Apparently, ESPN Doesn't Hate the Blogosphere THAT Much.

• TheHype

  +2

  High fives to GSoM and Sactown Royalty showing up there as well... though really, it's not a surprise right? :)

  Posted 11/13/2007 [reply] [flag]

• Patrick

  +1

  I always though ESPN needed a little more cock.

  Posted 11/14/2007 [reply] [flag]

  • Digital Headbutt

    +2

    Sean Salisbury has enough for evverybody at the WWL. At least, that's what he'd tell you.

    Posted 11/14/2007 [reply] [flag]

• Atma Brother #1

  +4

  For all the bashing ESPN takes from the blogosphere (some deserved, some undeserved) at least on the hoops side they've been really generous with links, etc for over a year now. (YaySports! ball exception noted).
  

  90% of sports bloggers like to diss ESPN and complain about not getting links, but guess what? 90% of sports blogs suck. Thank god for the other 10% which are just as good if not better than the old school media outlets. (I'm not trying to say that if you diss ESPN you're automatically a poor blog of course, e.g. Deadspin which is solid)

  And by the way this particular example of ESPN linking to the blogosphere is somewhat misleading. The NBA Local feed is powered by Topix which has been placing solid blogs in their feeds for years. This isn't a case of ESPN handpicking blog posts and linking to them.

  Posted 11/14/2007 [reply] [flag]

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THE AFTER PARTY
Published 11/12/2007 by DCScrap at EPIC CARNIVAL | SPORTS NEWS WITH A TWIST
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ESPN Now Using Blogs To Fill Up Space
Published 11/13/2007 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... I didn't even know this section of ESPN.com (haven't been there in awhile) existed until Hardwood Paroxysm pointed me to it yesterday, but apparently ESPN has a new section off of it's NBA Main page titled "NBA Local News". At first glance it seems like just a collection of team specific stories from papers around the country, but after a closer look there's more within the page. ...

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Published 11/13/2007 by Leitch at Deadspin
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Published 11/13/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... Though I’m not entirely sure what’s newsworthy about this not-so-humble blog receiving an (automated?) link from ESPN.com (particularly as Henry Abbot has already gone to ...

The Roundup: NFL Coaching Mustaches, the AL Cy Young Award and ESPN Loves Blogs
Published 11/14/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
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Rackin’ Up the Links 11/14
Published 11/14/2007 by Steve Weinman at The NBA Source
... tilt, with Anthony laying out the keys for the Sixers and Jon functioning as czar of the game thread (although he sure isn’t he czar of prognostication). Around the NBA writing community: The Big Lead assures the pessimists that the NBA’s ratings are doing quite well, although the same cannot be said for one former Coney Island point guard. Hardwood Paroxysm’s Matt has learned something very intriguing about ESPN and the blogosphere. 20 ...