Sports Center: Blog Buzz Invokes Bissinger Memories

This isn’t really football specific–but last week, Sports Center introduced Blog Buzz, a feature where they show the top articles being discussed in the blogosphere.  I had seen an article on it last week, but paid it little attention, until I saw the article above this morning.

The main reason that I didn’t pay much attention to it was because of the initial reaction to Blog Buzz in the blogosphere–which was not overly positive.  Not surprisingly, the first time the segment ran, they featured two blog comments–one from a blog on the Sun Sentinel, a Miami based newspaper, and the other was from one of ESPN’s own bloggers.  Not exactly the type of blog coverage that earns the respect of indpendent blogs.

In my reading this morning, it appears that ESPN heard the feedback, and is making changes based on it–at least according to this blog, which appears to be related to the ESPN bit somehow (although, I wonder why ESPN would be tied in with a non-branded blogspot site).  Which might make it slightly worthwhile.

But my reason for bringing it up on ZoneBlitz?  I just thought the name was funny–Blog Buzz.  It’s a fairly logical name–but ESPN also managed to name their segment in a way that ties it together with a rather infamous sports blog moment: