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Best Of The SB Nation Network: January 3, 2011
Basketball
- Indy Cornrows looks in-depth at the Pacers shot selection using pretty (color) graphs and charts.
- LeBron James and Dwyane Wade shared Player of the Month honors and Coach Spoelstra name Coach of the Month, so yeah, the Miami Heat are doing well (via Peninsula is Mightier).
- Swish Appeal breaks down the Stanford defeat of the UConn Huskies that ended their record-breaking win streak.
Football
- Dawgs By Nature has the potential candidates for the Browns coaching gig, now that Eric Mangini is out.
- Cat Scratch Reader says big news will be coming from the Panthers tomorrow.
- Field Gulls is still a little ambivalent about the Seahawks making the playoffs.
- The Giants missed the playoffs, Big Blue View thinks they just weren’t good enough this year and offers no excuses.
Baseball
- Amazin’ Avenue interviews third base prospect Zach Lutz.
- Red Reporter looks at some of the best Reds names of the 1890s.
- Camden Chat says that even if the Orioles aren’t great this year, mediocrity is a lot better than woefulness.
- Beyond The Boxscore looks at Hall of Fame candidates like to be on the 2012-2015 ballots.
Hockey
- Japers’ Rink looks back at a Classic weekend in Pittsburgh.
- Now three goalies deep, Raw Charge examines what the Lightning should do in the crease.
- Behind The Net looks at the best fights of the year so far.
College Sports
- Virginia Tech blog Gobbler Country and Stanford blog Rule of Tree both preview tonight’s Orange Bowl and both pick the Cardinal.
- In the wake of Pitt’s firing of recently-hired Mike Haywood, Cardiac Hill’s Twitter-watching reveals that former Pitt and NFL legend Bill Fralic blames athletic director Steve Pederson for messing up a program that was 26-12 in the past three seasons.
- Wisconson blog Bucky’s 5th Quarter says that J.J. Watt’s apology to Badger fans for losing to TCU in the Rose Bowl was completely unnecessary.
- Testudo Times is in wait-and-see mode regarding Maryland’s hiring of UConn head coach Randy Edsall, but does say that it’s “not the disaster hire that some have made it out to be.” The UConn Blog is “fine” with the departure, but is not fine with the timing or the manner of the departure.
Combat Sports
- Bloody Elbow has an exclusive interview with UFC lightweight Gray Maynard who just fought champ Frankie Edgar to a draw.
- A Wrap Up of Bloody Elbow’s UFC 125 coverage.
- Recap of MMA Mania’s UFC 125 coverage.
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