I mean, you need somebody like ESPN (or Deadspin), because there's actual journalism to be done relating to sports. Off the top of my head, some areas sports-re

I mean, you need somebody like ESPN (or Deadspin), because there's actual journalism to be done relating to sports. Off the top of my head, some areas sports-related topics that would never have been covered by SBNation-style sites include major sports leagues' problematic relationships to the military and local governments, the stadium swindles perpetrated by teams, the NFL's coverup of concussion research, and the monstrous scam that is the NCAA fall into the category of "deserving of real journalism". I follow a bunch of SBNation sites, but sites that specifically identify as "for fans of such-and-such a team", and that rely on unpaid volunteer writers (which a lot of SBNation absolutely does) can't be relied on to cover a lot of these topics.