My dreams ended before I even had a chance...

When I was in junior high, I wanted to make a statement and achieve something that no other girl had ever accomplished. So, instead of joining the volleyball squad, I played football.

By that, I don't mean a "powder puff league," or touch or flag football – I'm talking knock-you-on-your-ass full contact football. I loved it so much as a seventh grader, I even played again my eighth grade year.

In college I entered the field of journalism to pursue my love for sports and writing, hoping to join the ranks of Linda Cohn and Robin Roberts. I got my feet wet as an assistant for The Wichita Eagle sports desk. I also gained much experience as a sports beat reporter for The Sunflower. I saw my dreams slowly taking place. I couldn't have been happier.

But through the last couple of years, I have seen the evolution (revolution?) unfolding. I realized I could be more than just a rambling talking head on TV, giving my daily insight to the highlights of the day. I began to understand that most sports reporters' opinions were like butt holes – every body has one. Everybody says it, writes it, and has poll results that confirm it.

Jeff Jarvis took a crack at this question last year: If you think about it logically, sports are most vulnerable to online. They require up-to-the-minute, highly targeted, multimedia, interactive reaction. Sports scores are a commodity. Beat reporters are expensive and useless in today's world of live streaming.

Today, anybody can be a columnist. Sportingo.com is a community and news forum for sports fans by sports fans. People who know sports best can submit their opinions and articles to be edited and published by professionals. The site currently focuses on European soccer and tennis, but the concept is a standard for sports journalism.

Sports bloggers are leading a movement against the ho-hum nature of traditional journalism. But if they can do it in their own free time, with as much passion as an athlete during the game, then why is it such a bad thing for them to say the things that need to be said, yet a professional journalist could be fired for?