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That Sports Blog Ain’t Even A Blog

So it turns out that oddsnark isn’t the lowest form of life on the Interweb, despite what many of our “fans” say in their e-mail missives every week. Chris at End of the Bench shines the spotlight on a site called That Sports Blog that isn’t even a blog at all. Some technogeek there figured out a way to take RSS feeds from some top sports blogs and is republishing those posts in their entirety. Now, some call this unethical, some call it downright theft. We say it’s absolutely brilliant and wonder why we didn’t think of it first. Imagine getting all the joy and satisfaction of having your own sports blog (not to mention the fame, fortune, and girls that go with it) without all that troublesome and time consuming writing. And who cares about those poor saps at Deadspin and YAY! Sports whose work it is you’re stealing? This is the Internet and there are no rules, right?

Seriously though, this is bad and it is spreading. A couple other sites called SportsOrbis and Brawl Hall are engaged in the same kind of behavior. YAY! Sports, though, is fighting back with some hilarious posts meant to let SportsOrbis readers know they are being duped. Hopefully we can help by getting the word out so other people will stop reading these sites.

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