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AOL Sports Launches NFL FanHouse; NCAA and More to Come
Friday, September 1, 2006
12:50:00 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, 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 take a moment 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 friend Bob Wooldridge and Idiscussed at length before he was gone, and I know he'd be proud to see it become a reality.
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 think of an image that would represent 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 to depict that than the Fun Bunch? Indeed...
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12:50:00 PM EDT
Hearing T. Rex
AOL Sports Launches NFL FanHouse; NCAA and More to Come
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, 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 take a moment 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 friend Bob Wooldridge and Idiscussed at length before he was gone, and I know he'd be proud to see it become a reality.
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 think of an image that would represent 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 to depict that than the Fun Bunch? Indeed...
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