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Thanks to the Stanley Cup playoffs, we are once again seeing tremendous growth and increased engagement during the post season.   Since the playoffs began in mid-April, the Red Wings and the Penguins communities have grown by a combined 200k+ users.   We have also seen many existing users return to the communities to support their team [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The greatest unofficial US sports holiday is almost here.  Selection Sunday is only two days away and the start of the 2009 NCAA Tournament starts in under a week.  This is quite possibly my favorite 3 week period of the year - especially next weekend.  Even if you’re not a huge sports fan, there is [...]

Rachel Lepold, @rlepold, FanSection sports community manager, saw this tweet today from Arsenal fan Simon Miller - aka @goonjm.  Evidently Simon is a big fan of  the never-ending trivia game which is one of the most popular features in our sports and TV applications.

We love when users use the word “addicting”, and “damn addicting” is [...]