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Best Of The SB Nation Network: May 19, 2011

We have 305 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

- Beyond The Boxscore has some fun with sample sizes and arbitrary end points.

- Lookout Landing looks at how Michael Pineda makes adjustments mid-game.

- Pinstripe Alley asks you to play the role of Yankees manager during the ninth inning of Wednesday night’s game against the Orioles.

- Brew Crew Ball celebrates Prince Fielder’s 200th career home run by looking back at some of his other longball milestones.

Basketball

- Is it time for the Lakers to ditch the triangle offense?

- The Cavalier have decisions to be made with the 1st and 4th picks.

- A prospect review of the Morris twins by Knicks blog Posting and Toasting.

Football

- Vikings defensive line coach Karl Dunbar has run into some legal issues, The Daily Norseman comments on the story.

- Bucs Nation proclaims the NFC South as the toughest division in the NFL, and proceeds to back up that claim.

- Panther Jon Beason won a court case and got awarded damages of exactly one dollar, Cat Scratch Reader tells us why.

- Bleeding Green Nation interviews Eagles draft pick Jason Kelce.

College Sports

- The Conquest Chronicles is outraged by Ohio State’s arrogance... and still smarting over Yahoo’s investigative journalism.

- Block U explains why the Pac 12 fears the Ute of America.

- SEC Commish Mike Slive is going after oversigning according to the ‘cocks at The Garnet And Black Attack.

- Team Speed Kills explains why the best player in college football won’t be winning the Heisman. Bad Luck.

- Black Shoes Diary wonders if the Big 10 Football Championship really might be played outdoors in snows, sleets, and hails? You betcha.

Hockey

- Broad Street Hockey wonders if Evgeni Nabokov could be the answer to the Flyers’ goaltending questions.

- Japers’ Rink on the possibility of trading Mike Green.

Soccer

- The good people in Texas have been trying to get the bad-blood stirring ever since the Houston Dynamo joined FC Dallas in MLS. Now that FCD has finally seen some success, Dynamo Theory thinks the rivalry may finally be taking off.

- As Monarcas Morelia and Pumas UNAM get ready to face off for the Mexican Primera title, FMF State of Mind takes a closer look at Monarcas’ surprising rise from the lower end of the standings.

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