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Yardbarker without Alana G?

Yardbarker without Alana G?

While we try to fathom the unfathomable, we’d still like to extend our best wishes to longtime friend of BWB, Alana Nguyen, who will now be taking up residence at SFGate.com, the Bay Area’s online home of the San Francisco Chronicle. Alana G’s Blog:  Holy crap, I work for the mainstream media now

Pepsi MAX presents Blogs with Balls Digital Tailgate at SxSW

Pepsi MAX presents Blogs with Balls Digital Tailgate at SxSW

Featuring Gary Vaynerchuk, Founder of Vayner Media Digital sports flash panel to include Darren Rovell (CNBC), Jemele Hill (ESPN.com) and Dan Shanoff (Quickish), among others WHAT: Join Blogs with Balls at the Pepsi MAX Lot for some sports talk and a whole lot of fun! SxSW keynote speaker and bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk will be doing a [...]

Bleacher Report Raises $10.5M

Bleacher Report Raises $10.5M

We’ve recently reported on high profile moves made by SB Nation, Yardbarker and Big Lead Sports (nee:  Fantasy Sports Ventures).  The latest to make a splash is BwB3 Pre-Game Party sponsor Bleacher Report. Tech Crunch reports that: Bleacher Report is going to announce a new $10.5 million round of venture capital this [Monday] morning and a lot [...]

SBJ: Yardbarker is FoxSports.com’s Difference Maker

From Eric Fisher at the SportsBusiness Journal: Yardbarker Blog Network Helps FoxSports.com to Record Traffic FoxSports.com recorded 29.04 million unique visitors in October according to comScore, a new all-time site record for the third consecutive month and a total 91% higher than October ’09. The Yardbarker network of blog sites, part of FoxSports.com’s monthly traffic roll-up, posted [...]

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 [...]

Before ESPN the Mag, There Was Blogs With Balls MyTown

Before ESPN the Mag, There Was Blogs With Balls MyTown

I think ESPN is challenging BwB to bust out our 8 hours of b-roll. Regardless, this vid brought back some fun memories of our day in the Chicago Suburbs with Joakim Noah.

Fox Sports Acquires Yardbarker

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 [...]

Alana G Follows Up on #BwB3 Ethics Panel with Dan Levy

Alana G Follows Up on #BwB3 Ethics Panel with Dan Levy

Alana G joins Dan on OnTheDL to clarify some of her much talked about positions from the event in Chicago. Listen to the episode here.

New York State of Mind

New York State of Mind

As we finish up our edits from our trips to Boston and Chicago, we’ll be site-seeing in the Big Apple tomorrow with Knicks star Danilo Gallinari. Keep an eye open at both HHR and on the BwB site, as well as our Twitter and Facebook pages. If you have any suggestions, shoot them our way.

Images from myTown-Boston Shoot with Scalabrine

Images from myTown-Boston Shoot with Scalabrine

Last week we spent the day in Boston where Celtics F/C Brian Scalabrine played our gracious host and showed us his favorite places and things to do in the city. Here are some images from the video shoot. Three primary places we hit up were the Italian restaurant Piccolo Nido on the North End (Scal’s favorite neighborhood [...]

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