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Allsports.com

Allsports.com is a web site featuring sports news, first established in 1994. The site was started by Jerry Preeper, who had an idea of beginning a sports news site that was written entirely by fans. From a business standpoint it made good sense, as there could be a very large base of fan reporters who'd work voluntarily, and could create a large enough reader base to attract advertisers, and all revenue would go straight to Preeper. This concept worked, as sheer enthusiasm was enough to drive a wide range of fans to write for the site.

ArmchairGM

ArmchairGM is a sports-forum and wiki site. It was created by four people, Dan Lewis, Aaron Wright, Robert Lefkowitz and David Pean. It was introduced to the public in early 2006. While the site was initially US-based, it has sought to improve its links to sports associated with Britain in particular over the past year. It has recently entered the top 100,000 websites in terms of traffic ranking according to Alexa.

Awful Announcing

Awful Announcing is an independent Sports Blog written by Maryland native and James Madison University graduate Brian Powell. Powell got his start in the Sports Arena as an intern for the Women's United Soccer Association Philadelphia Charge and went onto work for the Washington Wizards in early 2004. While those jobs were definitely rewarding they weren't exactly paying the bills and Powell moved into marketing for a large Homebuilder in the Washington DC Area before starting the website in May of 2006. In early 2007 Powell also signed on to be one of the many outstanding contributors to the Sporting News' new blogging project, The Sporting Blog. There he provides Weekend Sports Television previews and reviews as well as many other articles throughout the week.

BadJocks.com

BadJocks.com is a website that covers sports-related misconduct and crime at all levels, from professional to children's, by not only the athletes themselves but coaches and spectators as well. Creator and content provider Bob Reno has since 2000 written daily items on not only well-covered events such as the rape charges against three Duke lacrosse players and the Minnesota Vikings "love boat" scandal but less-reported local events as well, with video clips sometimes included. While the site's news and audience are primarily U.S.-based, foreign news, particularly soccer-related, has been covered as well. He bills the site as "Where COPS Meets SportsCenter". In 2008 Time chose the site as one of 25 in its first annual blog index.

Bodybuilding.com

Bodybuilding.com is an online retailer/manufacturer of sports supplements and nutritional products. Bodybuilding.com was founded in 1999 in Boise, Idaho by then 21-year old CEO Ryan R. DeLuca. In July 2006, Milestone Partners acquired a majority interest in Bodybuilding.com for an undisclosed amount. In January 2008, Liberty Media Corporation acquired a controlling stake in Bodybuilding.com. The Wall Street Journal reported the sale was for more than $100 million. Bodybuilding.com is part of the Liberty Interactive unit.

CBSSports.com

CBSSports.com (formerly CBS SportsLine.com) is a CBS-owned website that provides sports scores, news, video, and information on fantasy leagues. It is considered one of the top sports websites, along with ESPN.com. It provides coverage of the National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, and many other professional sports leagues. It also features many on-line columnists such as Gregg Doyel, Dennis Dodd and Ray Ratto. It operates as a unit of CBS Interactive and is considered the online presence of CBS Sports.

ChessGames.com

ChessGames.com is a large chess community on the Internet, with over 87,000 members. The site maintains a large database of historical chess games where every game has a distinct message board for comments and analysis. Basic membership is free and the site is open to players at all levels of ability. ChessGames.com is a non-playing site where members discuss chess and analyze positions without playing chess real-time, except for team contests and consultation challenges. The site's membership has been very successful representing "The World" when competing against Grandmasters. The site features allow study of openings, endgames and sacrifices, including the specific opening repertoire of every Grandmaster in the database.

Deadspin

Deadspin is a sports website owned by Gawker Media that claims to deliver sports "without access, favor or discretion." The site launched in September 2005. With 111 million unique visitors and about 143 million page views as of December 2007, Deadspin was the second highest trafficked sports blog on the internet, behind only AOL Fanhouse. Since AOL Fanhouse is a collection of various blogs even AOL admits that Deadspin may be the highest trafficked traditional blog.

DyeStat

DyeStat is a popular website that is self-described as "The Internet Home of High School Track & Field". It was founded in 1998 by John Dye, and now features his wife (Donna Dye) as the features editor, senior editor Steve Underwood, assistant editor Dave Devine, two California co-editors (Rich Gonzalez, Doug Speck) and one business/marketing manager (Kirsten Leetch). The site lists many of the best times for both Cross Country and Track & Field on the high school level, while also covering most state and national championships. It is often used as a source for ranking and other statistics by journalists. DyeStat also features forums for athletes to discuss running.

ESPN GameCast

ESPN GameCast is an internet program that allows you to follow the happenings of various professional sports leagues from around the world. The GameCast tells you what happens, as it happens. You can follow a game on your computer to keep up to date and on top of the action. You get instantly refreshed statistics, and live graphics that track the action in the particular game chosen.

ESPN.com

ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN and a division of ESPN Inc. Since launching in 1995 as ESPNet.SportsZone.com, the website has developed numerous sections including: Page 2, SportsNation, ESPN 360, ESPN Motion, My ESPN, ESPN Sports Travel, ESPN Video Games, ESPN Insider, ESPN.com's Fanboard, ESPN Fantasy Sports and ESPNU.com. ESPN.com also has partnerships with MLB.tv, NBA.com, WNBA.com, NHL.com, Baseball America, Golf Digest, Scouts Inc., Jayski.com, USGA.org and Masters.org. It also has sections devoted to certain sports including: the NHL, NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR, IRL, College, Golf and Soccer. Each section contains pages devoted to: GameCast, Scores, Teams, Schedules, Standings, Players, Transactions, News Wires, Injures and Columnists pages.

Eurobasket.com

Eurobasket.com and its related web sites (usbasket.com, latinbasket.com, asia-basket.com, africabasket.com, and australiabasket.com) are a group of global basketball websites covering 242 basketball leagues in 153 countries.

Fishingkaki.com

Fishingkaki.com(aka Fishingkaki, FK.com or simply FK) is one of the world's largest fishing internet-based message board and is based in Singapore. It currently has more than 5000 registered members and more than 10 affiliates including internationally known brands such as fish hook manufacturer, Mustad of Norway and lure maker, Rapala of Finland.

Foxsports.com

Foxsports.com provides sports news, scores, sports statistics, sports and entertainment video, sports fantasy leagues and fantasy information. Launched in July 2001, it is a unit of Fox Interactive Media, which also includes other News Corporation online businesses, including MySpace, IGN Entertainment, Askmen.com, Rottentomatoes.com, Flektor and Photobucket, among others.

Imagine Sports

Imagine Sports is a Silicon Valley company founded by CEO Dayne Myers who launched an online game named Total Baseball using Tom Tippett's Diamond Mind Baseball technology. The company was originally founded as Simnasium, but changed their name to Imagine Sports in May 2007.

Laxpower

Laxpower is one of the leading online communities for high school and college lacrosse players and fans. Based in West Chester, PA, the site receives more than 20 million page views per month during the lacrosse season. Laxpower contains scores and statistics for collegiate and high school lacrosse teams in the United States and Canada. It uses computer ratings to avoid bias.

RealGM.com

RealGM.com is a website created in 2000. The site was originally a basketball site but has since included NHL, MLB, and NFL. Marcus Allen is a notable contributor to the site's NFL forum. The website is close to the top 5000 most visited sites according to Alexa, as of May 24, 2007. The site is noted for its trade checker, a system developed to analyze hypothetical NBA trades according to the collective bargaining agreement. A professional version of the Trade Checker has been licensed to several NBA teams.

Rivals

Rivals is a network of websites that focus mainly on college football and basketball recruiting. The network was started in May 2001 and currently employs more than 300 personnel. Most articles on the network are only available by subscription, as are the premium message boards.

Sherdog

Sherdog is the largest American website devoted to the sport of mixed martial arts. The site is a member of the Crave Online network.

U.S.S. Mariner

U.S.S. Mariner is a sports-based blog that focuses on the Seattle Mariners, a Major League Baseball team. It was created in 2002 by authors Derek Zumsteg, David Cameron and Jason Michael Barker. The site features a mixture of sabermetrics and scouting information in analysis of the team.

WhatIfSports.com

WhatIfSports.com is a company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. that specializes in online sports simulations and fantasy-style games. It uses custom sports simulators to allow users to match teams from any era and generate a complete play-by-play of a game. Simulations can be run for free, or users can build custom teams consisting of players from any generation and join leagues with their friends for a fee. Results are based on each player's combined stats from previous seasons.

Wisconsin Sports Network

Wisconsin Sports Network is an integrated publishing company with a focus on student athletes, their communities, families, friends, fans and coaches within the Wisconsin prep scene. It was created in 2002 by Nick Kartos with the help of Rick Hamilton. The company currently publishes three websites: WisHoops.net, WisFootball.net and WisSports.net. Wishoops.net launched on November 18th, 2002 and quickly became a top resource for high school basketball information in the state of Wisconsin.

Yahoo! Sports

Yahoo! Sports was launched on December 8, 1997. Previously certain elements of Yahoo! Sports were named Yahoo! Scoreboard before the launch of Yahoo! Sports. Yahoo! Sports is fed a majority its information from STATS, Inc. Yahoo! Sports has various writers along with team pages in almost every sport. On January 17, 2003 Yahoo! Sports launched their first major redesign of the website. On May 30, 2006 they launched the Yahoo! Sports Beta website. On February 1, 2007 the beta website was taken offline. On January 30, 2007 they put the following on the homepage "What if your favorite sports site got even better? The all new Yahoo! Sports. Coming soon." On February 1, 2007 they launched the current homepage.

YouCastr

YouCastr is a sports website operated by YouCastr, Inc. Youcastr.com allows its users to broadcast sporting events live, broadcast their own sports talk shows, and to add their live audio commentary on any sports related topic. Broadcasters also can let other users interact with live chat and participation in polls. Users can broadcast live, and also access recorded broadcast at any time directly on the original broadcaster's page. YouCastr content can also by downloaded in MP3 format as a podcast, and be shared with others through iTunes and other podcast supported applications.

YourSports

YourSports™ is an online media network for amateur sports operated by A to Z Sports Inc.. It’s YouTube meets ESPN for the thousand’s of amateur sports games, highlights, and moments caught on camera--that never make it to the web. YourSports powers internet TV for web publishers and videographers, delivers content to media syndicates, and connects advertisers to amateur sports with video.