NBA Draft eclipses playoffs (DanShanoff.com)

You want to know what will beat the NHL Western Conference playoff game in ratings tonight (hold the Preakness jokes, please)?

The NBA Draft lottery, of course! And friend of The Buried Lead Dan Shanoff will be blogging the NBA Draft Lottery at Deadspin tonight at 8:15 PM EDT. We won’t be keeping up with it since we’ll be enjoying sitting through the Cardinals getting blanked by a lefthanded starter the Pittsburgh Pirates-St.Louis Cardinals game instead.

So click the link and follow along and we’ll have the draft recap in tomorrow’s Hitting the Snooze Bar.

Shanoff: The top 20 most influential sports bloggers (danshanoff.com)

Dan Shanoff, the maestro of the “Daily Quickie”, has compiled his list of the top 20 most influential sports bloggers on the Internet (where else would they be?). Sadly, we didn’t make that list, either.

Here’s the top five before you click on that link:

1. Will Leitch, Deadspin.com
2. Tyler Blezinski, SB Nation
3. Henry Abbot, TrueHoop
4. Dan Steinberg, D.C. Sports Blog
5. MJD, TheMightyJD