RCS: In an interview you did with Awful Announcing, you answered a question about the general disdain in the sports blogosphere for Colin Cowherd. "I never realized the love/hate relationship Colin has with everyone out there. Then friends started sending me articles and blogs ripping him to shreds. Great reading. This has been interesting to watch as he is forced not only to read the blogosphere, but embrace it." But in Tuesday's show, for example, while there is plentiful fan driven content via Twitter, YouTube and online polls, there weren't any explicit citations of blogs.

Upon reflection, in what ways would you say that you, Colin and SportsNation have embraced the sports blogosphere?

Beadle: I mean they are one of our main sources. It used to be, for me in particular, once I went on the thing for ESPN Radio, you kind of just go to the ESPN.com's or the CBSSports.com's. The places where writers go and file stories and articles. The blogs weren't necessarily where you'd go for story ideas.

Here it's completely different. My first stops in the morning are Deadspin and SportsByBrooks and Awful Announcing. There are ideas out there where fans and people who have very strong opinions on different sports stories have now found a forum. Sometimes they may point out something that I may already be thinking and not even have realized, or something that I completely disagree with but it definitely stands to be the focus of a great argument.

So for me and for Colin, I think he's realizing now that this sports industry is not just about guys in suits and ties who maybe once played the game. There are a lot of different opinions out there, and we're trying to get them all on there, whether it be the blog guys or the tweeting, which is really where we're getting so many ideas from.

We've had guests on where we basically take the questions from the fans. The fans want to know this about football, or want to ask Mark Schlereth about two-a-days or whatever it might be.

So for me the technology, as you made fun of before, has been very interesting. The tweeting thing, I just really started getting into it and it's kind of a fascinating thing.

8 Questions with Michelle Beadle