For most sports fans, watching a game has always and will forever be a social event. NFL Sunday, March Madness, the Olympics, and anything involving the playoffs are much anticipated and social-centered affairs. While smartphones and Twitter in particular have connected sports fans around the world while watching games, one social network is attempting to streamline fandom, hoping it will occur exclusively within their online world. Read more
Being an American, I tend to have a limited view of European football, or “soccer”. Nevertheless, the rest of the world has a much boarder view of football, as “The World Game,” and it reflects in mobile and social media usage.
What I would argue is the greatest asset of twitter is its ability to unite people all around the world who experiencing the same thing at the exact same time. Twitter is most exciting during the Super Bowl, the Oscars, and certainly would have been ever so entertaining during the O.J. Simpson car chase down the Los Angeles freeway had it been around then. Read more
In a clever effort to get a better chance of attracting the best high school athletes from around the United States, college recruiters are turning to a new social network to capture.Connecting athletes and coaches, BeRecruited.com is a social network for players of all different sports and both major and minor post-secondary schools. Read more
Though it certainly seems like most if not all of the 2011 NBA Season will be put on hold, the Phoenix Suns are gearing up for a new social media marketing initiative, one incorporating every major social network as well as the introduction of a very new reporting position. Read more
The strangeness of Twitter is that there are so many people who will never learn from those who have made missteps on the medium before them. Athletes continue to use Twitter to connect with fans and let out their feelings, but so many of them still bring unnecessary attention to themselves or their teams, stir up controversy, and simply write dumb things. Here are the latest in the sad, continuing saga of unwise athlete tweets.
Fantasy sports fanatics, you’re in for a treat. Fantasy sports just got a social makeover with the launch of Gamingo’s brand new Social Fantasy Sports engine.
The NFL season has yet to begin, and last year’s best running back has already stumbled out of the gate. Feeling the pressure of being a leader on team with high expectations and one of the top fantasy football players, Arian Foster tried, and failed, in an attempt to relieve people of their worries about his hamstring injury. Read more
A novel and very positive social network has recently launched, and though it is aimed at golfers, it’s not only necessarily about golf. It is indeed used to connect those devotees of the nine-iron, new and old, to share advice, tips, deals, and events, but also to inform and educate people on health and wellness during and after golf. Read more
The NFL season is just over a week away, and the football world could not be more excited to welcome back the most popular league in North America, and one that threatened not to even take place this fall. While most people would agree that the preseason doesn’t mean very much, it doesn’t mean that fans aren’t watching and aren’t getting excited for what is ahead. The past few weeks have seen several teams take the lead in social popularity, all of which are located in the northeast. Read more
