Like everyone else who only goes to ESPN.com for box scores, I didn't realize that Page 2's A.M. Jump was getting the ax after today.

If I can put my historian cap on for a second, the A.M. Jump has interesting ties to the sports blog world. It was written three days a week by the excellent DJ Gallo (read his book and his website) and two days a week by other not-really-excellent Page 2 writers, which may have attributed to it getting canned barely a year after its debut [Edit: Over the final months Gallo only wrote the feature on Fridays].  The Jump, of course, began airing one month after Dan Shanoff's contract to write the Daily Quickie wasn't renewed.  Shanoff's DQ had been a staple of the dot-com for three and a half years, and his recommendation of Deadspin turned hordes of readers on to this nook of the Web we call the sports blogosphere.

Shanoff has since joined the revolution with his eponymous blog, and it won't be long until we add Gallo to our ranks.  He's too good to waste his talents at some media giant that pays him well.