About The Sports Blog
What are the components of sports? For starters, at an early age, sports involvement is designed to teach you things like sportsmanship, competitive spirit, and teamwork. Next, there is usually a set of game rules to follow when taking part in sports. And finally, there's a team or individual competition that yields a winner.
Sounds simple, but when it comes to the world of sports, debates over which team is the best, whether or not the coach blew the game, or which athlete deserves the highest accolades, can rage on and on. The Sports Blog is here to provide a play-by-play and help keep score of the latest sports-related news and views.
From game rules and regulations and recent sports scandals to controversies concerning performance-enhancing drugs to over-the-top contracts, sports stories are always big news. Whether you love baseball, football, hockey, basketball, golf, or other sports, add this to your required reading list, sports fans!

Pigskin Bloggers Is Continuing, Moving and Maybe Even Ch-Ch-Ch-Changing
Thanks in part to the unexpected response to the original announcement of Pigskin Bloggers shutting down, well, Pigskin Bloggers is not shutting down. It is, however, moving to another site ...

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Requiem for Pigskin Bloggers
A little over two years ago, this site, Pigskin Bloggers, began with AOL asking its Sports Community members to blog about their favor...

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NFL FanHouse Team Previews
Last week we touted the launch of NFL FanHouse and today AOL sports does more of the same by featuring their FanHouse-driven NFL team previews package on the main page, front and...

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Joey Porter Will Scorn a Bitch
It isn't just that Joey Porter is one of the most feared and finest players in today's NFL, it's also that he's one of the league's mo...

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The Esquire Interview: Clinton Portis
While the question around DC remains, "Will Portis play against Minnesota this week?," I'm, as usual, more concerned with the man's social li...

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Jacked Up, KSK Style
Now this is just good fun. Courtesy of the good fellas at Kissing Suzy Kolber comes a three minute highlight reel of "measty" NFL hits as scor...

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FO on the Fence With Monk
This is old, but Football Outsiders Mike Tanier and Michael David Smith weigh in on HOF debates and lump Monk in with other great 80s-90s receive...

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AOL Sports Launches NFL FanHouse; NCAA and More to Come
In 2004 I began blogging here, at Mr. Irrelevant, and there, at Pigskin Bloggers. In 2005 we began podcasting a blog-driven radio show, Sports Bloggers Live. And now, in ...

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