By Taylor Bloom – Email Taylor is a native southern Californian sports enthusiast who will be graduating from UCLA in June with a degree in Communications. Growing up in San Diego, he has spent his life rooting against Los Angeles Sports teams. During his free time Taylor is found playing chess and ping-pong and rooting for the Lakers’ opponent. What are the first images that are conjured up in the mind of a sports fan when Michigan football is brought up? For many, it is all of the classic matchups with Ohio State that helped build one of the fiercest rivalries in college sports. For others, it is Desmond Howard returning a punt for a touchdown and “Striking the Pose” during...
By Taylor Bloom – Email Taylor is a native southern Californian sports enthusiast who will be graduating from UCLA in June with a degree in Communications. Growing up in San Diego, he has spent his life rooting against Los Angeles Sports teams. During his free time Taylor is found playing chess and ping-pong and rooting for the Lakers’ opponent. Attention all bleacher bums, face-painters, and foam-finger-wavers! The future of buying tickets for your favorite sports team is here. Heard of Groupon? Imagine a website similar to Groupon but completely focused on bringing you the best daily sports deals available. Crowd Seats, an idea built by 24-year-old Rutgers graduate, Justin Cener, is a website that offers quality seats to quality professional sports games....
By Greg Lee – Email | Twitter | Articles Gregory Lee played rugby at the University of California – Santa Barbara, earning a degree in Political Science. Currently, he is a CrossFit certified strength and conditioning coach who specializes in training contact sport athletes. He also volunteers his time as an assistant head coach for the Peninsula Green Rugby Club in Palo Alto, CA. A life long 49ers fan, he is predicting a Super Bowl victory in 2013. Before 2006 betting on sports online was as simple as having a bank account and a computer with an internet connection. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006 changed that but left enough of an opening for a new concept like FanDuel. ...
By Simon Ogus – Email | Twitter | Articles
April is always the time of eternal optimism for baseball fans. Every team is within contention and even the longest of long shots have hopes that this year will be “The Year”.
Safe to say, history suggests that maintaining fan interest is going to be a challenge for Canada’s only baseball team.
By Simon Ogus – Email | Twitter | Articles Last week, we explored how actively Major League Baseball teams use Twitter. With the NHL playoff s starting up this week, its a great ime to see how the two sports compare. The findings are a bit surprising, to say the least, considering how much more media attention is given to the MLB compared to the NHL. While there is no current NHL team with as many Twitter followers as the Phillies or Yankees, overall the league does a much better job promoting their Twitter accounts than MLB. The NHL had eleven teams with over 100k followers, while MLB had only nine. The most striking difference between the two leagues is the...
