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Best Of The SB Nation Network: August 21, 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!

College Sports

-- Card Chronicle: List of Words Louisville Athletes Can't Tweet.

-- A Sea of Blue: NCAA Athletics: Are Kentucky and Louisville Infringing on the First Amendment Rights of Players?

-- South Orange Juice: With Aquille Carr in Question, Class of 2013 Options Emerge.

-- The UConn Blog: For a mere $10 million you can name UConn's basketball practice facility.

-- Cowboy Altitude: The Nickelback College Football Highlight Challenge.

-- EDSBS: THE TOP 25 REVIEWED: EVERYONE IS TERRIBLE.

-- One Bronco Nation: The Twitter 100: A Boise State fan's guide on who to follow.

-- Alligator Army: Florida Football Recruiting Analysis: The Gators' String of Decommitments.

-- Red Cup Rebellion: Ole Miss (Still) Losing the Image Battle.

Football

-- Stampede Blue reviews the play of five Colts from Monday night’s pre-season game.
-- Behind The Steel Curtain recounts what Steelers coaches and players said after their last pre-season game.
-- A review of the Eagles by Bleeding Green Nation after playing the Patriots.
-- How did the Patriots rookies perform on Monday night? Pats Pulpit has the details.

Basketball

-- CJ Miles is already endearing himself to his new fans.
-- Deconstructing Amare Stoudemire’s promise to play more defense this year.
-- Already seeing high expectations for the Hawks this year.

Soccer

-- Brad Evans seems to be excelling in his new role as utility player, writes Sounder at Heart.

-- Not so shockingly, it turns out that avoiding red cards is helping fuel FC Dallas’ turnaround, observes Big D Soccer.

Combat Sports

-- MMA Mania’s Brian Hemminger interviews prospect Tyson Nam and gets some insight on what it’s like to be just starting out in MMA.
-- Bloody Elbow’s David Castillo essays the topic of “Ronda Rousey Versus ‘Cyborg’ Santos, Steroids, And The Psychology Of Sin”.

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