I’d heard from LAT moles that the sports dept. was preparing an upcoming piece on sports blogs for publish, but didn’t know it was out until I visited (and looked above) the trusty, upstairs urinal at Red Rock in WeHo today:

David Wharton (Fight On!) penned the piece, which reports that sports bloggers are now being more responsible in their posting approach.

Truth is, we’ve been that way for as long as I can remember. We’ve a huge audience going back to 2003, and if we posted anything defamatory, we’d have had our a$$ sued off by now. Nothing’s changed here. Business as usual.

I did find it interesting that A.J. Daulerio of DEADSPIN was quoted, and not DSpin Editor Will Leitch. Perhaps that’s a sign he’ll get the soon-vacant editor’s gig. Will announced on Friday that he was out after next week. Hopefully that means A.J. is in. Any other hire would be a mistake by N.D. and Co.