Access, favor, and discretion?

(Yes, this is an introductory post for yet another amateur sports blog. Just give us 3 minutes here.)

Sports are a unique form of entertainment, and nowhere is this fact more apparent than in amateur sports analysis. In music, movies, and books, every patron is a critic, but sport seems to encourage amateur analysis like no other. A Google search for "sports" returns almost 2 trillion hits. Where is the discerning sports nut to go?

For the purposes of comparison, let's check out sports blog deadspin.com. Deadspin is the hip destination for the modern sports fan. Its tagline is "Sports News without Access, Favor, or Discretion". Lets compare ourselves to Deadspin, word by word.

Sports – OK, we're all about that. But we also throw in little bits about music and food - specifically, gigantic California burritos with lots of guacamole.

News - Well, Curry and Rice Sports is not going to be breaking very much news except for Wamiq's rec soccer team's scores and Jonathann's NCAA '08 game recaps. But analysis of news – well, there will be a lot of that.

Without – Wamiq really thinks that seven letter prepositions in titles should be capitalized. Jonathann concurs.

Access – Our access is unparalleled. Jonathann once had breakfast with John Stockton and Wamiq recently spoke to a very stoned employee of DC United’s youth development program. Can anyone at Deadspin can claim to have done those things? As should be abundantly clear, this is the type of access you won’t get anywhere else.

Favor – We're sports fans. We're going to favor the sports we love and the teams we love. Jonathann is from Jawjuh, so expect extra coverage of Hotlanta teams and Duke basketball. You can also expect coverage of Tottenham Hotspur, because it is the greatest football team (and it is not gay, as his fiancee claims . . . not that there’s anything wrong with that . . . ). His main sports are baseball, pro and college basketball, pro and college football, and soccer around the globe. Wamiq is from Joisey, so expect extra coverage of: the Knicks, the Mets, the Jets, the Devils, and the Red Bulls. He also supports Tottenham Hotspur, because it is the greatest football team (and still not gay, though he’d proudly support them if they were). His main sports are American and English soccer, pro basketball, pro baseball, and a little bit of everything else from tennis to cricket to ice skating. What? No. He didn't say that. Not ice skating (but OMG, whither Kimmie Meissner??). Basically, favor: we've got a lot of it. But we're aware of it. So, you can expect most of what you read here to be pretty objective, and you can expect us to issue a warning if we think we might not be. This applies to both sports analysis and meta-analysis. We read so much in the way of sports commentary that we'll be analyzing the analysis. Our patience for poor writing or reasoning is low (which is why Jonathann beats himself after writing every article). But it is objective. Read this blog and you'll know which sports columnists are insightful, and which should, in the words of the Teen Girl Squad, "stop saying words."

Or – Leaving a two letter preposition in lowercase is acceptable.

Discretion – Well, we've none of that.

So, to recap, we provide sports analysis without access or discretion, but with favor. Hm. Does that make us a biased Deadspin?

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