Facebook.com "On my Facebook, I check my inbox and my friend requests. And then I check my notifications. I'll probably get 10 [friend requests] a day."

MySpace.com "All my friends back home have MySpace. Basically, I do the same thing on MySpace. I write back who I know. I don't write back who I don't. It might be a West Coast thing, because I didn't hear about Facebook until I got to college."

NiceKicks.com "I'm a big shoe guy, so I'll always check out the new release dates on NiceKicks.com. I always scroll down to check out the new shoes coming out, because I only wear Jordans, Nikes and SBs. I'm a big shoe guy, and all my friends are big shoes back home."

RealTalkNY.net "I'm into hip-hop and music, so I get on RealTalkNY.net to see the latest hip-hop news and what mix tape just dropped."

LVJR.com "I look at the Review-Journal. I always read something that's going on in Vegas. All my friends -- I have little friends looking up to me back home -- so I want to see how they're doing in sports. And my little cousin, she plays basketball and runs track."

ESPN.com "Just to see what's going on in the world of sports. In everything. I love sports; football, basketball, baseball. I just read some of the headlines, check out some of the videos on there."

Facebook.com "I keep in touch with people I don't get to see a lot, from high school and back in Philadelphia."

VirginiaSports.com "I look at the rest of the sports and see how they're doing."

YouTube.com "I look at funny ones. All my teammates, like Mustapha [Farrakhan], finds funny videos and shows them to me or tells me what to type in. There's a variety of stuff. Usually, we like people falling down, or something like that."

Rivals.com "Just to look at recruiting classes, who's coming into college for different teams."

» RealTimeRPI.com Nothing against Post favorite Jerry Palm and his CollegeRPI.com, but you have to be a subscriber to get the most up-to-date information. RealTimeRPI, as their name suggests, gives you RPI updates almost as soon as the games end.

» GWHoops.com The longtime home base for the small but vocal contingent of Colonials fans. Want to start a long thread? Write a post defending AD Jack Kvancz and/or GW's scheduling.

» Troy Nunes Is an Absolute Magician An entertaining repository for all things Syracuse/Big East. If you think the Internet doesn't have enough Syracuse-themed LOLCats, this is the place for you.

» 35 Seconds Sporadically updated, but if you're a fan of the very excellent Every Day Should Be Saturday college football blog, you will like this one.

» Andy Katz A rare talking head who's more "head" than "talking." Try to find a more plugged-in reporter on the national scene.

Dan Steinberg of the D.C. Sports Bog
Lets Us Peek at His Bookmarks

» The Mid-Majority The mid-major ramblings and journeys of a completely deranged chap (and sort of friend of mine) named Kyle Whelliston. Combines the joy of occasionally obscure athletic contests with the seriousness of a non-ironic Southern Illinois message board.

» BasketballProspectus.com This would have been KenPom.com, Ken Pomeroy's stats-heavy look at every team in the country, but he's in the process of moving over to the new Basketball Prospectus site, and thus so am I.

» Storming the Floor One of the earliest comprehensive fan-written college basketball blogs, mixes offbeat blog items, game/conference previews and first-hand reports.

» CAA Zone A remnant of my trip with George Mason to the Final Four, there are original stories and news feeds and message boards for every team in the CAA, which is kind of like the cool kids' version of the ACC.

» College Insider Any site that combines a coaches' fashion column with the invaluable Mid Major Top 25 is fine by me.

WHAT STAFF WRITER ALEC MACGILLIS IS READING TODAY »

Pakistan Is Big Test for Obama Wall Street Journal | Gerald Seib predicts that Barack Obama's first true test abroad may come not in Iraq, Afghanistan or Iran but in the very country against whom Obama chose to sound his most hawkish note during the campaign: Pakistan.

Blair Urges Obama to Take the Lead on World Stage Guardian | Tony Blair welcomes Obama to the world stage and urges him to take the lead on the Middle East peace process -- but then throws in some cold doses of reality as well.

What’s Going to Happen in the Minnesota Senate Recount? Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State | Andrew Gelman, co-author of a new book on political demographics, cites an article in progress by three colleagues that suggests that Al Franken may yet have the last laugh.

Right to Work Atlantic: Asymmetrical Information | Megan McArdle talks tough and gets personal about why she's against bailing out the Big Three: "There's one thing we can all agree on," she writes. "For the world to get better, things that don't work have to fail."

McCain Campaign Retrospective National Review: The Corner | Rich Lowry teases what promises to be a fulfilling National Review piece for those still hungering for some Sarah Palin postmortems, including some choice morsels from a Rick Davis interview.