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Best Of The SB Nation Network: May 19, 2010

We have 253 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!

Basketball

- Bullets Forever’s Washington Wizards fans are in John Wall heaven after winning the NBA draft lottery.

- Sactown Royalty’s Tom Ziller consoles Kings fans with lots of facts about all the great NBA players drafted outside of the top three.

- Silver Screen and Roll is pretty darn confident after the Lakers blew out the Suns in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.

Baseball

- Mariners catcher Rob Johnson took a foul tip right in the junk last night. Lookout Landing runs the tale of the, uh, tape, with a comparable Kenji Johjima nutshot from 2008.

- The Mets are paying Francisco Rodriguez (aka K-Rod) an awful lot of money to strike batters out. Too bad he also walks a lot of them and gives up a lot of dingers. Amazin’ Avenue proposes a new nickname: K-BB-HR-Rod.

- The Twins’ Jesse Crain is struggling big time. Is there any hope for him? Twinkie Town doesn’t think so.

- The Dodgers are riding a nine-game winning streak, so while they’re on the precipice of double-digits, True Blue LA looks back at the franchise’s previous ten-plus-game winning streaks.

Football

- Windy City Gridiron explains just what having Mike Martz as the Bears offensive coordinator means.

- Baltimore Beatdown covers the Ravens OTA (Organized Team Activity) in person (w/ pics).

- The secret behind the Atlanta Falcons recent winning ways, as diagnosed by the Falcoholic.

- Revenge Of The Birds wonders if the Texans give in to Andre Johnson’s contract demands, will other players take note?

College Basketball

- A Sea of Blue says NBA fans can give up their hopes of landing head coach John Calipari, because he’s right where he wants to be.

Hockey

- Western College Hockey Blog breaks down the first round USHL Entry Draft.

- From The Rink tells the story of several cast offs who are making a difference with the Philadelphia Flyers.

- Hockey Wilderness presents a primer for available free agents.

Soccer

- Sounder At Heart recaps Saturday’s match and the breakout of Gambian midfielder Sanna Nyassi.

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