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January 2011
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Pearlman Goes Jay and Silent Bob on Critics
At BwB 1.0, Jeff Pearlman was a great contrasting voice at the first show as a staunch defender of journalistic integrity and the traditional news industry. In a post last week at CNN.com titled “Tracking down my online haters,” Pearlman does just what the title implies and tells about his findings. Pearlman presents a strong and entertaining [...]
Playoff Fantasy League Standings
With the Super Bowl matchup set, so too is the field vying down the homestretch for the Timex E-Altimeter in the BwB Fantasy Playoff League. Appropriately, leading the way is Steelers faithful PSAMP. Two contestants (Matt and Kevin M) have the max number of players allowed (6), while eight have the minimum (2). Click here to view rosters [...]
SxSW Panel Is Official
After weeks of deliberation, Blogs with Balls is proud to announce the lineup for our panel at SxSW, How Blogs With Balls Are Saving Sports Media. The panel is slated for March 14 during SxSW’s Interactive Festival (which runs March 11-15). In brief, the purpose and focus of the panel is to showcase across digital [...]
Who Did Sporting News Outbid to Kill FanHouse?
An interesting tidbit from Brooks’ post, Sporting News Paid AOL Millions To Drop Fanhouse: I’ve also learned that Sporting News outbid another sports content provider for the deal with AOL. In the competing offer, leveled by a prominent sports blog network, much of Fanhouse’s editorial staff would have remained intact. But AOL’s Armstrong opted to take [...]
@rudygay22: Keep Voting My Friends
This has been all over in the past week. But it really is a well done YouTube campaign (read: it’s actually funny).
GQ Profiles Deadspin’s AJ Daulerio
AJ Daulerio has been a panelist in two of our three Blogs With Balls conferences, missing only the Chicago show due to his predecessor getting hitched the same weekend. His inclusion is as much about him as it is the site he runs. It’s why we are also happy that AJ will be one of [...]
Post-Divisional Round Fantasy Playoff League Standings
Some things to chew on as you take a gander at the rosters here. No one has Sanchez. The Pats loss killed a lot of rosters No one has Starks and thus no one has the Green Bay running game Defenses are scoring huge points in some games. If a team has three Defenses left and / or can [...]
BwB Playoff Fantasy League: Saturday PM Standings
Following the Falcons’ unceremonious dismissal from the playoffs and the Ravens’ embarrassing 2nd half let-down, here are the standings going into Sunday’s Divisional Playoff games. You can view the full league rosters here. Name Points Players Remaining 1 Don P 470 10 2 John G 432 10 3 Eric G 430 10 4 Bruce Mitchell 426 7 [...]
BwB Fantasy Playoff League Week 2 Preview
Below, you can find updated results data to include the amount of players each team has remaining. At this point of the games, the amount of guys you’ve got left in the hopper is nearly as important as your current point total. The maximum amount of players a team can current have is 16. Only [...]
Breaking via SportsBusinessJournal.com: Sporting News/AOL FanHouse Merging
SPORTING NEWS AND AOL SPORTS AGREE TO CONTENT-PROVIDING ARRANGEMENT By Terry Lefton, Editor-At-Large Sporting News is making an aggressive push to become a top-10 sports website with a broad content-providing arrangement with AOL Sports. Executives were scheduled to inform staffs at both organizations of the agreement later today. The deal will create Sporting News on AOL [...]