Effectively Interacting With Fans Through Social Media

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The use of social networking by professional sports teams has exploded over the last two years, and the topic has received an overwhelming amount of media attention. With an ever-increasing number of teams and athletes using social networking platforms as a tool to communicate with fans, it’s probably easier to count the number of teams … [Read more]

An Open Letter To All From Blogs With Balls and HHR Media

To the illustrious attendees of Blogs With Balls 2.0: We at HHR Media felt that by Tuesday, your BwB 2.0 hangover and double-vision would be mostly gone, and those of you (of which there were a few) who missed plane flights as a result of your excessive “conventioneering” shall we say, are home safe and … [Read more]

2009 Blogs With Balls Program At BlogWorld Expo Announced

If you didn’t know already, we are partnering with the folks at HHR Media this year to bring the most amazing sports blogging track ever to BlogWorld & New Media Expo.  The sports blogging conference is aptly named Blogs With Balls and drew more than 300 attendees to their first event a couple of months … [Read more]

Does Your Blog Have Balls? Join Us In New York City!

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I am headed to New York City on Friday, June 12, 2009 to participate in a very cool blogging conference in New York City at Stout New York.  The event is scheduled all day on June 13, 2009.  The have lots of panelists and cool topics. Of most interest to me is the “Why We … [Read more]

Shaq Tweets At Halftime

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In a word:  Wow.  We’ve been talking a lot lately about just how big social networking is getting, how huge Facebook and Twitter have become over the last few months and how they are more than likely going to continue to do so.  In case you were still a non-believer (didn’t the simple fact that … [Read more]

Sports Imitating Life

At least one Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is imitating many of his MSM brethren in his opinion of sports bloggers. Check out this video from the Bob Costas Now program where Bissinger begins a 10 minute segment personally attacking super sports blogger (and BlogWorld 2007 speaker) Will Leitch from Deadspin. Costas starts off … [Read more]

Vote for Mark Cuban on Dancing with the Stars

The show airs tonight. Mark needs our help to win this thing. Check out this excerpt from his Facebook dancing with the stars page: Mark invited you to “Dancing with the Stars – Vote for Mark and Kym – Again P4 !” today, October 15 at 8:00pm. Mark says, “Thanks again to all that voted … [Read more]

Should Olympic Atheletes be allowed to blog?

Interesting story on Brietbart the other day. Olympic Atheletes may be allowed to Blog: The International Olympic Committee said Wednesday it is considering whether to let athletes post personal diaries on the Internet _ so long as the Olympic village isn’t turned into a “Big Brother” reality TV show. Under Olympic rules, athletes, coaches and … [Read more]