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Best Of The SB Nation Network: May 12, 2011
Baseball
- Bluebird Banter discusses the confidence Jays fans have in manager John Farrell.
- Federal Baseball checks in with the rehab of Stephen Strasburg.
- Twinkie Town reviews the last week of Twins baseball.
- Amazin’ Avenue does likewise with the Mets’ performance of late.
Basketball
- Is Jeff Teague’s performance just a nice playoffs story, or is this for real?
- With relocation, a lockout, and the NBA Draft Lottery looming, lots of big questions for the Kings.
- Jeremy Tyler skipped his senior year of high school to play overseas. How has it affected his draft stock?
- On blowing up the Lakers.
Football
- Brett Favre to mentor Cam Newton? Cat Scratch Reader reports on the rumor that won’t die.
- Bleeding Green Nation asks the question: Can the lockout reach a point that would dampen even a die-hard football fan’s enthusiasm?
- Revenge Of The Birds is calling for the Cardinals to use their running game instead of wasting talent.
- Matt Leinart to reunite with Pete Carroll in Seattle? Field Gulls has the skinny.
College Sports
- EDSBS calls the $1M “fine” “fiction within fiction within fiction, the Inception of punishments,” and says it was a sum intended simply to sound significant.
- Corn Nation puts the $1M figure into the context of the Fiesta Bowl’s other “expenses” and says the whole thing is evidence that the BCS is never going to change. Roll Bama Roll agrees, saying the slap on the wrist communicates that it will take a lot more than mere scandals and unethical behavior to strip a bowl game of its BCS status.
- Team Speed Kills notes the irony of the BCS requiring the charitable organization to donate the “fine” to charity, saying that that is precisely what they were formed to do anyway. And finally, Black Shoe Diaries notes the irony of the “punishment” being handed down on the same day the NCAA released a statement of how it’s going to get tough on cheaters.
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