Week 17 didn’t even bring out the starters for the Green Bay Packers as they hosted divisional rival Detroit Lions, but that didn’t stop one kid from doing the reverse Lambeau Leap out of the bleachers and sprinting along the frozen tundra: where he “met” Packers linebacker Brad Jones.

SportsGrid is not an academic journal and we certainly aren’t peer reviewers in the field of journalism, but a few of us from time to time enjoy reading this stuff. Every now and then, we come across or are sent studies like one we saw recently from Penn State on the forever circular debate on sports bloggers versus journalists.

The full conclusion – based on research around the coverage of a small detail regarding the 2009 group that invested in the St. Louis Rams – was that “the depth of coverage reflects the advantages professional journalists have over bloggers, including better training and more resources.” Ahead, we question the research and potentially pre-conceived notions that led to the conclusion.

Baseball has been damn good this year. But along with Roger Clemens, perhaps baseball as we knew it in the 90s currently sits in a Washington court room. And it might be put away for good.

The Pac-12 a pretty serious disadvantage to its conference counterparts: primetime means late night to most of the football watching world. So what if it skipped TV all together?

Dave Levy says Bill Simmons’ Grantland missed a chance to change the game.

Sepp Blatter hasn’t exactly been loved around some pockets of the world these last few months. Add the IOC to that list.

From now until December 30th, we’ll be going through our favorite oopsies from the year that was. So come and join us, won’t you, as we count down the Top Ten Sports Media Gaffes of the Year! Today’s gaffe: a Washington Post columnist proves he doesn’t get social media.

Seeing as how 2010 is drawing to a close, we figured we’d give you a second viewing of some of our best posts from the year that was. In this post: Ken Griffey, Jr. retired in the early days of June, and we took a moment to look back on our N64-Playing Mid-90s selves in a “What Could Have Been” race for the crown of Home Run King.

In a Huffington Post piece placed early this morning, television, stage and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin shared some of his thoughts on the recent Sarah Palin’s Alaska episode in which the former Governor shoots and carves up a pretty hefty sized moose.

Adrian Gonzalez appears to be off to Boston in a trade for a bunch of prospects that only baseball geeks would know…and SI’s Jon Heyman plays with the hearts of Red Sox fans in reporting that the deal was off and on again.