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Best Of The SB Nation Network: May 17, 2012

We have 322 fantastic sports blogs in SB Nation, so in case you didn’t have a chance to read them all we’ve collected the best stuff right here. Get sports smart in no time fast!

Baseball

-- Baseball Nation checks in with our new bee overlords, now conquering Denver.

-- Bluebird Banter plays everyone’s favorite follicle-based picture identification game: name that back-of-the-head player.

-- Camden Chat remembers the last good year the Orioles had. You know, before this year.

-- Royals Review has the latest Royals injury report.

Basketball

-- The Spurs are a fun watch if you want them to be.

-- Can better 3-point shooting be achieved by better strategy instead of better shooters?

-- All the Lakers’ progress in Game Two against the Thunder was wiped away by the result.

Football

-- Baltimore Beatdown debates the better quarterback: Joe Flacco or Tony Romo?

-- Mile High Report on former Bronco Rod Smith making the Ring of Fame.

-- With Mario Williams on board, Buffalo Rumblings breaks down the Bills defensive ends.

-- Bucs Nation interviews the Bucs’ sixth-round draft pick, Keith Tandy.

Hockey

-- A love (and hate) Buffalo Sabres story, via Die By The Blade.

-- Colin Cowherd said some silly things about hockey. You shouldn’t be mad, says Blueshirt Banter.

-- Broad Street Hockey says the Flyers are really good and always have been.

Combat Sports

-- Bloody Elbow’s Brent Brookhouse critiques the rush to judge Manny Pacquaio by the media regardless of what he actually said.

-- Steph Daniels talks to UFC star Thiago Alves.

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