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Clay Travis

There has been a lot of twitter chatter the last week or so over Clay Travis' new website "Outkicking the Coverage." If you don't know Clay Travis he is a Tennessee sports guy who does a radio show on sports in the south, mainly Tennessee related.  He also wrote a couple books about Tennessee football. I can't call Clay a reporter because he doesn't actually report any news; you can't call him just a smart-ass like me because not all his stuff is funny. He is a new breed of  blogger/reporter/smart-ass/homer that has been created by the interwebs.

As you all know I am very positive on bloggers, seeing as though I am one and all. I think it's great that anyone can now express their opinions and ideas and have them read by the masses.  If people like what you have to say it will catch on and you will be a hit, if they don't then it will fizzle. Blogging has made reporting on sports a capitalistic venture that anyone can get involved in. The problem is when you have guys like Clay Travis or Brooks from Sports by Brooks. These guys are actually making their living off blogging about college sports. When you are making your living off the site then you have to have site hits. It becomes not about sharing cool or interesting thoughts about sports, it's about writing something that will draw folks in.