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BwB Speaker Patrick Wixted in Athens Covering Special Olympics World Games

BwB Speaker Patrick Wixted in Athens Covering Special Olympics World Games

Blogs with Balls 2 speaker Patrick Wixted is covering the Special Olympics World Games in Athens, Greece as a sports blogger and social media correspondent. Check out his blog ChangeThruSport or follow him on Twitter. Coverage focuses on the sports achievements of the athletes, and provides unique and inspiring stories, interviews, and other features surrounding the [...]

FTC Enforces Blogger Disclosure Rules: What This Means to Brands, Bloggers

FTC Enforces Blogger Disclosure Rules: What This Means to Brands, Bloggers

When I saw this come across my desk, I thought right away that it was relevant to this site.  However, I needed a much brighter mind than mine to break it down for me.  So I enlisted the help of the brightest sports blogger-lawyer I know, Texans Chick Steph Stradley.  Here’s Steph’s take…  —  —  —  —  —  –  You might [...]

Bill Walton on Social Media (Among Other Things)

Last week just prior to St. Patrick’s Day and the onset of the NCAA Tournament, Bill Walton was promoting drinking Guinness, following your dreams, and taking a day off from work to enjoy the festivities. As a former analyst and sometimes media member, we asked Bill his thoughts on social media. Off camera, he credited social media, [...]

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 [...]

GQ Profiles Deadspin’s AJ Daulerio

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 [...]

BwB Fantasy Playoff League Week 2 Preview

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 [...]

EDSBS Hits the Road with Allstate

EDSBS Hits the Road with Allstate

Whether doing it ourselves or advocating on its behalf with others, we’ve long been proponents of brands and bloggers developing original, interesting, mutually-beneficial content. We’ve also been big fans of EDSBS’s Spencer Hall – as evidenced by the fact that he’s been a mainstay on panels at all three conferences. Recently, Spencer, vis-a-vis SB Nation, teamed with Allstate and [...]

The Big Leagues: Sports Blogging as Mainstream Media Business

This article was originally posted at PressCoverage.us by Will Carroll and is being re-posted with the author and editor’s permission. In 1946, Peter Drucker invented the concept of the “company man” within his landmark book The Concept of the Corporation. His call to decentralize – or as he called it, de-federalize – and to give employees [...]

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 [...]

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