Stephen Curry tweet at Tiger

Athletes these days have been changed by social media. At first it never seemed like a big deal, but now athletes in every sport use social media outlets (especially twitter) as a way to create content and get their opinions out in the public view. They have millions of followers (especially the star athletes) and everything that they post is heavily scrutinized. Tons of athletes and owners have been getting in trouble because things that they have posted on twitter. Some of it is justified but other times it is just the media trying to make something out of nothing. A week ago one of the top high school recruits de-committed from a school via twitter. Social media is an outlet that college coaches and recruiters have to look at now these days before offering a kid a scholarship. Who would have thought that ones twitter account could be the reason you are not offered a scholarship?! Sadly that is the case.

This past week one of the rising stars of the NBA Stephen Curry trolled the PGA superstar Tiger Woods on twitter. This past weekend Tiger Woods once again withdrew from a PGA tournament. He has failed to finish 3 of his last 8 tournaments. One might think that Tiger never will be back because he is now too old and injury prone. This past weeks injury was an unusual one. He said that "he could not activate his glutes" and that was leading to some back pain. He said that he tried to activate them but couldn't and he had to withdraw. Maybe that was an excuse for is poor performance and he just didn't want to finish.Who knows. This monday before the Golden State Warriors game (the team Stephen Curry plays for) he went to twitter and tweeted #glutesactivated. The social media world exploded and called that shots fired at Tiger. People had all sorts of reactions to this tweet by Curry. I personally think it was just a joke. I think this is one of the cases of the media making something out of nothing, but who knows. This is just one of the many cases that show how twitter has changed the sports world.