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Waggle Room Breaking New Ground With LPGA Deal

SB Nation's golf blog, Waggle Room scores a hole in one (sorry) by landing an innovative arrangement with the LPGA.

Under the agreement with the Tour, Waggle Room will hold a weekly video interview with one of the top players in the field, live from the tournament site. The interviews will be conducted via video chat, recorded and then posted to the Waggle Room YouTube channel.

The LPGA might also use the interviews on their web site.

This is a fantastic example of a sports league partnering with our network to reach their fans directly.

Well done, Ryan! <golf clap/>

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Swish Appeal Integrates Access With Analysis And Voice

Yes, it is "only" women's basketball which doesn't exactly have "mass" appeal but there's no denying the great work being done by Q McCall over at "Swish" Appeal.

Q is currently going around the entire WNBA, conducting phone interviews with head coaches or GM's for each team and then smoothly integrating their responses into his already excellent statistical, positional and salary analysis.

His approach goes beyond the typical Q and A type interview to mix in what's always been the purview of the blog with a true insider's perspective giving fans a highly valuable and unique vision into their teams.

So far he's done the Sun, Lynx and Dream with more to come. I've heard from a source in the WNBA that Q's work is quickly gaining notice and recognition in front offices and this only helps raise the overall profile and reputation of the entire network. 

In the process of doing these free agency roster stories, Q recently broke the news that the Connecticut Sun will in fact draft UConn's Tina Charles with the #1 pick in the up-coming draft. This had been hinted at, implied, and generally assumed but Coach Mike Thibault's direct quote on the matter to Swish Appeal was the first actual confirmation:

"I would think it would have to be something crazy that I can't even fathom right now that would make us change our mind," said Thibault when asked about drafting Charles in a phone interview with Swish Appeal Wednesday. "She's the reason we made the deal and she's clearly the number one pick. It's a pretty easy choice for us."

 

Keep up the great work, Q!

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Better Know a Blogger: Stampede Blue's Bradley Wells

Well Sunday is the biggest event in all of sports.  The Super Bowl.  The Colts take on the Saints in what will hopefully be one of the most memorable Super Bowls of all time.  One can dream, right?  

This week I figured it would make sense for people to get to know Brad Wells, the main man at our Colts site Stampede Blue since last week was all about the Saints Dave Cariello.  Both Brad and Dave are actually on the ground in Miami right now, working their way around the Super Bowl media crowd.  So without further ado, let's get to know Brad Wells.

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Please Welcome Bitter And Blue!

SB Nation is pleased to announce the arrival of Danny Pugsley and his awesome blog covering Manchester City Football, Bitter And Blue! Danny as been blogging City independently for a few years now and we are thrilled to have him join the team as we build out our coverage of the world's game! Keep your eyes open for more soccer blogs coming soon!

Welcome Aboard Danny!

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Wayne Vore at Pounding the Rock has built a great community of San Antonio Spurs fans both in Texas and around the world.

When a regular contributor his site came from all the way from Argentina to see the Spurs, local media took notice of this great story.

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Mountain West Connection Interviews Top Recruit on National Signing Day

Kenneth Scott, a top wide receiver, committed today to Utah.  And on National Signing Day, Mountain West Connection had the opportunity to talk about his commitment to Utah.  

Scott said no other school was in the running.

Were any other schools close to Utah?

Honestly there weren't because none of them offered the same stuff that Utah put on the table.  I just felt like Utah was the right choice after my research

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AZ Snakepit Interviews Diamondbacks GM Josh Byrnes

Baseball season will be here before you know it. Pitchers and catchers will be reporting at the end of this month.  And before you know it, you'll be cranking up some Dire Straits in preparation for the 2010 year.  AZ Snakepit secured an early treat for Diamondbacks fans by running an interview with Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Josh Byrnes.

Josh got into the Bob Melvin firing:

AZ: It wasn't long into the season before Bob Melvin was fired. Does this tie into what you said about us underachieving in 2008? Or what changed between Opening Day and 29 games in, that led to the release of Bob Melvin?

JB: Certainly Bob deserves a lot of credit for all the success we had here in 2007 - our success that year probably took people by surprise. And how we won, it's ironic, because some of those attributes that lead to winning close games, one of which you could argue is luck, just didn't repeat in 2008 and 2009. I think 2008 was disappointing. Internally, both with Bob and me, and with others, we had a lot of discussion, what went wrong and why. Not only was the division more winnable than we would have expected, but to win 82 and play the way we did was disappointing.

There were no ultimatums going into 2009, but there was certainly an expectation that we needed to reverse this trend of how we were playing. And I didn't sense that it was reversing, so felt that it was necessary to make a change.

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SB Nation at the Super Bowl

In case I haven't mentioned it here, SB Nation has three writers at the Super Bowl.  Brad Wells from Colts site Stampede Blue, Dave Cariello from Canal Street Chronicles and Joel Thorman from Arrowhead Pride (but is acting on behalf of SBNation.com).  Brad is already there and filing reports from the ground in advance of media day tomorrow.

Stay tuned to our Colts blog, our Saints blog and SBNation.com for the best coverage of the Super Bowl from a fan perspective anywhere.

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