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Free Sports Bet produces different tools and statistics allowing you to analyze the sports betting field further. FSB has also brought a social network aspect to the site by allowing you to add friends, permitting you to share picks and talk about future bets you are thinking about making.  You can refer friends, earning money based on their play. You can track your friends play, participate in contests, and communicate through private messaging and message boards. This new social media site brings the sports world a little closer to the web 2.0 phenomena.

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Have you ever gone for a run on a beautiful day and just wondered how far you actually ran?  Mapmyrun.com is the amazing answer to this question. 

It is an user friendly website that enables you to type in your address, without creating an account, and allow you to map where you ran! 

While you are mapping where you ran or want to run the website is:

• calculating your distance
• the elevation of the terrain
• your calories burned
• BMI
• Average Speed
• Average Pace 

Not only can you map your own run, but you can create an account and track how far you have ran and what different routes you have used.  Furthermore, you can type in a location and other runners routes will appear giving you a brand new route to use!

Matt Asay accurately describes mapmyrun.com as a new social network that makes running more than an individual activity.  You can talk with other runners and make running and planning your runs an experience!

There are many reasons people use twitter such as, networking, research, marketing tool, and branding. Twitter is a place that people are searching for connection and information about certain topics, acting as a blog, social messaging site and forum all in one.

Celebrities have begun to get in on the action. Now many of them are spoofs, people acting as celebrities posting daily. For a long time someone was acting as Lance Armstrong until a couple of months ago when he took over his name.

The latest news pertaining to Lance was his post about his time trial bike being stolen.  Armstrong said, someone stole my time trial bike! APB out to the twitterati,” he told his 112,000 followers on the micro blogging site after a grueling stage on the Tour of California. He later posted a TwitPic of the missing bike pointing out that “there is only one like it in the world” and that it is “therefore hard to pawn it off”. He added that a “reward is being offered”.

I think this might be a first on twitter. Posting a lost and found post with a reward attached to it for a celebrities bike. So keep your eyes open for this one of a kind bike, who knows how much money Lance is willing to dish out.

Baseball has been considered America’s game for over a century. In recent years, the game has really been tainted by the use of anabolic steroids.  The most recent case that has littered the news has been the Alex Rodriguez case.  This week, A Rod admitted to taking steroids from 2001-2003 while he played with the Texas Rangers.  His name was 1 of 105 names that was included in an “anonymous” steroid taken during 2003. none of the names were released, but recently A Rod has been accused of taking steroids and this past week he admitted to it. Now Bud Selig, the commissioner of baseball is talking about taking away his 3 mvp awards (one of which was received in 2003), and suspending him from baseball.  

I think it is wrong for Selig to punish A Rod like this.  Although steroids were illegal in the US in ’03, they were not tested for nor deemed “illegal in baseball” during that time.  A Rod has been humiliated and admitted that he was wrong, and if Selig wants to really fix baseball he wouldn’t punish A Rod.  I think the right thing for Selig to do would be to allow a “grace period” where anyone who took steroids would be aloud to confess go without major punishment, but after that time he should get access to the Mitchel report and really clean up baseball.  I think some punishments that would be fair to people who have taken steroids weather they admit to it during the grace period or not would be to revoke permanent records. you cant take back MVP awards, but home run records and things of that nature should not have steroid users as the leaders.  I have never been a Rodriguez fan, but i really respect him for admitting, and he should not be punished for what he did although it was wrong.  I think he should be used as an example to other MLB players and rising players to know what not to do and really see the consequences.  

Baseball is loosing its appeal and many fans due to this whole steroid issue. I have always been a big baseball fan, but with all the negative press that has surrounded it for the past few years with Bonds, Clemens, McGuire, etc, and now Rodriguez, it is really hard to stay enthusiastic about the game.  I think it would be fair to expect a decline in season ticket holders and amounts of fans at games this upcoming season due to the declining economy and problems that are really engulfing major league baseball.