I need my fix

Every sports fan has it. That itch deep down that can’t be scratched. They always need more information and more statistics.

Sports fans used to be limited to television programs like Sportscenter but with the creation of the World Wide Web fans can get information updates every second. For football fans one of those Web sites is Profootballtalk.com and, in my opinion, it is the greatest football site on the Web.

Blogs and privately run sites like Profootballtalk.com have become increasingly more popular. Profootballtalk.com was even just rated the best sports blog on the web.

The problem is Web sites like ESPN.com and NFL.com, is those sites don’t give the true news. They only report stories that their reporters break or they leave out stories that might make organizations look bad and they don’t want to loose their press rights.

For example, a story broke about a month ago that former Green Bay Packer Brett Favre helped the Detroit Lions prepare for a game. The story was all over football sites except for ESPN.com. ESPN prides themselves on being the world wide leader in sports and they don’t have one word on the story.

ESPN claims it is because they didn’t have a credible source but the truth is Brett Favre is a big contributor to ESPN and anytime he is on ESPN their viewer ship increases tremendously.

That is why the Web is so great. It allows readers to receive information that would not have been available before. Sports blogs are growing because people want to hear the whole story, not just what mainstream media wants to give them.

Blogs have scratched that itch for sports fans. Or at least temporarily soothed it.