BallHype User Blog - Jason

Reviewing the NBA Blog Previews, 08-09

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:42:08 +0000

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 ...

Jason posted 4/16/2009 from ballhype.com

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Nothing in Return

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 05:51:02 +0000

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 ...

Jason posted 7/2/2008 from ballhype.com

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BREAKING: Chris Paul is Really Good

Thu, 22 May 2008 05:11:18 +0000

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 ...

Jason posted 5/22/2008 from ballhype.com

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Reviewing the NBA Blog Previews, 07-08

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:43:59 +0000

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.

Jason posted 4/17/2008 from ballhype.com

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Deadspin's Media Approval Leaderboard

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:38:18 +0000

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 ...

Jason posted 3/25/2008 from ballhype.com

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Shaq for Marion: Done Deal (pending physical)

Wed, 6 Feb 2008 06:00:39 +0000

The Suns roster gets slower, older, and more expensive. That Gasol trade is looking a lot more reasonable now.

Jason posted 2/6/2008 from sports.yahoo.com

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Commenter's Corner

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:09:33 +0000

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 ...

Jason posted 1/28/2008 from ballhype.com

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Player Production by State, or Where to Raise an Athlete

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:23:11 +0000

Player Production by State, or Where to Raise an Athlete

Jason posted 1/15/2008 from ballhype.com

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BallHype's Top 10 Sports Blog Stories of the Year About ... Sports Blogs

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:06:53 +0000

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 ...

Jason posted 12/31/2007 from ballhype.com

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BallHype's Top 10 Sports Videos of 2007

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:04:52 +0000

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 ...

Jason posted 12/31/2007 from ballhype.com

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More Sports Blog Geekery: Top Deadspin Commenters, 2007

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:12:22 +0000

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 ...

Jason posted 12/28/2007 from ballhype.com

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The Foibles of Formulas: A Quiz

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:44:33 +0000

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.

Jason posted 12/17/2007 from ballhype.com

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Where Birth Happened: Six Decades of NBA Origins

Thu, 6 Dec 2007 08:16:37 +0000

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 ...

Jason posted 12/6/2007 from ballhype.com

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Where Birth Happens

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:36:45 +0000

Fun things to do with Google Maps #2: plot the birthplace of every current NBA player.

Jason posted 11/29/2007 from ballhype.com

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The Sports Blog Mapping Project

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:41:38 +0000

1,500+ U.S. and Canadian sports blogs loaded into Google Maps for slicing, dicing, zooming, and panning.

Jason posted 11/26/2007 from ballhype.com

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Dwyane Wade Converse Commercial - 10/31/2007 Remix (video)

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:41:43 +0000

Dwyane Wade "From Robbins, Illinois" Converse Commercial - 10/31/2007 Remix

Jason posted 10/31/2007 from uncutvideo.aol.com

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Introducing ShowHype: Ballhype Goes Hollywood

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:04:00 +0000

Today we launched ShowHype, a site that finds the most popular entertainment stories and videos on the web and lets users hype up the best stories, comment, or submit their own. Sound familiar? It’s like Ballhype went to LA, got a new wardrobe and a tan, became a party circuit regular, and could tell you the latest news about any star, any time of the day.

Jason posted 10/15/2007 from blog.ballhype.com

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Commenter's Corner

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:48:40 +0000

This is where Howie normally highlights some of the best comments from the past week. He's been busy helping us with the ShowHype launch , though, so I've been called in from the bullpen. Not playing over the loudspeakers: Welcome to the Jungle . First off, Agent Zero's biggest fan told us that Halo hacks work in RL: Gilbert does this with NBA games too, just in basketball the dummies are ...

Jason posted 10/15/2007 from ballhype.com

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Commenter's Corner

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:14:01 +0000

This is where Howie normally highlights some of the best comments from the past week. He's busy partying with the Joneses , though, so I've been called in to pinch-hit. Upon learning that the Astros had hired former Phillies GM Ed Wade , meech.one from Bugs & Cranks summed up the views of countless Philly fans eloquently and succinctly: ...

Jason posted 9/24/2007 from ballhype.com

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Miss Gossip: A Retrospective (video)

Tue, 4 Sep 2007 03:33:17 +0000

Selected Miss Gossip creations from SunsGossip, FanHouse, and elsewhere. Note: contains occasional coarse language, hand-drawn nudity, and baby polar bears.

Jason posted 9/4/2007 from youtube.com

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