It's open season on sports blogs

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Those of us in the blogosphere with our platforms of varying tones and readership took a collective beating this week on HBO's "Costas Now" summit on sports media. The heated Internet segment on the informative, yet crammed forum was generally a lump dump on sports blogs even with host Bob Costas' halfhearted attempts to note that not everything on the Web need be tagged as ... [link]

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Blogger Round Up: Scared Awake Edition
Published 5/3/2008 by Big Blue Monkey at I Dislike Your Favorite Team
... has as well (a man who actually has journalistic credits in his near past (though in fairness to ourselves, it should be noted that the IDYFT team has on its staff: a published novelist, a football player who has covered future NFL WR's, a lawyer who has studied labor law, and a guy who edited his High School Yearbook's index)). I particularly like the SCP's last graf: The blanket indictment of bloggers as hacks reeks of sanctimony. There's a lot of earnest effort being put forth by well-meaning folks who are just as rabid about their sports as Bissinger or Wilbon. While we ...

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