you're going to find out from the mailbag that North Korea is going to attack us.

Given that we might get wiped out by North Korea soon, it's important to keep our spirits up.

How.

With Kliff F'ing Kingsbury rapping along with Biggie at Texas Tech practice.

He also asks a player who is wearing all black whether he's murdered out.

I'm just going to assume they cut the part of the practice where Kingsbury views film from his jacuzzi with the Texas Tech dance team.

The Masters looms and suddenly Tiger Woods is back.

Again.

I know, I know, Tiger Woods has been back for three straight years. And for three straight years he's rolled into the Masters looking like the old Tiger and lost.

But this time's different.

Why?

Tiger's got his groove back.

Twitter provides perspective that snowballs into inspiration. The other day I posed a question to the community; "What's the greatest form of degenerate sports gambling you've ever been involved in yourself or seen exhibited by friends?"  Answers that came flooding in were as hysterical as they were appalling. There's a good chance a few of you may have a real gambling problem but I love you for the stories nonetheless. After much deliberation I decided that most of the responses were so off the wall they couldn't possibly be made up just for shock value. The end result of all the feedback led me to build the official gambling survey to quantify tiers of degenerate behavior.

By Brett Ungashick 

Every fan base is using this four day dead zone before the Sweet 16 to convince themselves that their team has what it takes to win the title. Let’s put a damper on those hopes before your team chokes away a game they shouldn’t have lost to an inferior opponent, and you start ending lifelong relationships because BleacherReport gave you the “5 Reasons Your Team Is Never Going To Lose Again.”

Yesterday Johnny Manziel told ESPN's Mark Schlabach he was taking a break from Twitter.

"I've kind of just shut it all off," Manziel told ESPN. "With how the media has been with me for a while, I just shut everything off. As of [Monday], I said I was done with [Twitter] for however long. It's fun to have, but it can get to be distracting at points."

Manziel's decision won't really lessen Johnny Football's popularity on Twitter -- after all, the vast majority of the attention he's gotten from social media has come from other individuals Tweeting about Manziel's actions -- but it does raise an interesting question, does Twitter become less enjoyable as the size of your Twitter audience grows? And as Twitter grows in popularity is the value of the at mentions declining?

The Florida Gators are in the Sweet 16.

As the last member of the SEC to still be playing basketball -- Alabama's quarterfinal NIT run will eventually be reclassified as a 98th football national title -- I thought it was only fair that we pay the Gators their just respects. After all, the Gators embrace both football and basketball fandom at a high level.

How do we know this?

Thanks to this Florida Gator truck, which features the fine artwork of a tailgate Michelangelo.

How do I love this tailgate -- which comes to us via reader Jim H. -- let me count the ways in another rendition of OKTC's world famous awkward fan photos.

By Brett Ungashick

In the lead up to the tournament, I kept hearing about Tom Izzo's teams. Pundits described how they always "play the right way" and "win their one-on-one match-ups" and lavished a hundred other hard-nosed, BIG 10 superlatives on them.