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ballhype.com - 4/16/2009
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Last October, Jeff Clark from CelticsBlog coordinated yet
another team-by-team season preview, featuring 63 NBA bloggers this...
time. As in 2006-07 and 2007-08 , overoptimism was a general trend. As a result, this season brought plenty of disappointment: bloggers predicted a total of 236 more ...
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Reviewing the NBA Blog Previews, 08-09
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ballhype.com - 9/3/2008
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As we prepare to enjoy another NFL season,
we hooked up with the fine fellows of the...
Fan-Sided Blogs network for some prediction. Each of the Fan-Sided bloggers predicted the finishing order of the 32 teams. Were fans biased toward their own team? Which squad is the consensus ...
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Fan-Sided Predicts the NFL Season, Team by Team
ballhype.com - 7/30/2008
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For this latest entry in the BallHype Spotlight
Series , we tapped two fantastic writers: TheStarterWife of...
Black and Gold Tchotchkes and Signal to Noise of, um, Signal to Noise . Both have been involved in the excellent Deadspin Book Club . Here, they'll debate the notion of whether Olympians should feel compelled to speak out on China's human rights record and Darfur while competing in ...
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Fightin' Words: Should Olympians Be Compelled to Protest ...
ballhype.com - 7/9/2008
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[By Tom Ziller ] Inspired by Vanity Fair's
recent Blogopticon and my long romance with maps ,...
we decide to stick some of the most well-known sports blogs into a graphical graph graphic. I present: THE BLOGDOME ATLAS . ( Click to enlarge .) (As I said, click to enlarge . The large version is prettier. And clickable.) Some preliminary notes. - I didn't include your blog ...
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The Blogdome Atlas
ballhype.com - 6/12/2008
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Welcome to the BallHype Spotlight Series , Volume
3: Fightin' Words , a series of debates on...
sporting subjects vital and trivial. In this edition, Patrick Smith and David Chalk of the fantastic baseball blog Bugs & Cranks provide a counterpoint on whether ESPN's obsession with the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox is good for baseball fans. We begin with Mr. Chalk. Enjoy. ...
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Fightin' Words: On ESPN's Obsession With YANKS vs SAWX
ballhype.com - 6/10/2008
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As a part of BallHype's ongoing Spotlight Series ,
we asked several bloggers to participate in a roundtable...
on the issue of "humanizing athletes." Do drunk athlete photos bring fans closer to the players? Or has the blog age pushed them even further away? Tom Ziller moderated the panel, which included: Nik Richie, TheDirty.com Will Leitch, Deadspin Brooks Melchior, Sports ...
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Blog Huddle: Do Blogs Really Help Fans Get Closer to ...
ballhype.com - 5/27/2008
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With all the irrepressible superlatives the draft season
brings, a few dirty words make their way into...
our collective lexicon. Tweener. Below-the-rim player. Combo guard. The last of these has killed many a draft stock price, sending fine college guards into the late first round purgatory generally filled with white power forwards, 5'11 point guards, and 18-year-old Frenchmen no one but the ...
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Ballad for the Combo Guard
ballhype.com - 5/22/2008
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The Hornets fell just short of advancing to
the Western Conference Finals, but Chris Paul's play was...
surely one of the highlights of the first two rounds. There's been a lot of talk about Paul's ascension to the NBA elite, and John Hollinger named him as his early playoffs MVP . In only his third season in the league, and at 22 years old (an age at which many of the all-time greats hadn't ...
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BREAKING: Chris Paul is Really Good
ballhype.com - 4/29/2008
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PostmanE and PostmanR are the almost identically
pseudonymed dudes that blog at We Are the Postmen...
, FanHouse , Inside the Hall , Y! Sports Blogs , ESPN The Magazine and, now, for BallHype. In the second edition of Fightin' Words, they settle the one settleable argument: Best. Sports blog. Ever. Enjoy. PostmanE: R and I spend a lot of time arguing about sports ...
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Fightin' Words: Best. Sports Blog. Ever?
ballhype.com - 4/17/2008
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Last October, Jeff Clark from CelticsBlog coordinated yet
another team-by-team look at the 2007-08 season, featuring dozens...
of NBA bloggers. And once again, there was more than enough optimism to go around in the preseason ... with disappointment for many fans once the real games begun.
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Reviewing the NBA Blog Previews, 07-08
ballhype.com - 3/27/2008
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Welcome to the BallHype Spotlight Series , Volume
3: Fightin' Words , a series of debates on...
sporting subjects vital and trivial. In this edition, Clevelander Scott Sargent ( profile ) of Waiting For Next Year and Philadelphian Matt P ( profile ) of The 700 Level argue over which of their cities is the most cursed sports town in America. Enjoy. ...
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Fightin' Words: The Most Cursed Sports City -- Cleveland ...
ballhype.com - 3/25/2008
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For some time now, Deadspin has been running
their Media Approval Ratings series --daily polls which ask...
readers their opinion of various members of the sports media. Some of the results have been predictable , others somewhat surprising , and on the whole, they've been very interesting. Several times, I've found myself wanting to compare the results, so I decided to put something ...
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Deadspin's Media Approval Leaderboard
ballhype.com - 3/25/2008
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Welcome to the BallHype Spotlight Series , Volume
3: Fightin' Words , a series of debates on...
sporting subjects vital and trivial. In this edition, Dan Shanoff of DanShanoff.com and The Sporting Blog argues that the NBA is becoming a niche sport. His opponent: Tom Ziller of NBA FanHouse and Sactown Royalty . Enjoy. Shanoff: The once-hallowed "Big Four" ...
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Fightin' Words: Is the NBA Becoming a Niche Sport?
ballhype.com - 3/13/2008
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Welcome to the BallHype Spotlight Series , Volume
2: Bibilotech, a series of essays about books. In...
this edition, M. Haubs of The Painted Area discusses five sports books he's excited to see this year... and five he wishes were written . Enjoy. Last summer, we noted in our regular moonlighting space that the past few years seemed to be something of a golden age for ...
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Bibliotech: The Golden Age of Sports Books
ballhype.com - 3/12/2008
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Welcome to the BallHype Spotlight Series , Volume
2: Bibilotech, a series of essays about books. In...
this edition, Geoff Young of Ducksnorts tells you how to quit your job and write a book (or two) . Enjoy. In August 2006, I got the bright idea of writing a book based on my Padres blog, Ducksnorts . I'd published a couple "Best Of" eBooks in the past that relied ...
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Bibliotech: "How to Quit Your Job and Write a Book (Or Two)"
ballhype.com - 2/20/2008
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Welcome to the BallHype Spotlight Series ,
Volume 2: Bibilotech, a series of essays about books....
In this edition, Ty Keenan ( FanHouse , FreeDarko ) discusses his thesis on Gravity's Rainbow and the concurrent Warriors playoff run. Enjoy. From the beginning of last April to the middle of May, my life was occupied by little more than two activities: following ...
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Bibliotech: The Warriors and Thomas Pynchon
ballhype.com - 2/13/2008
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Welcome to the BallHype Spotlight Series , Volume
2: Bibilotech, a series of essays about books. In...
this edition, the illustrious Bill Walton reviews God Save the Fan by Will Leitch of Deadspin . Enjoy. There are few things on this planet better than the feeling of curling up under the stars with a sleeping bag and a good book. The scent of warmed papyrus takes me back to a day ...
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Bibliotech: Bill Walton Reviews "God Save the Fan"
ballhype.com - 2/11/2008
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Welcome to the BallHype Spotlight Series ,
Volume 2: Bibilotech, a series of essays about books....
In this edition, John Krolik ( SportsHubLA , FreeDarko ) takes us through an analysis of Darcy Frey's The Last Shot with today's sensibilities. Enjoy. Darcy Frey's The Last Shot is not about basketball. It can't be. Basketball is a diversion, a game played for the benefit of ...
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Bibliotech: Darcy Frey's "The Last Shot"
ballhype.com - 2/6/2008
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Welcome to the BallHype Spotlight Series , Volume
2: Bibilotech, a series of essays about books. Jay...
Busbee is the creator of the Southern sports blog Sports Gone South and the Atlanta sports blog Right Down Peachtree . (He was more Landry than Riggins in high school, but then, weren’t we all?) His essay is on the effects of Hollywood on Friday Night Lights, The Book . Enjoy. ...
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Bibliotech: We Are Friday Night Lights, And Friday Night ...
ballhype.com - 1/28/2008
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Welcome to the BallHype Spotlight Series , Volume
2: Bibilotech, a series of essays about books. We...
start with Bethlehem Shoals of FreeDarko (and soon, The Sporting Blog ). Shoals takes us through the tomes which helped form his liberated fandom. Enjoy. As a pre-teen, I was quite ordinary. I spent a lot of time in synagogue, and read baseball history till it became its own kind ...
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Bibliotech: Bethlehem Shoals of FreeDarko
