Happy New Year, folks. Hope you had an excellent celebration and are recovering well from whatever you did (really, I don’t want to know).
Just wanted to take a moment to welcome Houston Astros outfielder Hunter Pence to the b5media sports channel. He will be blogging for us at Inside the Ballpark, offering a first-person view of the big-league baseball experience.
I’m looking forward to following Hunter throughout the 2008 season, and I’ve even resolved to cheer for the Astros when they’re not playing my Padres. Anyway, be sure to stop by Hunter’s digs and say hello. Should be fun…

We’ve done our 2007 retrospective here at Knuckle Curve. So have a bunch of my colleagues around the b5media sports channel:

BCS Frenzy: The Five Best Sports Video Games of 2007
BCS Frenzy: The Ten Hottest Quarterbacks of 2007
Gossip on Sports: Best and Worst of Sports in 2007, Part I
Gossip on Sports: Best and Worst of Sports in 2007, Part II
Hockey Beat: Top NHL Plays of 2007
Hoops Fantasy: Top Ten Breakout Players for 2008
The Fantasy Kickoff: Top Ten Fantasy Football Surprises of 2007
The Footie: Best Soccer Goals of 2007

Be sure to stop by and say hey when you have a chance. From …read more