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New Feature: Commentator Posts

Posted by TheBigLead on October 10th, 2007

What’s the best way for us to thank the folks who constantly email us links to quirky, cool, offbeat sports stories and keep our comments section lively and fun? Give them a post. So to reward these people, we’re going to try and give them one post a week to write about anything in 200 […]

We’ve got a fantastic interview coming your way (hopefully) early this afternoon. Been working on it for awhile, hopefully you’ll like it … many, many requests to leave the politics out of this space, but why? Isn’t it fun? We’ll tone it down a bit, but please, direct your attention to this piece on the […]

New Feature: Commenter Posts

Posted by TheBigLead on October 3rd, 2007

What’s the best way for us to thank the folks who constantly email us links to quirky, cool, offbeat sports stories and keep our comments section lively and fun? Give them a post. So to reward these people, we’re going to try and give them one post a week to write about anything in 200 […]

Yahoo Grabs First Sports Blogger

Posted by TheBigLead on September 21st, 2007

A mini-earthquake rocked the blogging world late last night - the founder of the most popular sports blog on the net, AOL Fanhouse, lost its fearless leader, Jamie Mottram (aka Mister Irrelevant). Where was he going? What was he doing? Sports Business Daily has the answer - Yahoo Sports. We spoke to Mottram about his […]

How hot is Meagan good? If she’s really dating Jets RB Thomas Jones, he’s a lucky cat. We urge you to watch this video of her talking about why she doesn’t wear a bra … food for thought after that disasterous rate cut - with the value of the US dollar dipping (the media took […]

Ah, What a Month** (Updates)

Posted by TheBigLead on September 1st, 2007

The best month of the year - sports or otherwise - is here. Eight days till the NFL, college football starts today, and the baseball playoffs are approaching. Also, the weather is just sublime. Lots of great news to report, so we’ll offer quick bullet updates:
[We’ve been updating the Michigan game in the comments, but […]

Guest Post: The Greatest Game Ever (That Nobody Saw)

Posted by TheBigLead on August 24th, 2007

On Wednesday, we had a fun little contest wherein we asked readers to come up with something funny to say about Latrell Sprewell getting his boat repossessed, while incorporating his notorious, ‘gotta feed my family’ line. We reached out to a soon-to-be contributor (hopefully!) to TBL, who checked out the responses. We couldn’t do it […]

Slate: Sports Blogs Are Taking Over the World!!!!!!! (Not Really)

Posted by TheBigLead on August 24th, 2007

Interesting piece in Slate this week that all NFL fans – and sports fans in general - should definitely check out. In the Sports Nut column, Robert Weintraub gushes over NFL blog Pro Football Talk with fawning praise fit for ESPN – circa 1997.
Earlier this summer, we called PFT the alpha and the omega […]

Quick Word About What the Heck is Going on Here

Posted by TheBigLead on August 21st, 2007

Most frequently emailed question in the last 24 hours: why does your site go down faster than [enter slutty celebrity here]? The short answer is that since we started this blog, we’ve been doing it on the cheap. We started out on a server in Romania (no joke) paying $50 for the year, thanks to […]

The Roundup: Namath’s Kid, BLOGS!, and Pranking Jeremy Shockey

Posted by TheBigLead on August 16th, 2007

We loved Anne Hathaway in Havoc, but she’s a bit pasty and boxy in this bikini. And as Gawker pointed out, yes, this looks bad …we absolutely refuse to write about that joke of a lawsuit from an inmate against Mike Vick … watched (or tried to) Newport Harbor and it was incredibly terrible with […]