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Pitchers And Catchers Report, Travis Leslie's Dunk, And The Most Overrated Conference: Around The Perimeter

Braves: Spring training! Atlanta Braves spring training! We have extensive Braves spring training coverage here, and be sure to join Talking Chop for much, much more. Today they're beginning another exciting annual series of Making The Team Meter posts, a weekly guide to which on-the-bubble pitchers and batters have the best chances of securing roster spots.

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Falcons: Hope you don't get tired of Arthur Blank praise. Cincy Jungle, our Cincinnati Bengals community, wishes their team would attempt the Atlanta Falcons model. For decades, no fanbase in any sport would look up to the Falcons in any regard, so it's amazing to see once again how far Blank has brought this team.

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Also, a pair of must-reads on the impending NFL lockout: Braves & Birds' breakdown of the media's pathetic lockout coverage, and the Mises Economic Blog's distillation of the entire thing into a single infuriating sentence.

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Dawgs: Travis Leslie is good at dunking:

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Also, guess which college basketball conference is the most overrated. OK, obviously the Big East. But which one is the most accurately rated? Yep, the SEC.

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This has been your daily-ish circling of the Atlanta sports blogosphere and more. If you have anything that belongs here next time, holler. To ride with us again tomorrow or so, follow @SBNAtlanta on Twitter.

Photographs by coka_koehler used in background montage under Creative Commons. Thank you.