Markos Moulitsas might be best known for his unabashedly liberal blog DailyKos, but the 34-year-old is also the chief fanatic (CEO) of a sports blog network, SportsBlogs, consisting of 43 sites, writes CNET. And it makes perfect sense: "It's that intense partisanship and team loyalty that are really, really similar," Moulitsas is quoted as saying. "And blogs really appeal to partisans. It's a brilliant platform for people who are passionate about things." Having grown up in Chicago, he's a fan of the star-crossed Cubs - and that too makes perfect sense, considering the recent performances of the Democrats.

For now, Moulitsas says, SportsBlogs is an experiment. Eventually he hopes to attract advertisers and make the blogs stand on their own, but for now he's hoping the network will grow by itself.

But DailyKos is already so influential that the likes of Sen. John Kerry, Sen. Barack Obama and Rep. John Conyers have posted there.

Oddly enough, Moulitsas started out as a Reagan Republican and did a stint in the Army. "I harbored illusions of someday running for office, and I thought it would be hypocritical for me to be a hawk and never put myself in the position where I could be sent to war," he says.