August 2007
26 posts
Joel Price: 16 minutes to game time
Joel Price: 16 minutes to game time (via Twitter / Joel Price)
Joel Price: pre-game meal at the ritz-carlton, now...
Joel Price: pre-game meal at the ritz-carlton, now off to the stadium (via Twitter / Joel Price)
Joel Price: nearing the Cards new stadium... Looks...
Joel Price: nearing the Cards new stadium… Looks like a spaceship (via Twitter / Joel Price)
Joel Price: landed in AZ no to hot.
Joel Price: landed in AZ no to hot. (via Twitter / Joel Price)
Joel Price: so nice to have TSA at the Chargers...
Joel Price: so nice to have TSA at the Chargers office for check in. Makes going to the airport so easy. (via Twitter / Joel Price)
Joel Price: on the bus to airport... then off to...
Joel Price: on the bus to airport… then off to HOT az (via Twitter / Joel Price)
CBS SportsLine.com becomes CBSSports.com
CBS SportsLine.com announced it has changed its name to CBSSports.com. Read the full press release. “With the singular tie to the CBS Sports brand, we now have the ability to connect with more fans than ever, bringing loyal users of the SportsLine service together with new consumers, whether they are in front of a television, on their computer or on the go with their mobile device,” said Jason...
User generated video coming to MNF
ESPN’s Monday Night Football is jumping into the fan-generated (user generated) video areana. Two fan testimonials will be aired each week as they predict why their team will win. Nice way to merge the old with the new. Read the complete press release here. Fans can upload video here.
(via DigiSpo by Joel Price)
NFL.com rich with new features
The new NFL site is only a week old but it has depth that the former site never had. Following is look at some of the content on the new NFL.com: Exclusive Video and Audio Exclusive NFL Game Highlights — Within minutes of each game’s finish, NFL fans will be able to catch up on all the action with a video recap of each NFL game.
Exclusive NFL Game Previews — Video previews of all 256...
Kangaroo Media expands NFL deal
Kangaroo Media expands NFL deal “The expansion of NFL Sunday Ticket In-Stadium to four teams points to the great potential of this technology within the NFL,” Kangaroo chief executive Marc Arseneau said. “Out goal is to transform the fan experience, and there are few better ways to do that than bringing DIRECTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket to every fan at the stadium through Kangaroo TV technology.”
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ESPN.com launches Fantasy Football 101
The instructional mini web site designed to help first-time (vets might event learn a thing or two) Fantasy Football players to successfully draft and manage their fantasy football teams. Hosted by ESPN TV personality Trey Wingo, features video clips of ESPN’s fantasy sports coverage broken down by category including pre-draft, value players, set your rankings and survey the field. I like this...
PGA.com sees record traffic
PGA.com, the official site of the PGA of America, along with Turner Sports Interactive is seeing record-breaking traffic for the site.
PGA.com saw more than two million total streams, a 116 per cent increase over last year, which already surpasses the top month in site history, and also received record-breaking traffic during the four days of championship coverage with an increase of 233 per cent...
Free MLB.com icon for BlackBerry
Image via Toronto Techie
MLB issued a press release announcing the free desktop icon for BlackBerry smartphones which will bring you directly to their mobile WAP site with 1 click. The official MLB Mobile blog gives a few good tips for BlackBerry users. The MLB.com icon can be downloaded by visiting http://wap.mlb.com/blackberry from any BlackBerry smartphone.
Unfortunately, the icon is about...
NFL games available online in U.S.
Big news for DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers can now access games online. Fans who subscribe to the “SuperFan” option can watch the all NFL games via DirecTV’s online SuperCast, the first time the NFL has offered up its games via the Internet legally within the United States. DirectTV is paying the NFL 3.5 billion for exclusive rights to carry games on the NFL Sunday Ticket package through...
Saints launches new site
This is a little late but New Orleans Saints launches a new site before training camp. Developed by Seattle-based Cypress Consulting who also is the developer for Seattle Seahawks. Read the press release.
(via DigiSpo by Joel Price)
NFL updates website with new look
If you missed the sneak peek last Saturday, don’t worry, the new look of the NFL.com is now official. The video player is rather impressive. Check it out.
(via DigiSpo by Joel Price)
NFL 2.0 - NFL.com beta site unveiled
The Notional Football League’s web team has been busy working on the new look and new features for NFL.com, and now it’s time for fans to kick the tires. This is a huge step forward for the NFL marking the turning point between depending on partners and now having full control. I think this is a move long overdue. It will take time for the site to get to the level the NFL wants but a remarkable...
ESPN to relaunch its all-video site ESPN360
ESPN is planning to relaunch its all-video site, ESPN360 next month in order to shift its focus more towards live sports events with the aim of eventually providing 24 hour coverage, according to the Wall Street Journal. (WSJ subscription required)
(via DigiSpo by Joel Price)
NFL.com sets beta launch
NFL.com Beta The NFL will show off it’s first major redesign since 1999. The new NFL.com beta site will be available to the public from 2-10 PM (PST) on Saturday, August 11, 2007. Back in October 2006 the NFL announced the league would fully operate NFL.com, including the development of the technology, infrastructure and content. The former site has been produced and hosted since 2001 by...
Joel Price: congrats to Castfire for getting the...
Joel Price: congrats to Castfire for getting the new WebbAlert web show! (via Twitter / Joel Price)
SI.com’s acquisition open eyes to social media
Following Sports Illustrated’s successful integration of FanNation.com with SI.com, parent company Time Inc., is getting into online social networking with some of its weekly magazine sites. Time Inc. Weeklies to Embrace Social Networking
Since Sports Illustrated bought upstart site FanNation.com earlier this year, the site’s number of unique users has climbed to 4 million, said Paul...
NBC launches Sunday Night Football site
Last week NBC set in motion a major promotional campaign for its second season of Sunday Night Football telecasts, part of the campaign is an updated SundayNightisFootballNight.com. This site is a great example on how to promote the NFL. Maybe it’s the large video intro that has me so impressed. Certainly the video would get old if I visited the site everyday but the first impression was...
Ballhype study examines sports bloggers
A few weeks back Ballhype asked sports bloggers to fill out an online survey and they promised to share its results with the world for all of us to understand a bit more about sport bloggers. The results are very interesting. 31% state they started their blog on a whim, 26% to make their opinion heard, 21% because they found mainstream media coverage lacking in some way, and less than 1% to make...
New sports networking launched
LoveofSports.com launched earlier this week is looking to become the top sports Social Networking web site.
“I’m confident we will be the Facebook or MySpace of sports,” he said.
LOS is involved in social networking and partner searches, but its main objective is to bring people together who have a common interest in a particular sport.
Doherty calls it an online sports club where...
StubHub enters a five deal with MLB
Major League Baseball has entered into a five-year revenue share deal with StubHub in the resale of tickets. With the new deal team sites and MLB.com will direct fans who want to sell their tickets or buy tickets from other fans to Stubhub.com.
(via DigiSpo by Joel Price)
Donovan McNabb starts barking
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb now has a blog on Yardbarker.com a sports blogging website that allows users to rate the quality of each post. Yardbarker has been aggressive with getting athletes to blog using their site. Before the NBA Draft Greg Oden started blogging for the site but has only posted a handful of post since being drafted. When he does post it’s normally pretty...