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Best Of The SB Nation Network: June 6, 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!

Soccer

-- XBox and the Seattle Sounders are a match made in heaven, but Sounder at Heart thinks the gaming console and MLS might be even better together.
-- In the midst of a frustrating season, Stumptown Footy thinks the only thing the Timbers must change is change itself.

Basketball

-- Miami Heat writer Diego Quezada says attacks on head coach Eric Spoelstra lack nuance.

-- Clips Nation has some calming words and history for fans freaking over the loss of GM Neil Olshey.

-- When the Knicks were eliminated from the playoffs they went fishing -- literally. Posting and Toasting has the pics.

-- In Oklahoma City, when you hit a big shot in the playoffs they put a beard on a building in your honor.

Hockey

-- The Copper & Blue on Steve Tambellini’s contract extension.

-- Canes Country looks at UFA’s from the Pacific Division.

College Sports

-- College football has unofficially arrived with EA’s demo release for “NCAA Football 13” and Land-Grant Holy Land has all the team rankings.

-- Conquest Chronicles received the syllabus for Lane Kiffin’s lecture series on the four basic laws of supply and demand.

-- Roll Bama Roll recounts the 1967 walk-ons who integrated Alabama Crimson Tide football.

-- As the jury for Jerry Sandusky’s trial is set, Black Shoe Diaries laments the loss of Penn State football joy and wonders if it will return.

Baseball

-- AZ SnakePit checks in with Diamondbacks players’ performance from the last week of games.

-- Over The Monster reviews the Red Sox’s draft and finds it lacking in impact talent.

-- Fake Teams asks, from a fantasy perspective, how much can you trust Justin Smoak?

-- The Good Phight is launching a campaign to get Chooch (catcher Carlos Ruiz) into the All-Star Game.

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