Sporting Madness

I'm in Prince George at the moment for my cousin's wedding, so I probably won't have much time to write this weekend, but I appeared on the Davis Sports Deli Podcast this morning with Jon Santiago to discuss the World Cup, the NBA Finals, Kobe Bryant , LeBron James and Blogs With Balls 3.0 in Chicago. Check out the episode here !

The Blogs With Balls III conference took place last weekend at Wrigley Field. I was there, and I quite enjoyed it; there was a lot of good discussion around several key topics in sports media. Over the next few days, I'm going to be presenting recaps and analysis of all the different panels. Here's the first one: Panel: Going Local: Charting The Evolution of Local Sports Media In The Digital Age Panelists: Jim Bankoff of SB Nation , Enrico Campitelli of The 700 Level , TK Gore of Comcast Sportsnet Chicago , Jon Greenberg of ESPN Chicago and Dave Nemetz of Bleacher Report . Moderator: ESPN's Amy K. Nelson . Picture: Theme Song (unofficial): Tom Petty - Learning To Fly I chose this because it reflected both the small-scale beginnings of many of the panelists and their current lofty status (Bankoff and Nemetz both run massive sports networks, while Campitelli's site was recently acquired by Comcast and Gore and Greenberg are both prominent in the ...

"It's 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." "Hit it." - The Blues Brothers I'm in Chicago for the third Blogs With Balls convention, which starts in just a couple of hours with a kick-off party. If it's anything like the last one I covered in Vegas last fall , it should be a great time. The real action is tomorrow, and there's a great lineup of panelists . You can catch all the action via Justin.tv ; I'll also be tweeting during the proceedings and writing some recap posts here. It should be a great weekend; make sure to check back here for my coverage of it!