Jamie Mottram's Sports Blog - www.misterirrelevant.com

Last year about this time I posted my top 10 most-hated athletes and recently GQ took a horribly misguided attempt at putting together a list of their own (Bonzi Wells! Does the average fan even know what team he plays on?). Both lists got very healthy responses (Bonds! Kobe! T.O.! Etc.!), so Sports Bloggers Live thought it appropriate to air a Most-Hated Athletes show this Thursday, 3/9. It'll be an hour-long program featuring eight blogger guests covering their respective areas of interest and expertise: NFL, NCAA football, NBA, NCAA basketball, MLB, NHL, NASCAR and, finally, TV announcers.

Each guest's opinion will be forumalated by that of his blog's readership via polls and/or surveys. Here they are for your voting pleasure...

· NBA's most-hated player poll via Yay Sports (Kobe is winning with but the three-headed monster of VC, Employee No. 8 and Sprewell is mounting a challenge)

 Yay Sports is the Michael Jordan of Photoshop

· NFL's most-hated player poll via Dave's Football Blog (T.O. is pulling away as Ray Lewis and Michael Vick try to keep the pace)

· NHL's most-hated player poll via Off Wing (Todd Bertuzzi is holding on to a slight lead over Jarkko Ruutu and Darius Kasparaitis)

· NCAA basketball's most-hated person poll via Sportz Assassin (Dickie V. is out to an early lead)

· NASCAR most-hated person survey via Diecast Dude (someone has nominated "the WT fan")

· Yet to post a poll/survey? The Juice Blog (MLB), Fanblogs (NCAA football) and Deadspin (TV announcers).

More to come, for sure, and remember to check out the show at sportsbloggerslive.com once it's posted on Thursday at 5 PM ET. Meanwhile, go vote in all the polls and feel free to use the comments section here to air your grievances. Also, call the SBL studio hotline at 1-866-382-7469 to leave a voicemail for on-air playback. The angrier the better. Hooray, hate!

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