Is anyone excited about this year's Ryder Cup? No Tiger. No Montie. What's the point then right? I'm sure there will be song very intriguing stories to come out of it, like some rookie playing out of his mind and stealing the show. But really, you have to admit how difficult it's going to be to actually watch this thing. So how about we give you a few reasons!

Oh the 7 deadly sins, how much fun are these? Sports bloggers fall into almost all of these categories with regularity, and that my friends, is not always a bad thing. In fact, I would argue that in order to be successful at this, you need to be a little "sinful". Of course, we are tweaking these to fit into our little scheme here, but it should still be entertaining enough. Let's dig right into thisa€¦

Yes he has become the new online editor of SLAM online...give him some props!

Cuzoogle cracks the top 25 with a big jump to #18! Congrats to Cuzzy as I think we can all give a nod to the amazing work he's done over this past month. We also made the jump into the top 25 which I'm sure comes as no surprise. (Hah, bout time!) Here are the March, April, May, and June results if you would like to compare any of the previous results or big jumps some of these blogs have made.

Please welcome this list of ways to guarantee that if drafted into the NBA, would make you into a surefire bust!

I have nothing really to say except this will go down as the most boring draft of all time.

I'm sure you've all noticed that Kevin Garnett continually pounds the hell out of his chest after a big play, momentum swing, or to just get his team jacked up and frankly, it's obnoxious as hell. The chest pound usually includes puckered lips and his signature evil eyes which of course makes it that much more inescapable.

In the beginning of this blog's life, we ran our initial 100 Fluffs(tips) to Building a Better Sports Blog that received a good reception. Well since posts like that gave us enough love to keep doing this, we thought it was time for 80 more!

Trying to put the facts together on why Paul Pierce deserved to win the NBA Finals MVP. So did he?

A fun look at the NBA Finals through the lens of some whacky Flickr users.

I love Ray. And he deserves to be the Finals MVP over Paul Pierce even though ESPN is in love with the long term Celtic.

Yes, the British folk think that Luol Deng is bigger than David Beckham and a household name here in the states. Oof.

A look at the NBA and the interesting trade happenings of this past season leading up to the Finals.

Nobody is perfect, but successful sports bloggers really do a fabulous job at effectively mastering the majority of the 25 traits that are listed.

Flip Saunders was fired today. Yes you are reading that correctly.

"Decisions like this are difficult to make," said big daddy Pistons Team President, Joe Dumars.

Wait..whuh? The guy that took the Detroit Pistons to 3 straight Eastern Conference Finals and went 206-91 during those 3 seasons just got fired? Yep!