Archive for April, 2008

RSS Feeds for Sports

Posted on April 27, 2008. Filed under: STN News | Tags: , , , , , |

After reading a post over at Mashable regarding why more people aren’t using RSS feeds we started thinking about it and they are right. RSS is marketed horribly though we guess no one actually makes money off the RSS brand so that is probably the reason. For those of you that don’t know [...]

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AOL Buys FleaFlicker

Posted on April 27, 2008. Filed under: Fantasy Sports, STN News | Tags: , , , |

AOL has purchased Fleaflicker for an undisclosed amount of money. Fleaflicker had one solo founder, Ori Schwartz, who built the site from the ground up. AOL and Ori have both been tight lipped on the purchase price but according to Roto Nation the price tag easily could of been high six figures [...]

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Open Sports Network

Posted on April 26, 2008. Filed under: Fantasy Sports, STN News | Tags: , , , , |

According to Dnxpert, Mike Levy, the founder of Sportsline.com which is now CBS.Sportsline.com is preparing to announce the Open Sports Network.  Straight from the website “At OPEN Sports, we are creating the next generation social powered sports experience that combines social media and community tools with a fantasy sports gaming marketplace and traditional sports content.”
“Our [...]

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Score OS: Open Source Fantasy Sports Management System

Posted on April 24, 2008. Filed under: Fantasy Sports, Featured Websites | Tags: , |

Website:  Score OS
Interview With:  Randy Burgess
Contact: info@scoreos.org
Is their more then one founder? If so, who are they?
The SCORE OS project was founded by Don VanDemark (Lead Developer), Randy Burgess (Lead Developer), and Jim Burgess (Business Manager). Don has worked with fantasy sports statistics retrieval and fantasy sports management systems for almost a decade. Randy has [...]

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Live Current Media pays $50 million for Exclusive Rights to Indian Cricket League

Posted on April 17, 2008. Filed under: STN News | Tags: , , , |

According to TechCrunch, Live Current Media has paid $50 million for  the exclusive right to broadcast a new Indian Cricket League’s games online.  Amazingly the Indian Premier League is on track to make $2 billion in its first year of existence.
Live Current Media owns Cricket.com so this is also a play to make Cricket.com the [...]

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Featured Blog: Gate 21 - Life, the Universe, and College Football

Posted on April 14, 2008. Filed under: Featured Blog, Sports Blogs | Tags: , |

Website: Gate 21
Interview With: Matt
When did you start your blog?
November 2007

What made you start it?
Just wanted a creative way to participate in the sports discussion and found blogging to be the easiest method to do this which allowed me the flexibility to say what I want, when I want without having to worry [...]

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Tim MacMahon: Dallas Morning News Mavericks Blog

Posted on April 11, 2008. Filed under: NBA Blogs | Tags: , , |

Website: Dallas Morning News Mavericks Blog
Interview with: Tim MacMahon
I read that you were on the beat at the University of North Texas.  Tell us your story starting how you got the job at UNT and how you landed at Dallas Morning News.
I was going to school and working for the UNT campus paper when Denton [...]

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STN’s Top 25 Sports Blogs for March

Posted on April 8, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized |

 

Rank

Blog

Sport

Compete.com Unique Visitors February

Compete.com Unique Visitors March

Alexa

1
Deadspin
All Sports
232928
188743
14995

2
With Leather
All Sports
262323
89143
21419

3
Barstool Sports
All Sports
101967
85008
27230

4
Sports By Brooks
All Sports
89539
76891
25516

5
MLB Trade Rumors
MLB
88441
70773
38969

6
The Big Lead
All Sports
59687
61887
59904

7
Busted Coverage
Football
18319
42323
94928

8
Kissing Suzy Kolber*
Football
 
 
80814

9
Awful Announcing*
All Sports
 
 
100800

10
MgoBlog*
College Football
 
 
212454

11
The 700 Level
All Sports
18573
32741
219585

12
Bad Jocks
All Sports
25675
30352
240348

13
Mets Blog
MLB
41652
28659
47146

14
Homer Derby
MLB
21005
26107
247032

15
EDSBS
College Football
19742
22714
139202

16
Mr. Irrelevant
All Sports
14958
21686
254792

17
Fan Blogs
College Football
22940
19652
323302

18
Burnt Orange Nation
College Football
10240
14953
259662

19
Football Outsiders
NFL
21567
14771
136496

20
Minor League Ball
MLB
11957
13596
138590

21
Baseball Musings
MLB
11449
13458
229790

22
Golden State of Mind
NBA
12699
12574
111052

23
Fire Joe [...]

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Yardbarker Gets 6 million in funding

Posted on April 4, 2008. Filed under: STN News, Social Network |

According to TechCrunch, Yardbarker which is basically turning into one of the largest independent sports social networks on the internet received 6 million in funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and includes investors Russ Siegelman, Ronnie Lott, Jarl Mohn, Labrador Ventures, and Baseline Ventures. 
This should give adverstisers in their network a good boost as they [...]

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Does Fox Sports Lose Journalistic Integrity by Posting Drunk Athlete Photos?

Posted on April 2, 2008. Filed under: Uncategorized |

Fox Sports decided to run with a story on the popular Matt Leinart Drunk Pictures floating around the internet that originated at The Dirty. Here is the article that Fox Sports has on the subject.
It seems like they should have just reported on the story and linked to the pictures or not put the [...]

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