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Just turn on your radio, watch TV or go to a cookout, and you'll inevitably hear one know-nothing or another comment on the sports story du jour.
Surprisingly, that sports-centric stream of consciousness hasn't flourished on the Web. Sports blogs, i.e., Weblogs--Internet journals that give their creators and visitors a soapbox to air ideas--are few and meager. That may be because established sports Web sites--like
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Pro football and basketball blogs are the worst of the bunch--the pickings are slim, the presentation is poor and the writing uninspired. Baseball and hockey bloggers are an improvement, and we've included some of the better ones on our list.
The best sports blogs are those that traffic in polemics. This may be because legitimate news sites aren't allowed to tally the number of athletes caught with marijuana or the incidents of violence by sports parents. Badjocks.com, our favorite sports blog site, fills that void. F&@*edsports.com offers more of sports stars behaving badly. Look for these muckrakers to flower as the football season, the World Series and the Kobe Bryant case swing into full gear.
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