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Best Of The SB Nation Network: July 14, 2011

We have 307 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!

Hockey

- St. Louis Game Time on T.J. Oshie and expectations.

- Which departed player will the Lightning miss most? Raw Charge asks the question.

- Pension Plan Puppets continues looking at Toronto radio host Bill Watters with a questionable eye. Did he use homophobic slurs against a Leafs player? His response to the accusations is suspicious.

Football

- Pride Of Detroit notes that the Lions are targeting Jaguars LB Justin Durant when free agency arrives.

- The Falcons could be hard-hit on the offensive line in free agency reports The Falcoholic.

- Is Drew Brees better at being good than Heath Shuler was at being bad? Canal Street Chronicles tries to answer that question.

- Redskins trying to keep Albert Haynesworth away from the Eagles? Bleeding Green Nation discusses.

College Sports

- Team Speed Kills thinks Gene Chizik may want to stick to Cover 2 instead of NCAA cross-examinations. You’ll know when we’re finished, Gene. And we’re not finished.

- Brian Kelly seeks to restore Notre Dame to dominance on the football field while One Foot Down is restoring Notre Dame to prominence in the blogosphere.

- The Daily Gopher handicaps its 2011 chances in their historic rivalry with Michigan. There is crockery at stake here, people.

- Dawg Sports sprinkles ice cubes on Mark Richt’s hot seat with a 10-year report card comparing him favorably to his predecessors.

Baseball

- The Good Phight has nothing better to do than to review the position players’ performance from the first half of the season.

- Red Reporter has a Point-Counterpoint on the Reds’ second-half outlook.

- Royals Review looks back at some of Dayton Moore’s past deadline deals.

- Camden Chat reveals the Orioles’ #1 All-Star Moment: Cal Ripken’s farewell.

Combat Sports

- Brent Brookhouse looks at the rarest of all fight sport events -- three NJ judges have actually been suspended for scoring a boxing match so poorly.

- Kaleb Kelchner has the best one-post summary you’ll see anywhere of the crazed last 48 hours as the UFC struggled to come up with a new main event for UFC 133 only four weeks out.

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