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Best Of The SB Nation Network: September 5, 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!

Basketball

It’s Disappointment Day in SB Nation’s NBA land. Here’s there great examples.

-- For the Rockets, it must be Eddie Griffin.

-- The Detroit Piston find their biggest disappointment in the 2009 offseason.

-- Chris Webber left a disappointing legacy in the Bay Area.

College Sports

-- Good Bull Hunting is busy recommending bourbon, previewing the weekend slate and the Aggies’ first SEC game vs. Florida.

-- Conquest Chronicles rifles through last weekend’s games in search of actual contenders.

-- Blogger So Dear looks at every ACC coach by karaoke song choice.

-- Black Heart Gold Pants hits the road with Iowa State’s AD Jamie Pollard to look at some billboard advertising.

-- Gobbler Country reviews the Techs, Va over Ga by FG in OT.

Hockey

-- Tampa Bay’s 1-3-1 trap will be part of NHL 13, writes Raw Charge.

-- It was Shane Doan day yesterday at Five For Howling.

-- What’s it like to play hockey on LSD? Battle of California attempts to find out.

Combat Sports

-- Cageside Seats’ John Nash looks way back to the 1908 “Match of the Century” between Frank Gotch and Georg Hackenschmidt

Soccer

-- A loss on the road is whole lot more fun to accept when you have fellow supporters to join your in tear-filled beers, as Burgundy Wave recently learned.
-- The more things change, the more the stay the same and that sucks for Toronto FC fans, writes Waking the Red.

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