I was checking out the Black Blog Awards website when I noticed the damnedest thing… Under the heading for Best Sports/Recreation Blog there are 3 names and yes, you guessed it… I’m not one of them.
The three finalist are The Starting Five, The Sideline Show Sportstalk Radio, and Sportz-N-Album Cutz. The Starting Five gets my vote because not only have I never heard of the other two sites, it is the most solid BOO sports blog that you’ll find. The Five get good interviews, go in-depth with their topics, and they have a solid group of commenters that go left, right, and often straight to the heart of a story. The site has biases but they don’t hide them, and even though it seems like they’re always about race, they’re actually reppin’ for equality.
With that said, NO, I don’t feel snubbed by the committee. Nope. Not at all. I mean, if I did feel that they overlooked some of post I did about Jason Whitlock or Kobe Bryant, I wouldn’t say anything about it. Why would I? It would read like I was whining. And I wouldn’t do that. I don’t care enough. If I cared I would dedicate at least a paragraph to the humorous videos and NBA player/lesbian bar story that I wrote about. Plus, who the hell am I to feel dissed? If I was aggy about my little blog getting left off the list what about the likes of Nation Of Islam Sportsblog, Leave The Man Alone, Ms. Gossip, Jones On The NBA, Pyle Of A List, and a number of other sites that put in major work? So again, NO, I don’t feel snubbed.
But please believe.. I don’t get a nod next year, I’m going out like this…
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August 23rd, 2007 at 8:48 am
Holy crap, they got Negroes over at The Basketball Jones???
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:30 am
You shouldn’t feel snubbed; the nominees are always picked by the public, and the top three most nominated become the finalists. The good thing about this year is that each category will have two winners — a popular vote winner and a judges’ vote winner. So eve if your blog was nominated and didn’t become a finalists, it could still be picked by the judges as a finalist, because they make their pics from all the nominees, not just the top three.
You should come join the Black Weblog Awards Google Group at http://www.google.com/group/black-weblog-awards and give us your input. We’re always looking for ways to improve and appreciate input from users.
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:45 am
@ Gossip.. not that i’m aware of but late night blogging mixed with multiple gchats and blog reading while going over the team usa game can lead to me being brain dead.. so TNJ got a free mistaken shout out. thanks tho.
@BWAA I don’t have too much input.. I was shoutin out some of the other BSBers and the BBA
August 23rd, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Greek is the new Black!
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:16 pm
what up skeets? ive been sayin that for years…
September 16th, 2007 at 8:15 am
Sup, this is Btwice.net (Producer) of the SidelineShow.com.
Since you haven’t heard of us, check us out. You might just end up liking what you here!
Keep up the good work.