Jason

Jason

Bay Area sports fan, Blueberry Morning enthusiast, co-founder of BallHype.

Web Site: http://lowpost.net/

Claimed Blog: BallHype Blog

Games: 2008 NBA Playoffs Pick'em, 2007 NBA Playoffs Pick'em, 17 Games

BallHype Member since Jan. 2, 2007

Reviewing the NBA Blog Previews, 08-09
ballhype.com — 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 ...
Reviewing the NBA Blog Previews, 08-09

 Nothing in Return
Nothing in Return
ballhype.com — The big news in Oakland tonight: the impending departure of Baron Davis. Because Baron's opting out of his contract and signing with the Clippers, the Warriors will soon have nothing to show for their top star but memories of last year's playoff run . Unfortunately, losing talent for pennies on the dollar is nothing new for Warriors fans—it happens on a regular basis. Don't believe ...
Nothing in Return
 BREAKING: Chris Paul is Really Good
BREAKING: Chris Paul is Really Good
ballhype.com — 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 ...
BREAKING: Chris Paul is Really Good
Reviewing the NBA Blog Previews, 07-08
ballhype.com — 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.
Reviewing the NBA Blog Previews, 07-08

 Deadspin's Media Approval Leaderboard
Deadspin's Media Approval Leaderboard
ballhype.com — 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 ...
Deadspin's Media Approval Leaderboard
Shaq for Marion: Done Deal (pending physical)
sports.yahoo.com — The Suns roster gets slower, older, and more expensive. That Gasol trade is looking a lot more reasonable now.
Shaq for Marion: Done Deal (pending physical)
 Commenter's Corner
Commenter's Corner
ballhype.com — This is where Howie normally highlights some of the best comments from the past week. He's been busy setting up our big ShowHype Oscar Quiz , though, so I've been called in off the bench. First off, TheHype Himself goes Rachael Ray on this blogging manifesto : But Lunch of Shame is so good when you put the Sauce of Despairity on it! Next, Rod Benson's blogging sidekick gives a great ...
Commenter's Corner
 BallHype's Top 10 Sports Blog Stories of the Year About ... Sports Blogs
BallHype's Top 10 Sports Blog Stories of the Year About ... Sports Blogs
ballhype.com — 2007 was a big year for sports blogs: fans turned to them in growing numbers, mainstream media took notice, and (some) bloggers got paid . To commemorate, we dug through the archives for the top 10 stories about the sports blog revolution. 1. Deadspin: This Hurts Us More Than It Hurts You, Colin Posted April 5, 2007 Related: Do it Again and the Kitten Dies , Schreiber: Radio host's ...
BallHype's Top 10 Sports Blog Stories of the Year About ...
BallHype's Top 10 Sports Videos of 2007
ballhype.com — The first annual BallHype Person of the Year award goes to ... You[tube]. If pictures are worth a thousand words, then a hilarious sports video is worth a million. With videos like these, who needs writing? 1. Giving Him The Business! Found by Mr. Irrelevant 2. Trinity (TX) Laterals Their Way to Division III Win Found by East Coast Bias 3. Miss Gossip Interviews Greg Oden ...
BallHype's Top 10 Sports Videos of 2007
 More Sports Blog Geekery: Top Deadspin Commenters, 2007
More Sports Blog Geekery: Top Deadspin Commenters, 2007
ballhype.com — On Wednesday, Rob Iracane unveiled his picks for Deadspin commenters of the year , and Camp Tiger Claw came out on top. Regular comments section readers are well aware that CTC brings the funny, but was he really the #1 commenter for 2007? To find out, I printed out each post from 2007, divided them up among 5 monkeys, and had them count up all of the +1's, +2's, +10's, and other variations ...
More Sports Blog Geekery: Top Deadspin Commenters, 2007
 The Foibles of Formulas: A Quiz
The Foibles of Formulas: A Quiz
ballhype.com — Find out how well you know your Wages of Wins by taking the following quiz, which matches up 12 pairs of NBA players and compares their WP48 scores for the 2006-07 season.
The Foibles of Formulas: A Quiz

 Where Birth Happened: Six Decades of NBA Origins
Where Birth Happened: Six Decades of NBA Origins
ballhype.com — Fun things to do with Google Maps #3: plot the birthplace and high school location of every NBA player from the 1946-47, 1956-57, 1966-67, 1976-77, 1986-87, 1996-97, and 2006-07 seasons. As with the last version , use the controls on the left to zoom, and drag 'n drop to pan. This time, multiple players from the same city are grouped into a single marker, with the number indicating how many ...
Where Birth Happened: Six Decades of NBA Origins

 Where Birth Happens
Where Birth Happens
ballhype.com — Fun things to do with Google Maps #2: plot the birthplace of every current NBA player.
Where Birth Happens

 The Sports Blog Mapping Project
The Sports Blog Mapping Project
ballhype.com — 1,500+ U.S. and Canadian sports blogs loaded into Google Maps for slicing, dicing, zooming, and panning.
The Sports Blog Mapping Project
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