Comments on: Bleacher Report Gives Stage to Amateur Sports Writing

By: Yoga online

Yoga online — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:01:55 +0000

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An Offer I Can’t Refuse… « Blank Stares and Blank Pages — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:21:03 +0000

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Yardbarker Scores $6M More for “Digg For Sports” Site — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:02:36 +0000

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KillerStartups.com - BleacherReport.com - For Amateur Sports Writers — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:43:21 +0000

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By: Cesar Sosa

Cesar Sosa — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:41:26 +0000

I’m down with BR’s take on it. That dude Dave pointed it out well. Fans can’t goto the big time sports sites and talk about their team. Personally I think the team’s official forum is the best place to write something but BR is cool too. Only thing is I wouldn’t want to write something about my team and then get ragged on by the community just because they’re fans of another team. As a Raiders fan I’ll stick to the team forums but I appreciate what BR is doing.

By: JP Johns

JP Johns — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:38:21 +0000

How about Fantasy Sports Matrix? (www.fantasysportsmatrix.com)? I seem similarities in terms of the mission/vision but different execution. More focus on the fans’ personality and identity, more sports, more tools (blogs, videos, polls, article submissions).

By: SportsTwo

SportsTwo — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:00:57 +0000

For those who are interested, check out http://www.sportstwo.com for something similar but more sports forum / news related.

By: Zac

Zac — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:25:49 +0000

For Aussie fans and amateur sports writers, there’s The Roar (www.theroar.com.au).

To add to Dave’s comment below, we find there are hundreds of great sports bloggers with obscure blogger accounts who don’t get the traffic or comments their writing deserves. This is the importance of providing a platform like Bleacher – to bring together the passionate sports fans who know their sports so well, they’re no longer prepared to simply ‘consume’ content.

Sports is, after all, all about the roar of the crowd.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:08:14 +0000

A few points to mention here:

1. BR looks pretty solid. I’m fairly impressed and will certainly give it a shot. For a similar site visit MVN (Most Valuable Network) at http://www.mvn.com. At MVN, writers get a % of ad revenue on their own blogs and the end goal is to pay contributors (and yes, I do write there).

2. Yardbarker (http://www.yardbarker.com) is a much different type of property and the only comparison is that they are both related to sports. Yardbarker is more akin to Digg with an editorially maintained front page, a proprietary athlete blog network, a fledgling video property, and an aggregated sports blog ad network. (also see Ballhype at http://www.ballhype.com)

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:47:56 +0000

Good guys running a great site. Congrats to all involved!

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By: Tartino

Tartino — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:40:10 +0000

Consulted for a digitalsports without getting to deep into it and getting in trouble the CMS those guys built, it seriously trumps anything I’ve ever seen as far as advanced multi-tier content distribution and permission-ing.

http://www.digitalsports.com , check it out the national site is a little lame but when you dig into the communities it is a treasure trove of highschool content.

Obviously this post is professional sports related but it just got me thinking about their system and how they don’t ever get mentioned.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:14:24 +0000

Re: Sportingo, their concept shares many themes with Bleacher Report, but their execution is very different. Bleacher Report puts a lot more focus on the power of the community, especially with regard to the article editing process. Sportingo appears to be a closed-loop operation from the looks of it. It will be interesting to see how these differences impact content scalability.

Alan, you are also right that the difference in the sports being covered should lead to very little user overlap. Nobody blames you for your lack of Cricket passion!

By: Alan Abbey

Alan Abbey — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:37:39 +0000

There’s a site based in Israel focused on European sports that has been at this game for a year-and-a-half. I did a little work for them in the beginning, but not for a long time (they thought my American background wasn’t suited to editing content about soccer, i.e. football world-style, cricket, rugby and Formula 1 car racing. Anyway, no bitterness – really – but the last I checked, the site was doing well. Many – if not all of the features of Bleacher Report. It’s called Sportingo.com

By: Dave Nemetz

Dave Nemetz — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:27:22 +0000

The site is based on a custom CMS built in Ruby on Rails.

By: KV

KV — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:18:49 +0000

Nice layout, great concept… anyone know what technology/platform they used to create it? I’m guessing a lot of custom coding, but wondering what CMS or other software they used as a base (if any).

By: Patrick Grote

Patrick Grote — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:59:04 +0000

scratchiti … While I did not get paid for the comments, I am open to offers.

I don’t think you can compare comments with articles, right? It takes me two seconds to talk out of my rear in the comments. An article is at least ten minutes of talking out of my rear. That’s a lot of rear talking without compensation.