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October 2010
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BFL 2010 Week 7 Recap: Halloween Preview Edition
Each week, one of the participants in the 2010 Blogger Fantasy League is responsible for a recap. Week 7 is my turn as the deep man responsible for bringing it back. In case you hadn’t noticed from the massive apocalypse-sized orange bags of candy at your local supermarket or the spackling of fake cobwebs lining [...]
Where are the Online Sports Influencers?
When making our push to bring BwB to SxSW, we outlined our potential panel position as such: Film geeks, political buffs and gossip lovers may argue, but nowhere has the impact of blogging and podcasting been more dramatic in the past few years than the sports world. In a space dominated exclusively by those with access [...]
The Basketball Jones Give Insight Into Their Success With The Score
This article was originally posted at BenKoo.com and is being re-posted with the author’s permission. The Basketball Jones Give Insight Into Their Success With The Score It was a little over a year ago I wrote about The Basketball Jones getting acquired by The Score, a Canadian Sports Television Network. Many think it was somewhat of a [...]
NBA Launches Turnstile Check-In App
Via Catalyst Digital via The Basketball Jones via an NBA press release yesterday: NBA Digital today announced the launch of NBA Turnstile, the first professional sports multiplatform check-in application that will reward fans for attending and watching live games, and connect them to social media platforms such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitter, Facebook, and Fanvibe through the [...]
Fox Sports Acquires Yardbarker
Congratulations to our friends at Yardbarker, who today announced that they’ve been acquired by Fox Sports. Yardbarker and the YBN (Yardbarker Network) of over 800 sports blogs get the added exposure of Fox’s network (and relationship with MSN), while Fox gets a massive network of new voices to help bolster their offering and potentially make [...]
espnW: A brand for female athletes
While we’ve always promoted BwB as being “gender-blind,” we recognize that different audiences have different voices and preferences. This past week, the announcement that ESPN was launching a female-focused platform was met with much debate in the online sports community. To our surprise, much of the response took a negative tone, seemed misinformed, and was [...]
Media Bistro: The Big Lead Gets Bigger
BwB alumni Chris Russo and Jason McIntyre made news earlier this year when the The New York Times reported that Russo’s Fantasy Sports Ventures acquired McIntyre’s The Big Lead (a “cleaner version of Deadspin”) for “a figure in the low seven figures.” The duo and their respective outlets are again in the news this week. From MediaBisto.com: [...]
Don Talks #BwBSxSW and BFL on the House of Punte Podcast
Don joined BwB3 alumnus Josh Zerkle and his motley crew of cohorts on the KSK House of Punte Podcast this week to talk about the recent announcement of Blogs with Balls’s participation at the SxSW Interactive Festival in March 2011. They go on to talk about Don’s work facilitating partnerships with brands and bloggers, and the [...]