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Best Of The SB Nation Network: December 8, 2010

We have 292 fantastic sports blogs in SB Nation, so in case you didn’t have a chance to read them all today we’ve collected the best stuff right here. Get sports smart in no time fast!

Baseball

- Amazin’ Avenue sat down for the third part of their exclusive interview with R.A. Dickey... in Dickey’s house!

- Lookout Landing has the details and reaction to the Mariners signing of Jack Cust.

- Roto Hardball explains how to avoid the post-career-year letdown in your fantasy draft.

- Royals Review says that Kansas City has completed the inevitable by signing useless outfielder Jeff Francoeur.

Hockey

- Defending Big D takes a hard look at the Dallas Stars evaporating fan base.

- Lighthouse Hockey chronicles the Islanders rebuild to this point.

- Which NHL officials are pro-Blues? Which NHL officials are anti-Blues? St. Louis Game Time takes a look... with tables and everything.

Football

- In a sign of the Browns improved play this year, it’s Week 14 and Dawgs By Nature can still talk about the mathematical possibility they could make the playoffs.

- Behind The Steel Curtain interviews Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall.

- Niners Nation takes a look at what QB Alex Smith had to say about his promotion to starter...again.

- Bleeding Green Nation previews the upcoming Cowboys and Eagles game by comparing how the teams were last year when Dallas swept Philly in all three games.

Basketball

- Brew Hoops wants to know what’s going on with John Salmons’ poor play, so they looked really deep into it.

- Silver Screen and Roll laments the game they almost lost to the Wizards.

- SLC Dunk brings a great analysis of the league’s top players. A must read.

College Sports

- Cardiac Hill disagrees with Pitt’s termination of Dave Wannstedt, and says that the Pitt job is a good one despite the fact (not because) the school’s in a pro market.

- Black Heart Gold Pants calls Derrell Johnson-Koulianos’s admission to multiple drug charges “incredibly depressing” and hopes that that level of drug use is isolated to that particular player.

- Rock Chalk Talk characterizes the Jayhawks’ win over Memphis as “uninspiring, yet convincing.“

Combat Sports

- Bloody Elbow’s Duane Finley checks in with Stefan Struve ahead of the heavyweight’s co-main event bout with Sean McCorkle at UFC 124.

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