Matt Pilgrim can't stay out of trouble

The great thing about twitter is that is can put you in contact with anyone. Anywhere.

Eventually, athletes are going to realize this. When that time comes, maybe they will stop sending idiotic tweets.

The latest twi-ffender is Oklahoma State forward Matt Pilgrim, who hasn't exactly kept his nose clean during the offseason. Over the summer, Pilgrim had an emergency protective order filed against by a woman that had accused him of rape, and he was only allowed back onto the team on November 1st after being suspended for the first two weeks of practice by Travis Ford for a lack of dedication.


First some background. On Monday night, an OSU student was shot in the leg during a robbery attempt (Ed. Note: Not to make light of the situation, but you need to go here and scroll down to the last paragraph. I'd say the victim has a pretty fantastic outlook on life.) and took off towards campus. The school locked down the dorms and the Greek houses. When Pilgrim got word of this, he fired off a couple of tweets that offended some of his followers:

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