Twitter, tweet, twit.

Lions cornerback Aaron Berry didn't exactly endear himself to the hard-hit Detroit citizenry when he answered critical tweets about his team's playoff loss to the Saints with one of his own:

"Y'all can go back to being Broke & Miserable ... now back to regular scheduled programming ... "

News flash

Dateline New Orleans: Bama's Jeremy Shelley first kicker ever accused of running up the score.

Pins and needles

Former Reds shortstop Barry Larkin was the only player elected in this year's Baseball Hall of Fame voting.

Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Roger Clemens get their first shot, so to speak, in 2013.

It's Chuck: duck

Snippet from a sideline exchange from TNT analysts Reggie Miller and Charles Barkley after the Heat — minus superstars LeBron James and Dwayne Wade — still managed to win:

• Miller: "That's a huge win for Miami and a black eye for the Atlanta Hawks."

• Barkley: "I wish I could punch them in the other eye."

The book on Tiger

Hank Haney, Tiger Woods' former swing coach, has authored a book — "The Big Miss" — about the six years he spent coaching the world's greatest golfer.

So what's next, a different breed of swing coach plans to write "Tiger's Scorecard"?

Geography on ice

The National Hockey League's zany divisional setup will stay the same for at least another year, meaning the Florida Panthers and Winnipeg Jets will remain Southeast Division rivals.

Noted Budd Bailey of the Buffalo (N.Y.) News: "The same guys who admitted Boise State into the Big East Conference apparently have moved into hockey."

Talking the talk

• Chris Chase of Yahoo.com, on CBS postgame hosts James Brown, Dan Marino, Bill Cowher, Shannon Sharpe and Boomer Esiason taking a collective Tebow elbow after the Broncos' playoff victory: "You don't want to know what they'd have done if Roethlisberger had won."

• ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, on New Hampshire hosting two Republican debates in just 12 hours: "And this is just the regular season. Wait until the playoffs."

• NBC's Jay Leno, on Tiger Woods' ex, Elin Nordegren, demolishing her $12 million mansion in Florida, "Here's the amazing part: She did it with a 9-iron."

• Janice Hough of LeftCoastSportsBabe.com, after ex-Denver great John Elway urged QB Tim Tebow to "pull the trigger" in the playoffs: "Probably a good thing the Broncos didn't sign Plaxico Burress."

• Times reader Charlie Gay, on Alabama's 21-0 BCS win: "Ninety-two yards of total offense? LSU's coach is going to have to change his name to Less Inches."

Low-post lobster

Nice D-League nickname: the Maine Red Claws.

You've gotta love their chances in crunch time.

Dwight Perry: 206-464-8250 or dperry@seattletimes.com