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Best Of The SB Nation Network: September 13, 2010

We have 278 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

- There are a lot of crummy NL Central teams, but The Crawfish Boxes wonders if the Astros have the best outlook of the lot.

- The Giants have 18 games remaining in the season. McCovey Chronicles discusses the good thoughts and the bad.

- The Marlins are shutting down Josh Johnson for the season. FishStripes says this is the right move.

- A bunch of things went wrong for the 2010 Royals. The pitching staff was one such thing.

Basketball

- Golden State of Mind recaps Team USA’s Gold Medal with pictures.

- Welcome to Loud City celebrates the continued emergence of Kevin Durant - as well they should.

- Pounding the Rock delves into Garrett Temple enigma.

Football

- Pride Of Detroit digs deep into the rule that disallowed Calvin Johnson’s game-winning TD catch.

- Andy Reid discusses the Eagles mega-injury woes after the first game, from Bleeding Green Nation.

- Battle Red Blog is singing the praises of Gary Kubiak and the coaching staff after the Texans thumped the Colts.

- The Dolphins defense was big-time in the win over Buffalo reports The Phinsider.

Hockey

- A plea for the Lightning to keep preseason games in the Division, from Raw Charge.

- Western College Hockey Blog has an update on Penn State’s intentions to start a D1 hockey program.

College Sports

- Gobbler Country wallows in the details of Virginia Tech’s 16-21 loss to James Madison and makes a list of those not to blame for the loss. It’s a short list.

- Spencer Hall at SBNation.com says that the JMU upset over Virginia Tech was impressive, but still doesn’t measure up to Appalachian State’s upset over Michigan.

- Carolina March calls it just another year of ACCocalypse and notes that “[t]he entire ACC Coastal Division lost, save Carolina who happily had the week off.”

- In the wake of Bruce Pearl’s confession of lying to the NCAA, Rocky Top Talk says that being a Tennessee fan is utterly exhausting.

Combat Sports

- Bloody Elbow has the last word on the great “is MMA just real pro wrestling?” debate.

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