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Best Of The SB Nation Network: April 21, 2011

We have 304 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

- Amazin’ Avenue checks in with the Mets player performance meter from the past week.

- Bless You Boys notices that, now that the Tigers have won a few games, fan confidence is suddenly on the rise.

- Twinkie Town wonders if the Twins can still make up for last winter’s decisions.

- South Side Sox says that the White Sox area really boring right now, so fans aren’t likely to come out and see them.

Basketball

- Posting and Toasting has a video breakdown of Jared Jeffries’ awesome defense for the Knicks.

- Nets Daily has the full list of key dates for the NBA lottery and draft for all those non-playoff teams.

- Is George Karl costing the Nuggets the series? Denver Stiffs thinks so.

Hockey

- Anaheim Calling on penalties, penalties, penalties.

- Lighthouse Hockey looks at the “quality goaltending starts” metric and applies it to the Islanders.

Football

- Acme Packing Company reports on the latest news in the legal problems of Johnny Jolly.

- The latest on the quest for a new stadium for the Vikings from Daily Norseman.

- Bucs Nations discusses the draft’s ‘Best Player Available’ theory and what it means for the Buccaneers.

- Canal Street Chronicles on trying to interview Deuce McCallister, on what can go wrong in the process, and a successful conclusion.

College Sports

- Track Em Tigers is skeptical of alleged Poisoner of Trees Harvey Updyke’s claim that he was attacked at an Alabama gas station after his court appearance yesterday.

- Florida fan Year2 of SEC blog Team Speed Kills says that every Alabama and Auburn fan he’s ever met is actually not a lunatic, but he does concede that he’s never actually lived in the state of Alabama, either.

- Spencer Hall puts the whole thing to rest with an EXCLUSIVE PHOTO OF UPDYKE’S ATTACKER. Really, it explains everything.

- UB Bull Run takes a thorough look at the possible divisions of the new MAC.

- Alligator Army is not buying the idea that Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray is the SEC’s “franchise player.”

- With Jeff Taylor, John Jenkins, and Festus Ezeli all foregoing the NBA Draft and returning to Vanderbilt, Anchor of Gold says the onslaught of lofty pre-preseason expectations is deserved.

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