Social Media: The Wild, Wild West of Sports & How Athletes Can Avoid Its Pitfalls

By Miles Cooley and Jamie Zagoria, of Kelley Drye   Introduction   Laremy Tunsil woke up on April 28, 2016 — the first day of the 2016 NFL draft — with the world at his feet. The Ole Miss offensive lineman was a shoo-in to be drafted in the top ten later that day. Fast forward a few hours and, indeed, all eyes were on Tunsil, but not because he was selected first in the draft. Rather, just moments before the draft began, a purported hacker posted a video to Tunsil’s Twitter accou