In its current state, absolutely. That would be really cool actually. I do have some more sports specific enhancements on the roadmap which may or may not fit well with general topics groups of tweeters.
Hey thanks man! ESPN has a handful of open apis that I'm using, mainly the atheltes and teams resources. Check out the full list at http://developer.espn.com/docs
I've heard this comment from a number of people, thanks for posting. I agree, an aggregate of bloggers/writer alongside player tweets would be a nice added value, thinkin' on it.
Wow, thank you. To be honest I'm quite new to js, especially backbone and those other util libs like underscore. Really appreciate the CR, will fix shortly.