2007 Top 10 Most Popular Stories

1. Kaka planning future as evangelical minister (soccer)
2. NBA's Nastiest and Most Unusual Records (nba)
3. Thanksgiving Day Prayers and Football (nfl, thanksgiving)
4. Jon Kitna doesn't have to go to hell (nfl, thanksgiving)
5. Fast forward to the 5th Stage of Grief (nfl)
6. NHaiL Satan (nhl)
7. Ferocious (boxing, myspace)
8. South Park: Jesus wins! (boxing, branding, wwe)
9. Robert Guerrero Knockout Video (boxing)
10. blogs4God (blogs)

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Blogs in Plain English

lemon from Church 2.0 - the blog is reminded that there are still a number of folks who don't share appreciation of the medium "weblog" and thus recomends watching "Blogs in Plain English".
With the help of blogs, "a sports star can share news with fans". That's Church 2.0 at its best.

blogs4God

PlayersPrayers now is a proud member of blogs4God:

The 2007 Weblog Award Winners

Based on 7,831 votes Kissing Suzy Kolber has been named the Best Sports Blog.
Based on 3,461 votes What Does the Prayer Really Say? has been named the Best Religious Blog.
Congratulations to both of them!

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The 2007 Weblog Awards

Voting for The 2007 Weblog Awards is now open. You can vote once a day in each category. Polls close November 8, 2007. You may vote once every 24 hours:
Vote for the Best Sports Blog.
Vote for the Best Religious Blog.

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praying for domain names

Athlete Nightly has created a list of the Top 25 Sports Blogs by the Numbers and prays: "And for God Sakes, Kissing Suzy Kolber, 100% injury rate, and Blue Gray Sky get your own domain name."

hype it up

PlayersPrayers now is a proud member of The BallHype Community:

Journey Into the Mind of a Sports Blogger

To find out more about who sports bloggers are and what motivates them, Ballhype asked bloggers to fill out an online survey. 135 surveys were completed July 23 – 28, 2007, providing a great set of data points with which to work, especially considering sports bloggers comprise a relatively small segment of bloggers as a whole.
Like any other bloggers sports bloggers first of all are blog readers. John Karalis from RedsArmy says: "I'm online all day long... and I'm always just checking back in to see if anything has popped. Thank God for the RSS feed."
Morgan admits: "I normally write my blog while I'm at work, so I’m pretty much stealing from my boss." That's the way Basketball God's Diaries come into being.
Erin, next time I'd love to learn a little more about sports bloggers' religious affiliations as well. Thanks.

Custom Domain Transfer

This weekend PlayersPrayers will be switched to what Google calls Custom Domain. That process will take most of the weekend because all the DNS servers of the whole internet need to be updated. But it's worth the time. Next week you'll be able to reach this blog via playersprayers.com directly. Feedburner will be updated when everything else works. Sorry for the inconvenience of the days coming.

Religious Sport @ WPThemesFree

Mashable recommends WPThemesFree as it was a "neatly categorized site with a huge selection of themes".
So we focus on the categories Religious and Sport: Sport prevails by number with 7 themes found. The Religious category just shows 2 themes.