Twitter is the social networking flavor of the month that’s stormed on the scene like MySpace and FaceBook. There’s no telling how long the site’s popularity will last; the next big thing could have 130 or 150 characters and blow Twitter out of the water like seven minute abs did to eight minute abs.

Athletes are using Twitter to cut the media middleman and let us, the fans, into their personal lives. Here’s what some popular jocks were tweeting about yesterday. Read the full story

Wilt Chamberlain is one of the 10 greatest NBA players of all-time, the only player to score 100 points in a game, and he claimed to have slept with 20,000 women. Those accolades didn’t prevent him being in bad car commercials. Read the full story

Shaquille O’Neal called in to DJ Whoo Kid’s Shade 45 show on Saturday during Game 6 of the Cavaliers-Magic series. The Diesel discusses Superman II and explains street rule #25. Read the full story

Dwight Howard knocked down the shot clock atop of the Orlando Magic basket with a monster dunk in the first quarter against the Cleveland Cavaliers. The jam doesn’t reach the level of Darryl Dawkins or Shaquille O’Neal tearing down a basket, but it’s still impressive. Read the full story

Shaquille O’Neal went all out in what will probably be his last NBA All-Star game. He did a dance routine with the Jabbawockeez, split MVP honors with Kobe Bryant, and clowned Dwight Howard with a between the legs pass and slam dunk.

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Jump and bump to NESW Sports for this video of Dwight Howard impersonating Shaquille O’Neal. Dwight pulls it off for about three seconds before devolving into a Dikembe Mutombo/Yoda voice.

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A few months back I had some photos from a Vitamin Water commercial shoot featuring Brian Urlacher, Adrian Peterson, David Ortiz, Dwight Howard, 50 Cent and Carrie Underwood dressed as astronauts. Here’s the finished product.

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