Could it be that the media has "misquoted" an athlete one too many times? Or is it that the newspapers really aren't interested in what the athlete WANT to talk about? Regardless, more and more athletes are getting behind the computer and letting their voices be heard. Brain Chu of the San Antonio Express News spoke to a number of athletes who blog, including New York Knicks Jamal Crawford who took the time out to respond to a story written by Marc Berman of the New York Post where he wrote that Crawford doesn't want embattled Knicks player Stephon Marbury around, which Crawford said isn't true.

"So after practice on Wednesday I planned on asking Berman about this blog or whatever he wrote," Crawford wrote back in October. "In typical Berman fashion after he writes something like this, he doesn't come the next day...LOL. And Berman is actually a good guy, but I guess he needed something to write."

In the post, Crawford talks of finally confronting Berman and basically pulls his card and shares it with the readership.

"I would've had that built-up frustration," Crawford told Chu. "It was fun to get it off my chest."

Other athletes like Dwyane Wade, Donovan McNabb, Greg Oden, Tyson Chandler and countless others at least post to their personal blogs a few times a month. Some of them even keep video blogs, like Wade when he was in China for the Olympics and Chandler when he went to Europe for the preseason.

"I got a lot of great feedback, and even people in my family were actually following it too," Wade told Chu of his video blog. "It takes the NBA to another level, and I think it gives me more exposure as well."

"I want fans to experience like, 'Man, they just landed, and I just saw him a second ago boarding a plane and now he's got a post up,'" Chandler added. "That's the backstage pass fans don't get to see (otherwise)."

Of course, Gilbert Arenas was the NBA player who started making headlines on his blog. Everything from announcing his third surgery on his knee to the way he proposed to his girlfriend was done on his blog BEFORE it got to the media.

"You're hearing it straight from the athlete and not from a reporter who's ciphering through it and reading too much into it," Arenas said.

Here's a list of some popular athlete blogs:

Gilbert Arenas
Jamal Crawford
Greg Oden
Donovan McNabb
Tyson Chandler
Dwyane Wade
Shawn Marion
Manu Ginobli
Tony Parker
Serena Williams