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Please Welcome Sounder At Heart!

SB Nation is pleased to announce the arrival of Dave Clark and his excellent blog covering the MLS' Seattle Sounders: Sounder At Heart! With Steve Davis in the fold as our league manager for soccer and writing for Daily Soccer Fix, we are slowly expanding our soccer coverage and Dave and his Sounders blog could not be a better first step to that end. We are thrilled to have him on board!

Welcome to the team Dave!

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Happy 6th Birthday, SB Nation!!!

It was six years ago today (November 6, 2003) that a small typepad site called Athletics Nation: Baseball Country officially launched.  It was my small foray into starting up sports coverage in a new way.  The goal was for a true fan of a team to direct the conversation instead of waiting for media to set the agenda and discussion.  I was tired of the top down approach that ESPN and other giant sports entities had hoisted upon me.  No one was having a conversation about the Oakland Athletics in an intelligent, informed and passionate fashion. 

It's been a long time since that small typepad site launched.  Athletics Nation has evolved WAAAAY beyond that typepad site.  Over the past six years, SB Nation has accomplished some incredible things.  And in recent years, it's gone far beyond anything we could accomplish through the first three or four years.  Thanks to a fantastic and remarkable tech team and a great CEO who embraces the core values this company started with, we've accomplished so much.  And it's only just begun.

We've built the best blogging platform on the Web.  We've brought together millions of sports fans in an entertaining and engaging way, unlike anything else out there.  We purposely aimed to create blogs that are as passionate as you are.  We turned strangers into friends over the common passions of their teams.  We launched 220 blogs, had more than 20 million comments and one huge hub site.  But more than all that, I feel like I've developed a ton of great friendships with so many people, from all our fantastic bloggers to the community members I've met at so many different events.  My relationship with the bloggers has been great and even though I work with most of them from afar, I feel like they are all my brothers in arms in this new media landscape.  They have made the power of our communities palpable and have helped change sports coverage forever.

On a personal note, it's amazing just to think how much my life has changed since I started this company.  I've moved from Sacramento, California to Southern California.  I've had one daughter and I have another one that will be born in early 2010.  But SB Nation and working to build a company that will always put the fans first has been the main constant in my life.  It's become the greatest job a person could ever ask for, even during its most trying times, it's better than anything else I've ever done.  I've dedicated all my energy and my life to making sure that this network will always be of, by and for the fans.  No matter what we do, it will always be about empowering you and giving you a place to show your true colors.  

Happy Birthday, SB Nation.  Here's to many, many more.

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Seven of 10 Top College Blogs Are SB Nation Blogs

Yes, you read that right, according to the Sports Media Challenge, seven of the top 10 college football blogs are SB Nation blogs.  The list looks like this:

Sports Blogs Index™
Top 10 College Football Blogs
Congratulations to Tomahawk Nation, Every Day Should be Saturday, Rocky Top Talk, Roll Bama Roll, Black Heart Gold Pants, Burnt Orange Nation and Black Shoe Diaries!  And congrats to the others on the list as well.  It's a great accomplishment.

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Edmonton Oilers Prospect Visits Copper & Blue

SB Nation has always strived to bring fans closer to players before they become the big stars.  That tradition continues with Copper & Blue who had the chance to talk with top Edmonton Oiler prospect Teemu Hartikainen.  It's great to see these kids before they turn into the stars of tomorrow.

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Congratulations to Pinstripe Alley and the New York Yankees

New York Yankees Mariano Rivera, left, Robinson Cano and Nick Swisher, right, hold up the championship trophy after winning the Major League Baseball World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in New York.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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2 days ago: New York Yankees Mariano Rivera, left, Robinson Cano and Nick Swisher, right, hold up the championship trophy after winning the Major League Baseball World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in New York.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

27 World Championships is impressive no matter the arguments against it (believe me, I've used them all myself).  I just wanted to congratulate the good folks over at SB Nation's Yankee blog Pinstripe Alley.  And a word of thanks to the Phillies who put up a, pardon the expression, Good Phight.  Given the Devils in 2000 and 2001, I know how tough it is to come this close to winning it back to back only to fall short.  It hurts.  For a long time.

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Podium Cafe Interviews Tyler Farrar

There isn't really an American rider right now that has captured more attention in 2009 than Tyler Farrar.  Well unless your name is Armstrong, but Armstrong didn't have nearly the success in this calendar year that Farrar did.  Podium Cafe, SB Nation's outstanding cycling community, had the recent opportunity to interview Farrar about his remarkable year.

Here is Farrar on how he plans on challenging Mark Cavendish's dominance in 2010:

PdC: So the plan is if you have enough of a competing train you can wrest control from Columbia?

Tyler Farrar: I hope so, yeah. There’s not really an argument this year that Columbia was the best team in the world in leading out sprints, they don’t make mistakes often, but next year’s a new season, and I think you can see with my team as the season went on they started to get confidence in me and believe in me more, and that always helps guys commit to riding the sprints. Actually a lot of the guys had never really tried to lead anyone out before, so it was really a learning experience for a lot of the guys on our team. Looking to next year now the guys have a bit more experience, they have confidence in me, and we brought in some more guys with experience already, so I think we’ll have a strong team for next year.

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The Slipper Still Fits to be on Spokane Radio Show about Zags

SB Nation's Gonzaga blog The Slipper Still Fits will be on local Spokane station 1510 KGA Radio, which is the flagship station for Gonzaga basketball.  If you happen to live in the area, you can tune in at 1:20 p.m. PST/4:20 p.m. EST on Monday, November 2.

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Golden State of Mind Night at a Warriors Game

Our communities are all about empowering the fan.  And part of that is getting the fans all together at times for a big celebration of friendship and camaraderie.  SB Nation community Golden State of Mind is one of the largest trafficked sites in our network.  And it shows based on the gatherings that GSoM has at Warriors games.  They recently had one of their biggest and you can see how it turned out here.  You can see even more photos here.

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