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To kick off the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs in style, the NHL is hosting a variety of Tweetups around the US and Canada over the next several days beginning tonight.  According to Mashable, the complete list of cities are as follows:
Starting at 7pm EST on April 15th, NHL Tweetup will be taking place in Anaheim, [...]

According to Hitwise, the top 10 sports websites as measured by market share of US visits is as follows:

It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the top three are ESPN, Yahoo Sports, and CBSSports.  And if you factored in all of the sub-domains, Yahoo would likely win the overall battle.  Nielsen also released March 2009 [...]

The success of CBSSports.com’s live streaming of every NCAA Tournament game has been well documented.  They released their final tally and the results are impressive:

8.6 million total hours of video streaming - 75% increase over 2008
7.52 million visitors - 58% increase over 2008
2.8 million clicks of the BOSS button

The surge in online traffic is certainly [...]

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new tabbed RSS widget today.  The widget is intended to enable blog partners to present their RSS feeds in widget form in a much more usable way.  Bloguin, a sports-focused blog network, is our launch partner for the widget and you can get a good look at [...]

The North Carolina Tar Heels, the largest college basketball fan community for FanSection, rolled over Michigan State on Monday night 89-72 to win the 2009 National Championship.  Unfortunately for CBS, the blowout made the game the lowest rated final in ever.
Overall, 17.6 million viewers tuned in and the broadcast achieved a 10.8 household rating - [...]