Dishing it off to... Rethinking Basketball

I do try quite hard to try to come up with new, fresh ideas for discussion here. What I have realized in the past few months is that it is extremely difficult to break into the world of sports commentary and come up with something new.

As far as I can see it, there are essentially three ways of discussing sports:

1) Reporting. With major networks like ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, CBS, etc., it would be rather pointless (and presumptuous) for me to believe that I can get you news faster than any of these. Nor do I have more accurate insight than established blogs like MGoBlog. For these reasons, I tend to default to the following two concepts...

2) Pontificating. Such articles are those, of course, in which I get on my soapbox and blather about what I think, hoping that you are all so generous as to believe that any of it is worth reading and taking into consideration.

3) Traveshamockery. Sometimes I just can't keep a straight face when thinking about certain events in sports. Like when a NASCAR race is on TV. I laugh. Or I cry. It's a nice change of pace to being serious all of the time.

I very much prefer to stick to the latter two, and perhaps through these mediums you might find out something you hadn't yet read or seen by chance.

All of that being said, I do acknowledge that I am still finding my voice, my Muse, in getting a more focused guiding direction for my rantings. Or maybe I don't. If any of you prefer the disjointed attention-deficit that afflicts my thoughts, please let me know. I appreciate the encouragement.

Anyway, while I don't wish to be a switch board to route you to other sites' material, occasionally I will feel compelled to let you know when I see an article, blog entry, or other such material that strikes me as particularly interesting or compelling.

Here is one such article. From Rethinking Basketball, it's a pretty outstanding piece of journalism regarding how the internet can help the WNBA, or any organization, for that matter, better market itself.

It's this kind of writing that I most admire, that which takes something as seemingly innocuous as Candace Parker's first WNBA dunk -- though many of us fans viewed it as a major event -- and peer into a deeper meaning that wouldn't have occured to 99% of us. It's a great read, even if you're not a WNBA fan.