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Just When We'd Given Up On Athletes' Blog Thing
Posted January 31st ago via Sports By Brooks
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When it comes to books *authored* by athletes, we've always been dubious of ghostwriters. That is, until we started attempting to read edit-free blogs written by athletes. We find most of them to be spectacularly narcisstic and boring, with a few notable exceptions (Gil Arenas is the best read).

Yardbarker.com is a sports community that's all-in when it comes to athletes' blogs (Baron Davis, Donovan McNabb, Greg Oden). One of the first big names landed by the site was Oden. And from what we've read the past year, his blog is the best on the site.

Oden starting writing when he was just out of college, so he still had the candor that is absent from most NBA players caught up in the league's marketing complex. He also suffered a catastrophic injury, which knocked his ego down a peg or two (not that he had much of one to begin with).

Anyway, Oden's latest blog entry compelled us to link to it. It's about the circumstances surrounding the death of his best friend, and how he is coping. It's worth a read, and his blog is worth a bookmark.

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