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MeanGreen.beloblog.com. MeanGreenSports.com. And us. It’s time for a showdown.

It appears that the SBC Tournament is going to be very crowded blog territory. By my estimate, 60-75% of the audience for the afternoon session of the Men’s Tournament will be actively writing online about the event for the benefit of a North Texas audience.

The world needs some sort of online chronicle of the Sun Belt Tournament. Ideally, with questionable spelling and grammar, and a lot of inane observations.

But that niche has already been filled, Athletics Department. We’re back, and we don’t need anyone horning in on our turf.

In the end, only one website has the freedom and the courage to call Western Kentucky fans “goatfuckers” if necessary. Only one can point out that UALR’s mascot looks like a pitchman for a neon gay disco tire change company.

It isn’t Brett Vito and the DRC/DMN.  And it isn’t Rick Villarreal and the NT Athletics Department.

Don’t get us wrong… We love Brett Vito’s shock jock persona and his high intensity brand of in-your-face gonzo sports journalism. And if it weren’t for the good folks at the Athletics Department and the brave young men under their charge… We wouldn’t even be making this trip.

But love isn’t going to make us forget that what’s ours is ours. Heck, the first thing my mother used say to me after each time she got drunk and beat me was that she “loved me”. When you encroach on someone else’s turf, whether it’s basketball tournament blogging or a Mary Kay sales territory… You’re going to have to get beaten down. Love has nothing to do with it.

So consider yourselves on notice, DRC and UNT. Don’t think we’re intimidated by your fancy “press credentials” or your “insider access”. We know how to cover this event the right way. The way that the people DEMAND it be covered!

From 25 rows up in the arena, with no original information of our own.

We think they also like it if you’re writing frantically because you don’t have a power outlet and your laptop battery is about to die.

But nevermind all that! The point is… If I see one low quality digital camera photo from either of you… If I read ONE DICK JOKE… This whole situation is gonna blow up in an ugly way.

Don’t push us, people.