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Best Of The SB Nation Network: August 26, 2010
Baseball
- Per Halos Heaven, catcher Jeff Mathis is making history. The bad kind.
- Part 1 of Beyond The Boxscore’s look at knuckleballers begins with Tim Wakefield. With graphs and heatmaps and tables and whatnot.
- Lookout Landing Presents: A Series Of Pictures In Which Josh Wilson Looks Awkward And Out Of Place.
- DRaysBay wonders how many wins a bullpen adds. Using numbers and such.
Football
- With Mike Martz taking over offensive coordinator duties in Chicago, Windy City Gridiron tries to nail down who Jay Cutler will target the most.
- Pride Of Detroit reports on a 63-year old fan who walked 425 miles to the Lions practice facility.
- From Daily Norseman we learn the Vikings made a trade with the Dolphins to bolster their injured reviving corps..
- Canal Street Chronicles interviews former Saint and NFL bad-boy Kyle Turley.
Hockey
- The big story in the online hockey world today stemmed around Puck Daddy’s piece on bloggers and access. SBN bloggers at Hockey Wilderness, Pension Plan Puppets, and Anaheim Calling all weighed in on the discussion.
- In that Puck Daddy piece, the spotlight was put on the New York Rangers, and specifically, their relationship with our Rangers blog, Blueshirt Banter. Jim and Co. took to the airwaves this evening to say their piece.
- Other news: Winging It In Motown wonders when a circumvention of the cap is not a circumvention of the cap?
- Matt from The Cannon wonders if the Blue Jackets need a first-line center.
Combat Sports
- MMA for Real talks to one of the underheralded pioneers of MMA Del Hawkins and gets a gritty, one of a kind interview with a true original who’s lived a hard knocks life.











