I am a Total Sports Geek...

...and I am not afraid to admit it.  Here are some sports sites I check on a regular basis:

• The best sports site online is Baseball Prospectus.  Their book is well worth the money each spring, but the website ups the ante with daily columns on baseball and Chris Kahrl's regularly posted "Transaction Analysis" reports.
• Other places to go for quality baseball analysis on the Web are Rob Neyer's column on ESPN.com and the Baseball Primer, which posts various links to baseball news and then some interesting discussion on each one.
• If you have never read Bill Simmons, the Boston Sports Guy, what on earth is wrong with you?  Ah, I pine for those days when Bill had his own site and posted something every day.  Now that he is writing for ABC's new Jimmy Kimmel show, we have to beg for crumbs on ESPN.com once a week.
• Bill's old site used to link to the best Boston sports articles each day.  Now that has been taken over by a new site, Boston Sports Media Watch, written by Bruce Allen.  He also has commentary on different goings-on in the local media, what they're discussing on local sports talk show, and a special section on the history and biases of each of the radio and newspaper guys.
• The equivalent of Baseball Prospectus for basketball is alleyoop.com, written by John Hollander.  While there is a huge movement related to stat analysis of baseball, John is basically by himself when it comes to basketball.  Interesting reading, and he has a sense of humor.  During the NBA season, Hollander updates Mondays and Thursdays -- in the offseason, it is about once a week.
• I get all the Pats information I need from local sources, but I keep up with my favorite baseball team thanks to the Cub Reporter blog.

Here are some great sites for sports nostalgia:

• Remember the ABA
• The USFL page 
• The Helmet Project
• The Logo Server, containing current and historical logos for sports teams, major league and minor league, in everything from baseball, basketball, and football to rugby and lacrosse.

Oh, and Politics Also

 Here are some of the many political and opinion sites I read regularly:

• Glenn Reynolds' Instapundit -- the dean of blogs
• Steve Den Beste's USS Clueless -- the best columnist not writing a newspaper column
• Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs -- focuses on the war against radical Islam
• Andrew Sullivan -- the iconoclastic center-right commentator
• Joshua Micah Marshall -- the iconoclastic center-left commentator
• Slate -- the best Internet magazine, even though they will never print my submissions
• Chris Mooney, my ex-roommate, a skeptical liberal
• Jacob Levy, my former WBRU co-worker, a libertarian and political philosophy professor

I'm a centrist who has to read everything, and I always check out the four big opinion magazines across the spectrum.  These all have good online content:

• From the left, The American Prospect
• From the center-left, The New Republic
• From the center-right (but increasingly the just plain right), The Weekly Standard
• From the right, The National Review

Some smaller blogs I also read:

• The Baseball Crank, who writes about both sports and politics
• The infamous Bleat by James Lileks
• The libertarian Tacitus
• The somewhat right-wing Jewish-oriented Kesher Talk
• Harvard student, and thoughtful liberal, Matthew Yglesias