SBlogs, anyone?

A good 24 hours for sports blogs. Firstly, the New York Times profiles Will Leitch's dazzling Deadspin in yesterday's sports supplement. If you go to his website, you might even spot the odd contribution from yours truly. My, I feel quite honoured: I was offered a comment invite before the world found out about the site. This must have been what it felt like to have been a fan of the Arctic Monkeys pre Domino records signing them.

And for this week only, the witty, acerbic Chuck Klosterman is probably being paid an obscene amount of money to write about the Super Bowl for ESPN in Detroit. His blog is only up for a week but it now ensures that these two sites will be more entertaining than the game itself. The pen - or at least the keyboard - is mightier than the sport it covers...

www.deadspin.com

sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=klosterman/blog

Here's a brief example of what you can reliably expect with Klosterman...

"I guarantee this will be the greatest one-week sports blog ever written, or at least the best one since Jacqueline Susann's unforgettable blogging of the 1967 Ice Bowl. If this is not the best sports blog you have ever read, I will personally drive to your home, clean your garage, wash your car, shingle your doghouse with pancakes, and blow up your children with dynamite. That is my guarantee.

I shall not Vander-jack this opportunity; like Kobe against the Raptors, I am Napoleon Solo (i.e., unstoppable one-on-one). So, wassup, rockers? Do you (metaphorically) feel me? It's time we all embrace a little game I like to call North American football. It's time to make keen references to Shaun Alexander's addled skull. It's time to get punched by random strangers. This is Super Bowl XL. And I am ready."