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Best Of The SB Nation Network: May 30, 2012

We have 321 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 flat!

College Sports

-- Burnt Orange Nation opines on why Texas may actually not be interested in seeing the Big 12 get any bigger.

-- Addicted To Quack with a short remembrance of Oregon’s greatest athlete of all time, Steve Prefontaine.

-- BC Interruption points a talon at The U as the ACC realignment blame game rolls along.

-- Pacific Takes and Building The Dam discuss the notion of the Pac-12 seceding in anticipation of super-conferences.

-- Backing The Pack says in college baseball, the state of North Carolina is king.

Basketball

-- Which NBA draft lottery team deserved to win? The bloggers that cover them state their cases.
-- A look at general roster construction: Are jacks of all trades preferable to specialists in one area?

-- The Bobcats owe the Bulls a first-round pick sometime, so it’s best they didn’t win the lottery.

Hockey

-- Blueshirt Banter has a summer survival guide for Rangers fans.

-- In Lou We Trust breaks down the goal that killed the Rangers in the Eastern Conference Finals.

-- Hockey Wilderness really hopes Zach Parise isn’t headed to New York.

Football

-- Is Peyton Manning the answer to everything that ails the Broncos? Mile High Report says you shouldn't believe so.

-- Everything you wanted to know about Tim Tebow, courtesy of Gang Green Nation.

-- Field Gulls checks on what recent Super Bowl winners were like the year before they won, to see if the Seahawks stand a chance this year.

-- Do the Redskins have the secondary personnel to compete in the NFC East? Hogs Haven isn't sure.

Baseball

-- Purple Row reports that the Rockies have designated the apparently not-so-young Jamie Moyer for assignment.

-- Fish Stripes says that the 2012 Miami Marlins are the most .500 team ever.

-- Red Reporter attempts to evaluate the upcoming trade market and how the Reds could upgrade their roster.

-- Camden Chat looks back at Mike Mussina’s near-perfect game in 1997.

Combat Sports

-- Bloody Elbow’s Steph Daniels interviews UFC heavyweight Roy Nelson about sponsorships and steroids, among other things.
-- Scott Christ of Bad Left Hook writes a touching eulogy to the grievously injured Paul Williams’ career as a boxer.

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