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The Quickish 25-ish (a.k.a. "25 Folks Sports Illustrated Left Off Their List You Should Also Follow")

We love -- love! -- the folks that SI picked out to create their “Twitter 100” list and appreciate they had to cut things off somewhere.

The beauty of Twitter is the ability to follow (or unfollow) as you please, so -- in that spirit -- please consider trying out a few other folks who didn’t make SI’s list, but nonetheless have become valued Quickish favorites, either for their quick trigger to pass along news, pass along a take on the news or just pass along awesome recommendations of things to check out.

Let’s be clear: This is hardly exhaustive -- we follow hundreds and hundreds of other folks so we can pluck out the very best analysis for you, along with recommendations to all sorts of other great takes on the day’s biggest stories. But if you're not already, try these folks, too:

Katie Baker, Grantland (@katiebakes). Hockey, NFL, tennis, LAX, cloud-photo fetishist.
Bill Barnwell
, Grantland (@billbarnwell). Just wait ‘til football season.
Howard Beck, New York Times (@howardbecknyt). Great gateway to all things NBA.

Jon Bois, SBNation (@jonbois). Great for serendipitous referrals.
Will Brinson, CBSSports.com (@willbrinson). There’s huge value in his overtweeting.
Tim Burke, SportsGrid (@bubbaprog). The dean of video capture and screen-grabs.
Craig Calcaterra, NBCSports.com (@craigcalcaterra). MLB obsessive.
Emma Carmichael, Deadspin (@emmacargo). Along with Barry Patchesky (@barryap1), terrific.
Tim Dierkes, MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors). Essential for MLB and MLB Fantasy.
Doug Farrar, FootballOutsiders (@FO_DougFarrar). Go-to NFL analysis for FO and Yahoo!
Mike Florio/Gregg Rosenthal, PFT (@profootballtalk, @greggrosenthal) Wire for NFL info.
Mike Freeman, CBSSports.com (@realfreemancbs). Quick with a take on almost everything.
Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal (@jasonWSJ). Steady stream of one-liners.
Spencer Hall, SBNation (@edsbs). College football, of course. But a lot more, thankfully.
Rebkah Howard (@pink_funk). Desmond’s better half is opinionated, fun and on-point.
Dan Jenkins, Golf Digest (@danjenkinsgd). Activate during golf majors
Bomani Jones
, TheScore (@bomani_jones). So brilliant, but heavy load (82K+ tweets)
Josh Levin
, Slate (@josh_levin). Selective goodness from Slate’s SportsNut
Brooks Melchior, SportsByBrooks (@sportsbybrooks). Tapped in to everything.
Rob Neyer, SBNation (@robneyer). Free-flowing baseball commentary
John Ourand, Sports Business Journal (@Ourand_SBJ). Sports business news
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Brian Phillips, Run Of Play (@runofplay). The dean of soccer writers/Tweeters.
Erik Rydholm
, PTI (@pti). Terrific for carefully curated recommendations.
SBNation
(@sbnation). Best all-around referral service you’ll find.
JE Skeets, The Basketball Jones (@jeskeets). Try co-stars Tas Melas and Trey Kerby, too.
Emma Span, Baseball Prospectus (@emmaspan). Consistently fun and funny baseball talk.
Scott Van Pelt, ESPN (@notthefakeSVP). Authentic and current.
Ron Wechsler, ESPN (@ronwechsler). Sports, yes, but also food porn.

Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports (@danwetzel). News, analysis, referrals -- a triple-crown contender.
Tom Ziller, SBNation (@teamziller). Phenomenal gateway to the latest NBA news.

Plus a Dozen SI Folks To Follow:
Sam Amick (@sam_amick) - NBA
Will Carroll (@injuryexpert) - MLB/NFL
Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) - Recommendations
Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_SI) - NBA
Peter King (@si_peterking) - NFL
Joe Posnanski
(@jposnanski) - Everything
Joe Sheehan
 (@joe_sheehan) - MLB
Andy Staples (@andy_staples) - College Football
Pablo Torre (@sipablotorre) - Recommendations
Jimmy Traina
(@jimmytraina) - Recommendations
Jim Trotter
(@SI_jimtrotter) - NFL
Jon Wertheim (@jon_wertheim)- Tennis
Luke Winn (@lukewinn) - College Basketball

Check out previous "Best of Twitter" lists we've done:
*NBA
*NFL (for the Draft, but still applies)
*Golf
*Advice for Michael Wilbon
*Coming soon: College Football and NFL

Curated for Quickish (@quickish) by Dan Shanoff (@danshanoff) and Michael Katz (@katzm)

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