10 Jun
Posted by: Rachel Lepold in: College Basketball, General Musings
USC’s head coach, Tim Floyd, announced his retirement yesterday. There are many legitimate and relevant roads I could take a nice, Sunday drive through for this blog post, but that’s no fun. So, seeing as I have a knack for relating everything that happens in the sports world back to a team I love, I [...]
27 May
Posted by: Patrick ONeil in: Advertising, FanSection, General Musings, NBA, Social Media, Sports, Statistics, polls
The Lakers and Nuggets series is heating up, and so are their communities. The two communities are growing at a rapid rate. The Lakers community has grown by about 4% since the series began last week. This is impressive, but it pales in comparison to the more than 13% growth that the Nuggets community has [...]
19 Apr
Posted by: Bryan Bennett in: General Musings
This one comes courtesy of The Sports Economist.
Evidently Engergie Cottbus, a Bundesliga first division team, felt so bad about its poor performance after its sixth loss in seven games, that it refunded tickets to all fans that traveled to an away game. The team also issued a statement that included this line, “By refunding the [...]
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 [...]
01 Apr
Posted by: Bryan Bennett in: General Musings, Merchandising
April Fools Day tends to be big business in Silicon Valley whether it be blogs or tech companies. When we set out to do something for April Fools Day, we wanted it to be something that benefited the company but also engaged and amused our users. Luckily, we’re working with sports here so the opportunities [...]
