Pah, I've been shooting NEFs since day one. Stuff like Aperture and Lightroom make the difference between raw and jpg negligible. I rarely need the speed of jpg, and I shoot a fair amount of sports, granted I don't usually shoot 8-9 fps (more like 6), but even so.
On the sRaw thing ... what's the point? If you're that worried about file size, just shoot jpg L-fine. You'll probably end up with better results using the full resolution.
I shoot 14-bit, lossless compressed NEFs.
A note on compression, if you have the option for lossless, use it. The camera just reorganizes the data so the most common values have the lowest number. Cuts down on file size with absolutely no effect on quality.
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