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October 20, 2010: FOX Sports Acquires Yardbarker

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JEFF SAYS:
FOX Sports Acquires Yardbarker

Every once in a while we use this space to interrupt your normally scheduled Morning Bark and inform you of big news in Yardbarker-land. And yesterday's news was definitely BIG. Read Yardbarker CEO Pete Vlastelica's take on what this acquisition means for Yardbarker, FOX Sports and all of your favorite blogs.

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A Big Step For The Independent Sports Blogosphere

Yardbarker has had a great relationship with FOX Sports that started two years ago as a low-key content-sharing partnership and evolved last year into a more formal editorial and sales collaboration...

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Mark Teixeira Done For The Postseason? (Video)
PRO Rumors

Here's video of New York Yankees' first baseman Mark Teixeira injuring his hamstring on a ground out to first base...'barring a miracle' Teixeira is done for the postseason...

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Ochocinco Plans Touchdown Prop Celebration
Larry Brown Sports

...Chad tweeted on Tuesday: 'The old Chad is back, i sent the entire Falcon defense a nice gift and i have a special prop in place in each endzone for sunday...

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Vancouver Canuck Rick Rypien Shoves Fan (Video)
The Last Angry Fan

Down 5-1 to the Minnesota Wild, Canucks enforcer Rick Rypien, in a vain attempt to fire up his teammates, tried to goad Minnesota's Brad Staubitz into yet another fight. Only this time, the officials intervened immediately and before the scrap could get going, separated the pair...

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Want To Reduce Concussions? Ditch The Helmets
Deuce of Davenport

...The foolish thing about all this is that the easiest way the NFL can actually prevent helmet to helmet hits is to do one very simple, yet controversial thing...get rid of the helmets. That's right, get rid of em. Ditch em. Forget about em. There have been a number of studies that show that the helmets themselves are probably the cause of a lot of these injuries...

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Evan Turner: The Next Adam Morrison?
The Rookie Wall

Coming into the draft there wasn't a whole lot of argument over who should go number one. Nearly everyone thought it should be John Wall, the electric freshman out of Kentucky, but when there was another name put forward it was almost always Evan Turner. Turner was the Naismith Player of the Year, playing point-forward for the Buckeyes all season and creating plenty of highlights along the way...

4
Kazakhstan Making Unauthorized Borat Sequel. No, Really. (Video)
Film Drunk

Kazakhstan has a unique problem: before Borat, no one knew it existed. After Borat, everyone has heard of it...

3
Daughter Of Randy Moss Is Receiving Scolarship Offers
Ted Williams Head

Randy Moss was a very good basketball player and was named West Virginia Player of the Year in basketball in 1993 and 1994. Moss passed on his basketball attributes to his daughter...

2
Keion Bell Provides The Best Dunk Over 7 People You'll See Today (Video)
Ted Williams Head

Let me introduce you to Keion Bell, the best college dunk artist that you've never heard of...

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Meet NBA Rookie Xavier Henry (Video)

Episode 1: Meet Xavier Henry, the standout guard from Kansas who was drafted 12th overall by the Memphis Grizzlies. Xavier spent the summer training in his hometown of Oklahoma City with his brother C.J...

 
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