Tweet Beat: Olympic Fever!

As part of the never-ending quest to bring you University of Kentucky news in the most ridiculous manner possible, I comb the Twitter-verse each week for the funniest, oddest, and sometimes, nearly illegible tweets from your favorite players and personalities. Basically, I read Twitter so you don’t have to. Without further ado, here are the best tweets of the week.

Do you have Olympic fever? Me too, so much so that I actually watched Fencing today. Don’t worry, we’re not alone: your favorite former Cats are enjoying the games as well. Here are some of their favorite sports:

TABLE TENNIS:

I’m sitting here watching one of my favorite events in the Olympics. Ping pong don’t hate. It takes skills and for the shark I let u win

— Tony Delk (@tldelk00) August 1, 2012

(WOMEN’S) BEACH VOLLEYBALL:

I was jus informed I missed the brazil vball game! Heard it was a beautiful sight!! Lol

— Jodie Meeks (@Jmeeks20) July 31, 2012

Oooh volleyball girls.. I love you. #Olympics

— Perry Stevenson (@PSteve2122) July 30, 2012

GYMNASTICS

Been watching the Olympics tonight. Love the Gymnastics .

— keYLa(@KeylaSnowden) July 30, 2012

SWIMMING

Man these swimmers in the 400m freestyle are unbelievable athletes

— chuck hayes (@c_hayes44) July 29, 2012

BEACH…CYCLING?

What about Beach-Cycling in 2016?

— Rex Chapman (@rexchapman) July 30, 2012

TRACK AND FIELD

I can’t wait to watch #trackI love the runners #femalerunners especially lol

— Wayne Turner (@ThaBurner) July 28, 2012

EATING

You wish you had this twitter.com/DLamb20/status…

— Doron Lamb (@DLamb20) July 28, 2012

Jon Hood need an intro song, people. Get to work.

With BBM closing in, cant help but to think about a walk out song? Any suggestions?

— Jon Hood (@hoodyhood4) July 27, 2012

Here’s my suggestion:

Not to sound like a total mom, but Willie, be careful:

Did a 360 on the tube today out on the lake #craziestshitever

— ☆WillieCauleyStein☆ (@WCS15timefor9) July 28, 2012

Alex, I believe it’s “TWANY inch blades.” SMH…rookies.

Wanna be a baller, shot caller.Twenty inch blades on the Impala.

— Alex Poythress (@AlexTheGreat22) July 28, 2012

But, I enjoy seeing tweets like this:

Late night workout with @a1laflare10 and @jmays34

— Alex Poythress (@AlexTheGreat22) July 29, 2012

Suddenly, my old Target gym bag seems pretty pathetic:

Don’t geek me and @richyp69 gym bags twitter.com/DLamb20/status…

— Doron Lamb (@DLamb20) August 2, 2012

Of course John Wall and Michael Phelps tweet each other.

No prob and yessir !!RT @michaelphelps: Thanks bro!! See ya stateside RT @john_wall: @michaelphelps good luck homie

— John Wall (@John_Wall) July 27, 2012

Ramel Bradley is clearly Team Edward:

I knew there was a reason why I disliked that Twilight girl.. cheating lil sleezeball! Guess Rob won’t be fighting that wolf boy anymore lol

— Ramel Smooth Bradley (@dreamsmooth) August 1, 2012

And this is why I love Perry Stevenson:

I kid you not.. The powerline concert in A Goofy Movie is and will allways be a favorite of mine. #EyetoEye

— Perry Stevenson (@PSteve2122) July 31, 2012

TMI, Jorts, TMI…

My boy @kminnick21 just took a dump and didn’t even lace the toilette with toilette paper!!! Haha

— Josh Harrellson (@BigJorts55) July 31, 2012

Things that make sense in life: Derek Anderson being Homecoming King.

Great time and memories!!! twitter.com/DerekLAnderson…

— Derek L. Anderson(@DerekLAnderson) July 29, 2012

Speaking of Derek, he stopped by Jodie Meeks’ basketball camp last week. #lafamilia

At my LiL bro @jmeeks20 Camp speaking to the kids and hanging out twitter.com/DerekLAnderson…

— Derek L. Anderson(@DerekLAnderson) July 28, 2012

Please tell me there’s a double basketball-related meaning to Jodie’s shirt. Otherwise, not sure it’s the best thing to wear to a children’s basketball camp…

Raise your hand if you’re excited for this!

I ask myself this about people everyday:

How u act Hollywood and u ain’t never been there…

— demarcus cousins(@boogiecousins) July 27, 2012

Frog gigging? Can someone explain?

Maxwell Smith‘s got the right attitude about this year’s schedule:

So we play 3 of the top 10 teams in the country… Could be worse considering we have 5 in the top 10 #SEC

— Maxwell Smith (@Maxwe11uk) August 2, 2012

I’m sorry, is there an age limit at Two Keys now? #ohboyd

girl you 35 in two keys…and you mad…get a life.

— Aaron Boydâ„¢ (@Oh_Boyd) August 1, 2012

Random tweet: I’m thinking about joining the illuminati

— La’Rod King (@Kingof_UK) July 29, 2012

That is random.

It was too hard to pick just one “Bookie Tweet of the Week” this go around, so I picked two (I love making the rules). Both show Bookie is more than ready to play some football:

Idk for some reason I’m tweaking for camp to come.. So everybody who doubted us.. #WeAreUK y’all gon see a different side of UK..

— Bookie aka Flya â„¢103 (@bookie3_FLYA) August 1, 2012

I sure hope so. Until next time, RT plz?