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Best Of The SB Nation Network: December 27, 2011
Basketball
- The Hornets are rebuilding again, a look at how they did it before.
- Already some despair in Washington after a single loss.
- The Lakers are 0-2 and look a lot different than last year.
College Sports
- Bill Connelly has pretty much everything you need to know about tonight’s AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl, including a stats-for-gluttons preview of the game at SBN, an expansion of that post at Rock M Nation, and an interview with the enemy.
- Not to be outdone, Team Speed Kills takes an interest in one of the SEC’s newest members and has its own preview of the multivitamin bowl.
Baseball
- Purple Row reviews the 2011 season of Eric Young Jr..
- Fish Stripes reviews ESPN’s documentary on the Steve Bartman ball from the 2003 NLCS.
- Crawfish Boxes examines the history of 100-loss teams getting back to the playoffs to see if there’s any hope for the Astros.
- Bleed Cubbie Blue has Part 2 of their interview with Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts.
Hockey
- In Lou We Trust wants the Devils to keep Jon Merrill, and they explain why.
- Sidney Crosby is still out, and the Penguins have been awkwardly silent about his status. Pensburgh doesn’t like that, because it fosters speculation.
- Matchsticks & Gasoline dissects the strange rise of Leland Irving.
Combat Sports
- Josh Nason of Bloody Elbow is recapping 2011 in MMA with month bymonth posts. So far he’s covered January February and March.
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