STN Top 25 Sports Blogs
| Rank | Blog | Sport | Google Ad Planner June Uniques | Alexa |
| 1 | Deadspin | All Sports | 320,000 | 5,745 |
| 2 | With Leather* | All Sports | 180,000 | 11,198 |
| 3 | Barstool Sports | All Sports | 120,000 | 15,873 |
| 4 | The Big Lead | All Sports | 110,000 | 27,229 |
| 5 | MLB Trade Rumors | MLB | 98,000 | 23,890 |
| 6 | Sports By Brooks | All Sports | 95,000 | 18,082 |
| 7 | Mets Blog | MLB | 61,000 | 24,616 |
| 8 | Awful Announcing* | All Sports | 59,490 | |
| 9 | Kissing Suzy Kolber* | Football | 43,450 | |
| 10 | The Love of Sports | All Sports | 51,000 | 179,477 |
| 11 | EDSBS | College Football | 44,000 | 101,189 |
| 12 | Fire Joe Morgan | MLB | 39,000 | 63,881 |
| 13 | Mix Makers | All Sports | 35,000 | 16,816 |
| 14 | Hardball Times | Baseball | 34,000 | 55,875 |
| 15 | The Offside | Soccer | 32,000 | 24,630 |
| 16 | The Angry T | All Sports | 31,000 | 55,875 |
| 17 | Cuzoogle | All Sports | 25,000 | 116,968 |
| 18 | USS Mariner | MLB | 24,000 | 67,672 |
| 19 | MGOBlog* | College Football | 149,411 | |
| 20 | Bad Jocks | All Sports | 23,000 | 158,427 |
| 21 | Sports Crackle Pop | All Sports | 23,000 | 595,559 |
| 22 | The 700 Level | All Sports | 20,000 | 120,418 |
| 23 | Minor League Ball | MLB | 20,000 | 130,137 |
| 24 | Can’t Stop The Bleeding | All Sports | 19,000 | 220,962 |
| 25 | Homer Derby | MLB | 18,000 | 160,319 |
*With Leather is now hosted at withleather.uproxx.com but the Alexa numbers are not accurate yet so we are still using their .com unique numbers. Kissing Suzy Kolber is hosted at kissmesuzy.blogspot.com, Kissingsuzykolber.net, and now kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com. Most of their traffic goes to the blogspot address so we used that address for stats. The same is true for Awful Announcing. Mgoblog is only at Mgoblog.blogspot.com
For those of you who have visited our rankings before you will notice we are no longer using Compete.com. Thanks to the newly released Google Ad Planner, we bring you new and improved rankings here at SportsTechNow. Google Ad Planner is actually built for Media Planners but they also rank sites and give unique visitors for the previous month. Our numbers will be based off of US numbers. Their system should outperform Compete as Google can lean on their Toolbar and Google Analytics stats for site usage numbers. We still need to use Alexa for sites that are tracked at a blogspot domain or now in the case of With Leather and Kissing Suzy Kolber at the uproxx.com domain.
New to the list this month are MixMakers.net, TheAngryT.com, and SportsCracklePop.com. The amazing thing about SportsCracklePop is that they have only been around since April.
You can view why we pick these sites and not others at the bottom of April’s Top 25 Sports Blogs.
I reading back over your criteria for making the list, you call Bugs & Cranks a “blog network” and state that as the reason it’s not included.
Could you explain this to me, as I think B&C should easily crack the Top 25?
E. Spencer Kyte
July 16, 2008
Yeah, that should totally say “In reading” not “I reading”…
Man I’m a tool!
E. Spencer Kyte
July 16, 2008
Spencer,
Bugs and Cranks is basically a network of blogs with a network of writers. All the blogs above have no more then a few writers and most of them only have 1.
sportstechnow
July 16, 2008
So because our idea is to have a writer for every team (or as close as we can), we don’t count?
That’s a little silly, isn’t it?
E. Spencer Kyte
July 16, 2008
Alexa is a joke. Compete is too. Quantcast is better than all of them, including Google.
moondogleft
July 17, 2008
moondog,
Thanks for your comment. I hadn’t been familiar with quantcast before. We will definitely be working them into the rankings for next month
sportstechnow
July 17, 2008
You’re welcome. I’m going to answer the questions and send you my blog info. I’d like to be listed here.
Quantcast is the bomb - I wrote an article about them yesterday with links to my stats and two other sites. They provide a wealth of information that the others can’t compete with.
moondogleft
July 17, 2008