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AOL Sports Launches NFL FanHouse; NCAA Football and More to Follow
Friday, September 1, 2006
12:12:00 PM EDT
Hearing T. Rex
In 2004 I began blogging here, at Mr. Irrelevant, and there, at Pigskin Bloggers. In 2005 we began podcasting a blog-driven radio show, Sports Bloggers Live. And now, in 2006, we've launched what will become the largest, finest sports blogging network ever assembled, the AOL FanHouse. There's even a press release and everything.
FanHouse began humbly earlier this week with an NFL network consisting of at least one blogger for all 32 teams as well as a few lead bloggers overseeing the whole league. The front page gets updated maybe 20 times per day with the most high-interest content and the individual team pages (case in point, Redskins FanHouse) get updated once, twice and sometimes even thrice per day. The content covers everything from Leinart having a baby to the Bachelor getting cut to Javon needling Favre and beyond.
The writers, one of whom I am not, were by and large recruited from the existing football blogging community and are exactly why this thing is so good so soon. And we've only just begun. The NCAA Football FanHouse launches this month and NBA, NCAA Hoops, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, Golf, Tennis, etc., etc. are to follow. So check out what we've got up so far and drop comments with any feedback you may have. It's very much a work in-progress, but we're extremely proud of it nonetheless.
Also, I'd like to thank all of the folks at AOL who pulled this off. It was an ambitious project with a tight timeline and limited resources, so much respect and gratitude to Neal Scarbrough, Kevin Lockland, Shawn Schrager, Emil Morrow, Robert Lepore, Elliott Thompson, Mike Diamond, Nicole Cosby, Felicia Perez and others for bringing it home. I'd also like to mention that this idea, this vision was something my old mentor and friend Bob Wooldridge and I discussed at length before he was gone, and I know he'd be proud to see it come to life.
Here's what some folks are saying about FanHouse out there on the internets:
AOL Enters the Sports Blog "Game" [Deadspin]
AOL Beefs Up Sports With Blogs [MediaPost]
AOL Blogfest [TheStreet]
AOL Launches Sports Blog Network [Bloggers Blog]
More Sports 2.0 Sites [Earthling]
AOL Launches NFL FanHouse [Too Much Pete]
AOL Launches FanHouse Blogs for Football Enthusiasts [Trading Markets]
Finally, I couldn't quite think of an image that truly represents the FanHouse (although Deadspin chose to use an old AOL disc, which is funny), but, to me, this is all about having a passion for sports and sharing it with others in a unique, entertaining way. So what better way to depict that than the Fun Bunch? Indeed...
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12:12:00 PM EDT
Hearing T. Rex
AOL Sports Launches NFL FanHouse; NCAA Football and More to Follow
In 2004 I began blogging here, at Mr. Irrelevant, and there, at Pigskin Bloggers. In 2005 we began podcasting a blog-driven radio show, Sports Bloggers Live. And now, in 2006, we've launched what will become the largest, finest sports blogging network ever assembled, the AOL FanHouse. There's even a press release and everything.
FanHouse began humbly earlier this week with an NFL network consisting of at least one blogger for all 32 teams as well as a few lead bloggers overseeing the whole league. The front page gets updated maybe 20 times per day with the most high-interest content and the individual team pages (case in point, Redskins FanHouse) get updated once, twice and sometimes even thrice per day. The content covers everything from Leinart having a baby to the Bachelor getting cut to Javon needling Favre and beyond.
The writers, one of whom I am not, were by and large recruited from the existing football blogging community and are exactly why this thing is so good so soon. And we've only just begun. The NCAA Football FanHouse launches this month and NBA, NCAA Hoops, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, Golf, Tennis, etc., etc. are to follow. So check out what we've got up so far and drop comments with any feedback you may have. It's very much a work in-progress, but we're extremely proud of it nonetheless.
Also, I'd like to thank all of the folks at AOL who pulled this off. It was an ambitious project with a tight timeline and limited resources, so much respect and gratitude to Neal Scarbrough, Kevin Lockland, Shawn Schrager, Emil Morrow, Robert Lepore, Elliott Thompson, Mike Diamond, Nicole Cosby, Felicia Perez and others for bringing it home. I'd also like to mention that this idea, this vision was something my old mentor and friend Bob Wooldridge and I discussed at length before he was gone, and I know he'd be proud to see it come to life.
Here's what some folks are saying about FanHouse out there on the internets:
AOL Enters the Sports Blog "Game" [Deadspin]
AOL Beefs Up Sports With Blogs [MediaPost]
AOL Blogfest [TheStreet]
AOL Launches Sports Blog Network [Bloggers Blog]
More Sports 2.0 Sites [Earthling]
AOL Launches NFL FanHouse [Too Much Pete]
AOL Launches FanHouse Blogs for Football Enthusiasts [Trading Markets]
Finally, I couldn't quite think of an image that truly represents the FanHouse (although Deadspin chose to use an old AOL disc, which is funny), but, to me, this is all about having a passion for sports and sharing it with others in a unique, entertaining way. So what better way to depict that than the Fun Bunch? Indeed...
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Do we get to play, too? I love promotions.
It was nice of Mike Diamond to take time off from touring to pitch in. -
As of Sept. 1, 2006 Miller Beer became an official sponsor of Illegal Alien Marches,and Protests. See Dan Stein: www/danstein.com The fact that you may hire illegal aliens for groundskeepers is one thing. But, if you hire illegal aliens and sell Miller Beer aren't you helping support a takeover of America by Mexico? The Aztlan movement, where they raised a Mexican flag over the post office in Maywood Calif. just last Saturday and our government still hasn't responded. As well, American citizens were called names, assaulted, and their vehicles vandalized. Please do not sell Miller Beer. Until, the border patrolmen that stopped a drug dealer by shooting him in the ass, are cleared and do not have to go to prison for 20 years as being speculated. This drug dealer given immunity while the assistant DA prosecuted our border patrolmen at the urging of DHS. Oh, he did have about 800 lbs. of pot, it didn't matter to the gov. Thank you if you participate in not selling Miller beer at your bars. You will be helping Americans.
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That picture has gotten me all measty eyed
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The FanHouse site is awesome. Kudos to the AOL team for pulling it together.
9/6/06 4:01 PM
After taking an extended break from the blogaverse (and mourning over the Red Sox' collapse), Premature Jock-ularity is back with the weekly predictions and extra cyber fun.
P.S.: After watching O'Reilly and co. put a target on Miller's back for sponsoring an immigration march last week (they're only trying to sell more beer, like good American capitalists!), I'm picking up a six-pack of Lite on my next packie run. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, after all.