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Yardbarker Sells to Fox In Significant Step Forward for Sports 2.0

Awhile back I wrote about how my previous employer, Yardbarker, had partnered with Fox Sports in an ad sales and content promotion relationship. For that article I sent some questions to Yardbarker's...

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The Basketball Jones Give Insight Into Their Sucess With The Score

It was a little over a year ago I wrote about The Basketball Jones getting acquired by The Score, a Canadian Sports Television Network. Many think it was somewhat of a landmark milestone for sports...

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SB Nation Brings in Another Huge Round as Industry Continues to Evolve

Yardbarker sold, Fanball shuttered their blog network, and now SB Nation just spiked the ball in the end-zone after bringing in a very significant round of funding, reported to be $10.5 million. In...

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Bleacher Report Raises 10.5 Million, Bloggers Scratch Their Head

  Last time we checked in with Bleacher Report they were quietly making some changes with a new CEO (who I predicted as a hire) and editorial policies aimed at improving content quality. At the time...

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FanHouse Sporting News Partnership Highlights a Whirlwind Week of Action

  For now this is just a placeholder until I get some more time to writeup some of these developments. I have some emails into some people on the FanHouse Sporting News partnership and am getting some...

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One Man's Opinion on The AOL FanHouse and Sporting News Deal

A lots been made about AOL's decision to part ways with the current FanHouse direction and personnel and license/outsource the brand to the Sporting News. I've been getting a lot of inquiries about the...

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How AOL Botched Sports and Cost Writers Their Jobs

Update: Well I took a stab in the dark and the folks at SBN are saying they didn't make a play at FanHouse. At least the ghetto photoshops (you don't even want to know what I use), are going over well....

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Big Hires In Kaufman And Neyer Signal Shifting Content Strategies

My next planned blog was going to highlight the shifting content strategies of the major sports portals. It seems that after a decade of imitating ESPN, major players like CBS, NBC, AOL, Fox, and...

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Something New For Benkoo.com

  For a blog that is not updated that frequently, Benkoo.com actually does alright. Comments, traffic, links, and more importantly a good deal of people I respect visiting the blog regularly. But there...

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Koo Runnings Volume Two

A couple weeks backs I mentioned I'd try to give a periodic rundown of industry news. This is the second installment and thanks to friend @roneface, I've decided to brand this column "Koo Runnings". A...

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Pour out a Little Liquor for BallHype

Although this hasn’t been 100% confirmed at this hour, it looks like Ballhype.com along with its sister site Showhype.com as well as Daily Radar have been shuttered by their parent company, Future US....

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So When Will NBC Really Buy Pro Football Talk?

Quick note before I get started, I’ve been doing some writing on awfulannouncing.com, one of my all time favorite sports blogs and the newest addition to Bloguin. If you want in on that action, check...

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Yardbarker Sells to Fox In Significant Step Forward for Sports 2.0

Awhile back I wrote about how my previous employer, Yardbarker, had partnered with Fox Sports in an ad sales and content promotion relationship. For that article I sent some questions to Yardbarker’s...

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The Basketball Jones Give Insight Into Their Sucess With The Score

It was a little over a year ago I wrote about The Basketball Jones getting acquired by The Score, a Canadian Sports Television Network. Many think it was somewhat of a landmark milestone for sports...

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SB Nation Brings in Another Huge Round as Industry Continues to Evolve

Yardbarker sold, Fanball shuttered their blog network, and now SB Nation just spiked the ball in the end-zone after bringing in a very significant round of funding, reported to be $10.5 million. In...

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Bleacher Report Raises 10.5 Million, Bloggers Scratch Their Head

  Last time we checked in with Bleacher Report they were quietly making some changes with a new CEO (who I predicted as a hire) and editorial policies aimed at improving content quality. At the time...

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FanHouse Sporting News Partnership Highlights a Whirlwind Week of Action

  For now this is just a placeholder until I get some more time to writeup some of these developments. I have some emails into some people on the FanHouse Sporting News partnership and am getting some...

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Big Hires In Kaufman And Neyer Signal Shifting Content Strategies

My next planned blog was going to highlight the shifting content strategies of the major sports portals. It seems that after a decade of imitating ESPN, major players like CBS, NBC, AOL, Fox, and...

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Something New For Benkoo.com

  For a blog that is not updated that frequently, Benkoo.com actually does alright. Comments, traffic, links, and more importantly a good deal of people I respect visiting the blog regularly. But there...

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Koo Runnings Volume Two

A couple weeks backs I mentioned I’d try to give a periodic rundown of industry news. This is the second installment and thanks to friend @roneface, I’ve decided to brand this column “Koo Runnings”. A...

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