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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 [...]
Blogs With Balls Radio Premieres on the Joe Sports Fan Radio Network
Welcome to the premier of Blogs With Balls Radio on the Joe Sports Fan Radio Network. From JSF: Over the past few weeks on our regular installment of the “JoeSportsFan Show”, we teased the fact that big news was coming down the podcasting pipeline here on JoeSportsFan.com. Yesterday, you saw the initiation of this news as our [...]
Caps Owner Ted Leonsis “Gets It”
Courtesy of BwB 1.0 Panelist Sarah Spain of Mouthpiece Sports: “Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis has championed the cause of new media, allowing prominent hockey bloggers a place in the press box alongside “mainstream media”. MOUTHPIECESPORTS personality Sarah Spain caught up with Leonsis after the NHL Awards in Vegas to talk about the contributions of [...]
Deadline to Buy Tickets Rapidly Approaching
Have you got your Blogs with Balls ticket yet? If not, you better hurry up — the cut-off for ticket sales is tomorrow (Thursday) at 7:00pm et. Don’t miss out on the sports media event of the year. Get your ticket today!
Pre-sale Tickets On Sale Now!
We’re pleased to announce that pre-sale tickets have officially gone on sale as of today, Friday, March 20. To get your hands on a Blogs with Balls gold pass for the discounted rate of $49 (plus a very small — under $2 — service fee), simply head over to blogswithballs.eventbrite.com. There are a limited number of discounted pre-sale tickets, so act fast!
Introducing the Blogs with Balls Wiki
From the moment we started dreaming up Blogs with Balls, we wanted to ensure that it could be a thoroughly collaborative effort between our team of organizers, the good people volunteering time and energy to speak/moderate panels at BwB, and those who attend and participate in the event. To that end, we’ve set-up a collaborative space — wiki.blogswithballs.com — to [...]
First Set of Speakers Announced!
As you may have noticed, we have officially posted the first set of speakers for Blogs with Balls 1.0 in NYC. They include: A.J. Daulerio, Deadspin Dan Levy, On the DL Podcast John Ness, NBC Local Jeff Pearlman, Author, SI.com Columnist Julia Roy, Undercurrent.com, JuliaRoy.com Matt Sebek, JoeSportsFan.com Dan Shanoff, DanShanoff.com Andrew Simon, WhoDeyRevolution.com Ryan Spoon, InGameNow.com Jimmy Traina, SI.com’s Extra Mustard Michael Tunison, KissingSuzyKolber.com Matt [...]
Announcing Blogs with Balls NYC
Unlike conferences of similar ilk, BWB is a social and professional networking avenue and discussion for like-minded/sports-focused bloggers, publishers, podcasters, advertisers and merchandisers. The tentative agenda & themes include: Optimizing Social Networks Ads & Monetization Joining Sports Blog Networks Garnering Earned Media Creating Viral Content Print Publishing MSM Blogging Video & Audio Podcasting and More! Each topic will feature a panel of individuals who have excelled [...]