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Best Of The SB Nation Network: November 30, 2011
Baseball
- Bluebird Banter says that the Jays don’t need a closer.
- Over The Monster has some thoughts on Bobby Valentine, the new manager of the Red Sox.
- Amazin’ Avenue looks back at Bobby Valentine’s time with the Mets earlier this century and wonders if he was something of a sabermetric pioneer.
- McCovey Chronicles kicks around the rumor that Jeremy Affeldt is on the trading block.
Basketball
- Is the time actually right to trade Chris Paul?
- The Rockets may not have a star, but they’re in a good position.
- How Russell Westbrook can learn something from Tony Parker.
Football
- Mile High Report comments on Von Miller and his thumb surgery.
- Neither Michael Vick or Jeremy Maclin will play for Philly this week says Bleeding Green Nation.
- Big Cat Country has Fred Taylor’s comments on the Jack Del Rio firing, and they were not kind.
- The Falcoholic notes that the Falcons will lose CB Brent Grimes for a few weeks.
Hockey
- Are the Minnesota Wild going to crash and burn? The Copper & Blue thinks so.
- In Lou We Trust compares New Jersey Devils fourth liners.
College Sports
- Coug Center excitedly reports that sword-swinging, galleon-sailing, air-raiding Mike Leach has docked in Pullman as Wazzu’s new head coach.
- Roll Bama Roll thinks Kirby Smart would be nuts to take over at Ole Miss for the departing Right Reverend Houston.
- Bruins Nation laments UCLA coaching searches past but has a plan this time around.
- Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician says most people who are trying to interpret Jim Boeheim’s Tuesday press conference are doing it wrong.
- Black Shoe Diaries looks at whether Harvard head coach Tim Murphy could be a real possibility for the Nittany Lions.
Soccer
- The list of MLS home openers was released this week and that has 86 Forever wondering who the most interesting matchup would be. They grade every team.
- The Seattle Sounders are undergoing rather significant makeover after their relatively successful season. Sounder at Heart explains the ramifications.
Combat Sports
- Bloody Elbow’s Matthew Roth got to work as a “shadow judge” for Bellator 59 and records his experience.
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