Wild times for sports blogs may be nearing an end - Los Angeles Times

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Dodger Thoughts: Right Under Your Nose
Published 6/22/2008 at Baseball Toaster
... in its stable, offers in Sunday's editions a lengthy piece by David Wharton that strongly suggests sports blogs have finally started cleaning up their act - once again operating under the assumption that every blog was gossipy trash. Lip service is barely paid to the idea that sports blogs have had integrity long before a site like ...

The Roundup: Candace’s Dunk, Carlin’s Death
Published 6/23/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... To all our new readers from the Los Angeles area, welcome. Here’s some classic Scarlett to open your morning … journalist interview coming around lunchtime … gas stations ...

Monday quibbles
Published 6/23/2008 at Ball Don't Lie
... On Sunday, David Wharton of the Los Angeles Times seemed to breathe a sigh of relief audible even out here in the sticks upon discovering that some of sporting blogdom's lesser (if also its most popular) lights had passed on reprinting a gossip item about a sports star that rose to the surface last month. ...

OMG, Sports Blogs Are No Longer Edgy and Risky!
Published 6/23/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... Buncha questions came our way following some quotes we made in the LA Times article about sports blogs. Are you guys no longer putting up bikini photos? We’d sooner quit life. A few weeks ago, ...

We Are Apparently ‘Edgy Outsiders’
Published 6/23/2008 by Chris Mottram at Mr. Irrelevant
... The mainsteam media continues to totally get blogging. Yesterday, the L.A. Times published a ridiculous article about some make believe evolution that is occurring in blogging. Apparently, sports bloggers are putting on their big boy britches and moving out of their parent’s basement and into some realm of journalist integrity in this post-Buzz Bissinger gone wild world. This is the first I’d heard of this evolution, probably because it’s not true. Of course, to get the facts, the Times went straight to the source of journalistic ...

Self-definition and the L.A. Times
Published 6/23/2008 by PostmanE at The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL.
Sigh. Problems with this story: One, it doesn’t mention Awful Announcing, which seems like a crime. Two: It doesn’t even attempt make any sense of the very mainstream nature of FanHouse, Y!SB, and The Sporting Blog, which you have to talk about if you have any interest in the maturation of sports blogs. Three: Mister I is not “edgy” or “outsider,” which they’d be the first to tell you. Four: I don’t know too many other bloggers that share these views. Yet they are they are, in the L.A. Times, meant to represent us ...

Lasso not included: Your Monday morning roundup
Published 6/23/2008 by B-Roy at The Sports Culture
... reveal themselves!!! They’ve even got a web site, too! And street credit from Fox Sports! (Barstool Sports) Blood, sweat, tears . . . white boy edition. (Deadspin) For those who always wondered what their favorite college football team would look like in the form of a comedian. (Fanhouse) Your nation’s U.S. Ballers, without any national champions. (ESPN). Here’s to the LA Times, that says bloggers are maturing: Mmmmm boobs.

Mmmmm, More Navel-Gazing
Published 6/24/2008 by Andrew Johnson at Defensive Indifference
... The original article, by David Wharton, was ridiculous. It basically claimed that the “Wild West” days of the sports blogosphere are coming to a close, which is true in a way and not true in others, but then oddly Wharton tried to credit Buzz Bissinger’s insane rant on CostasNow and the bloggers with supposed copy editors at MSM outlets for the higher level in discourse. ...

The Anatomy Of A Sports Blogger Warfare
Published 6/26/2008 by J Koot at Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football
... 1. L.A. Times publishes ridiculous story reporting that wild times in sports blogging world could come to an end. (No more cheap hookers, overnight visits to the ‘hood for blow and of course bikini photos are out.) ...