Several other athletes have been ensnared by their own inappropriate Twitter comments
JR Radcliffe
Josh Hader made dubious off-the-field news Tuesday on a night that was supposed to highlight his gifts on the field. Tweets surfaced from his teenage years running a gamut of racist, homophobic and sexist sentiments and language.
Hader apologized for his tweets from 2011 and 2012, when he was 17, following the 2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Washington, D.C.
He's not the first pro or college athlete to get ensnared by his own words, past or present, with social media serving as the medium.
In fact, popular Twitter account "Old Player Tweets" specializes in cataloging tweets both current and older that express controversial, graphic or off-color thoughts.
In a recent example, Villanova basketball standout Donte DiVincenzo -- who was to become the first-round draft pick of the Milwaukee Bucks -- was revealed to have tweeted a number of graphic thoughts from 2011 and 2012, when he was 14 and 15 years old.
DiVincenzo, who had just been named Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA Final Four as he helped the Wildcats to the title, had not used his Twitter account in close to two years.
In October of 2016, Packers wide receiver Geronimo Allison apologized for a series of sexually explicit tweets from 2012, when he was 18 years old.
Both DiVincenzo and Allison deleted their accounts thereafter.
In late April, racist tweets surfaced on the account belonging to NFL Draft hopeful Josh Allen, posted two years before he enrolled at the University of Wyoming. Allen had been a contender to be taken with the first overall pick and went seventh to the Buffalo Bills.
Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Laremy Tunsil fell a bit down draft boards when, in the moments before the 2016 NFL Draft, a video was posted to his Twitter account showing him smoking from a bong.
Shortly after he was taken 13th by the Dolphins, his Instagram account posted a text-message exchange that portrayed him asking for illegal payments from a member of the Ole Miss coaching staff. In this case, it appeared someone intentionally gained access to his account and put forth the damning offerings.
In 2016, Mariners player Steve Clevenger was suspended after posting inflammatory tweets about the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In 2014, Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard got in hot water over 2011 tweets using offensive language toward LeBron James after he joined the Miami Heat.