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Recently sports blogs have been highly scrutinized by the likes of ESPN, Buzz Bissinger, Bob Costas and many other "real" journalists. Some of their main complaints has been that blogs are malicious, gossipy and vulgar which a lot of them are (including this one). They feel that regular fans shouldn't have the right to post their opinions without formal training despite the fact that in America we have rights like freedom of speech and freedom of press. So as a result they've taken some strong stands against blogs and the sad part is that a lot of blogs are feeling the pressure and folding.

In an LA times article talking about how sports blogs are becoming more and more censored made me realize that it's true. I've seen a decline in the normal edginess of blogs like Deadspin and The Big Lead which are some of favorites. Why are they softening up?

One reason for their recent softness is the fact that these blogs bring in so much daily traffic that they feel the need to only use only legit sources and sound more professional but at what cost?

When rumors and pictures like the Kobe Bryant cheating on his wife rumor and the Matt Leinart pictures were released, the blogs that reported them got tons of traffic. Whats the reason??

It's because that is how our society thinks now. Whether the journalists like it or not, people want dirt. People want to know all the scandals. People want to see celebrities in peculiar and sometimes embarrassing situations because it makes them more human.

When I first started this blog, the intention was for it to just be a sports blog. I aspired to be the next ESPN but when I actually write about sports and the scores and things like that, NO ONE READS IT! The stories that get the most attention are the scandals and the half naked bitches. If you just clicked one of those links, you just proved my point.

You have to give the people what they want if you want them to come back right?

These blogs are so well established that they will get traffic no matter what they write but what about the average up and coming bloggers such as myself. We need these scandals and naked women to draw in new readers.

After talking about the current state of sports blogging, the article then talked about the dirty and it's creator Nik Richie. The Dirty specializes in candid, salacious photos and has become known in the sports world for posting snapshots of famous athletes in private and sometimes embarrassing moments.

Nik has decided that he is not going to change his approach to blogging despite all the pressure. When the Kobe Bryant rumor broke, some blogs were cautious about posting about it but not the Dirty. They put some of the most info out about it and were not concerned with the repercussions even though they got a cease and desist letter from Kobe's lawyers. Nik stated how he felt about it on a recent radio appearance.

"All these other sites are evolving because everyone's putting pressure on them for their journalistic integrity," he said. "That's kind of a sell-out. . . . I think it's 100% less fun."

I love that quote. It says exactly how I feel about it. That is the reason most of us got into this in the first place. It is a very fun career to have and now guys are trying to be all politically correct and everything but it doesn't make any sense. If someone wants to read an unbiased, well written yet boring article than they will go to ESPN or CNN or something like that. Thats not what most of us aspiring to be.

I like to post about half naked women in bikini's, scandals and things like that mainly because if I wasn't writing about it, I would probably be looking those things up myself. Like it or not journalists, this is what the people want. So I just have one question.... ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?!?

What do you think?  Do you agree with sports blogs cleaning things up or do you think that they should remain edgy?

I just woke up and heard the news today that Comedian George Carlin passed away at the age of 71. I was a big Carlin fan just because he wasn't scared to say how he felt about things. I'm sure he's offended many people along the way but hate him or love him it was hard to not respect him.

Here is a video of him doing a bit on sports...

Ok so it's been a long week and a half but I am back online and ready to go harder.  Athletes who are fuckin up everywhere beware.  I will be calling you out.  Have a nice day...

Ok so you guys are probably wondering where I've been and why I haven't been updating.  Well I'm still alive and ok.  The past couple of weeks have been crazy as far as my computer goes.

First I download a trojan from a torrent site.  Which really sucked.  People who make viruses and trojans and things of that sort should die a slow death by a botched surgery with needles poking them and their eyeballs.

Anyway, I did my best to remove the trojan but there still seem to be traces of it on my computer.  UGH!!!! WTF.... YOU LOSERS NEED TO GET A LIFE!!!

So then after dealing with that for a few days and trying to get my computer together, my internet gets cut off and I won't have the money to pay for it to be put back on until probably next week.  SUCKS!!!

Oh well.  So right now I've snuck into the job I was just fired from about a month ago at the Methodist Hospital and I'm updating.  LoL!  Getting on the computer was the reason I got fired in the first place.  Hopefully they don't catch me...

It'll be worth it, especially if your girl has some ass....

Ok today I will be working on other projects that need to get done as soon as possible so I probably won't be updating SportFiends and if I do it will probably be later.  Yeah I will probably write a couple of quick updates later.  I don't want to leave you guys hanging.

Ok due to some recent changes in my lifestyle I will be writing the sports wrap again.  I will go into those life change details a little later but for now, enjoy the sports wraps that I will be writing this and every morning.

I think writing the wraps on the weekend will be my biggest challenge because my weekends are normally very very busy.  I don't have normal weekends like someone my age I guess.  I can't just sleep in.  Oh well.  All of my struggles and the turmoil in my life is helping me to build very strong character.

I will not lose.  I will win.

Tony Kornheiser announced that he will be retiring from the Washington Post on his Radio Show yesterday. The DC Sports blog has more info about his announcement on the show.

As much as I hate Tony Kornheiser on MNF, I love him on PTI. Unlike many bloggers, I really didn't get a chance to read him much in thepost because I am not from the DC area. Being from New Jersey I usually only read the NY Times and the NJ Star Ledger. Even so, I have a lot of respect for Kornheiser, he has been doing it a long time yet he isn't like most old guys who constantly bash bloggers and he's actually really funny.

“All I ever wanted to be was a newspaper writer,” he said, which is not something that anyone under the age of 30 will ever say again. “This other stuff is great, but I don’t care about it,” he continued. “In my mind that’s what it says on the headstone, it says ‘newspaper guy.’ “

But he also said he signed the papers to take the Post's buyout last night, after working here for, I believe, 29 years. He said he still might contract with The Post to do his Talking Points videos and his Page 2 excerpts, and he said some people in the leadership asked him to stay but didn't really insist, and even though he'll keep doing PTI and the radio show and MNF, he said he feared he'd never have the moral high ground again.

Thankfully he will still do PTI. :-D.