There's an ugly, vitriolic messageboard brawl going on at Daily Kos and the USS Mariner sports blog over a $10,000 college scholarship for bloggers.

Dave Cameron—of the USS Mariner sports blog—and Kos's David Mauro are both up for the same scholarship and things have gotten nasty.

Kos bloggers have been pimping the living shit out of Mauro—there's something like 30 entries urging Kos readers to vote for him—and posting crap like this:

"It would be a crime against humanity for an excellent progressive blogger to lose to a guy who blogs about the damn Mariners"

See also: here, here and here.

Cameron's currently down 1,000 votes and it's going to take quite a bit for him to get back on top. Voting ends tomorrow (I think) so if you're a local sports fan—or just want to stick it to Kos—throw a bone to a guy who does a fantastic job of covering our soul-crushingly awful baseball team.