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November 2009
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Blogs With Balls Radio, Episode 11
This week’s Blogs With Balls Show on the JoeSportsFan Radio Network is now available. Download Episode 11 Here. We get a very interesting perspective on sports and media from author, producer, columnist, speaker and professor Dave Hollander. After going from music promotion to interviewing various legendary sports figures (whom we quiz him on in Skyped Up) [...]
Reuters Article Reflects Ongoing BwB Conversations
If you doubt that Blogs With Balls has been ahead of the curve in addressing the relationship between sports new media and marketers, Reuters sports business journalist Ben Klayman wrote a piece last week echoing much of the sentiment we are hearing from various parties at our conferences (U.S. sports to social media: show me [...]
Rob King on Bill Simmons (Audio)
From The Big Lead on Friday: Bill Simmons had a book signing in Beaverton, Oregon last night, and a reader who attended wrote in that he “overheard” ESPN’s Sports Guy telling a fan that he was “suspended from tweeting for two weeks” and that all he was allowed to tweet about was his book tour. We [...]
Jalen Rose on RedsArmy.com’s The Two Man Game
In case you missed it, BwB speaker Jalen Rose joined BwB panelist John Karalis (and co-host Chuck) on RedsArmy.com‘s The Two Man Game on Blog Talk Radio. You can check out the show over at RedsArmy.com by clicking here.
Blogs With Balls Radio, Episode 10
This week’s Blogs With Balls Show on the JoeSportsFan Radio Network is now available. Download Episode 10 Here. Today we feature our good friend John Karalis‘ RedsArmy.com as the Ballsy Blog of the Week. You may remember John as the star of our pre-BwB 1.0 Kobe spoof video: Blogs With Balls from BLOGS WITH BALLS on Vimeo. You should [...]
NFL Makes Following Players on Twitter Easier
For a few months now, the NFL has been trying to figure out how to corral its players online and develop a social media policy. Their formal stance, announced in August, allows for players to express themselves before and after games, “The NFL said Monday it will allow players to use social media networks [...]
Lessons in Blogging Anonymity
Often, sports bloggers struggle to balance credibility and anonymity. Many lead normal, everyday lives, independent of journalistic aspirations and are unapologetic about their “Joe Sports Fan” approach to sports prognostication and analysis. Many, like Midwest Sports Fans‘ Jerod Morris, argue that their writings are merely an extension of conversations amongst friends, be it on fantasy [...]
Internet-Only Sports Columnist Continues Domination
HHR’s Greg “Cadillac Mescallade” Mescall Reflects on the Recent New York Times Article on Bill Simmons (Writing a Sports Column Far From Print, and the Game), and the Writer’s Contributions to the Rise in Prominence of Sports Blogging. Note this date and time in the journalism world when the New York Times devotes a second feature [...]
Video: Captain Morgan Responds to the NFL’s Guerrilla Marketing Crackdown
This past week, the No Fun League acted quickly and decisively to crackdown on what is being deemed the first of its kind “guerrilla-style advertising campaign in an NFL end zone.” As Yahoo!’s Charles Robinson wrote yesterday, after Eagles TE Brent Celek struck the “Captain” pose in the endzone of Sunday night’s game against the Cowboys, [...]
HHR Media on BlogWorld Radio
Last week the HHR/BwB guys were on BlogWorld Radio with host Jim Turner last week. Audio is now online.