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ESPN Fears The Blogosphere

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The Worldwide Leader in Sports may be as soft as Chuck Liddell's jaw when it comes to acknowledging other outlets for sports commentary exist online.

To paraphrase Pacino in "The Godfather Part III," just when I thought that I was off work, it pulls me back in. Some early morning errands on a nice Memorial Day weekend Saturday morning would be a perfect time to listen to some sports talk.

On goes ESPN radio's AM GameDay, with Dave Shore and Matt Mosley. What are they talking about on this nice morning? NBA finals? Stanley Cup? Baseball? Nope. They were talking about blogging.

Sigh. I stopped at the post office, listened, and took notes.

Mosley has a fairly new blog, called

Then Mosley commented how Shore was shaking his head, as if to say 'don't mention their names on the air.' Shore tried to brush it off and move on, which was a shame because that could have been a much more interesting exchange.

It did expose a little chink in ESPN's armor. The likes of

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