Sports and Blogging

Here's a little media flare up worth some attention, an article in the NY Times called "A Confrontation on ‘Costas Now’ Worthy of a Blog" by Richard Sandomir.

As with all good journalism, the first paragraph says it all:

If the sports blogosphere needed someone to symbolize the mainstream media’s fear and suspicion of its influence, it found him in Buzz Bissinger on Tuesday night on a live, 90-minute edition of “Costas Now” on HBO. Bissinger, the author of “Friday Night Lights” and other bestsellers, stepped forward fulminating during a 16-minute discussion with Will Leitch of Deadspin.com and Braylon Edwards of the Cleveland Browns.

A video of said fulmination is up on deadspin.com itself.

One notable quote: "The Web is a meritocracy," says Leitch.

Dave.