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Top 10 Obese Athletes Who Dominated Their Sport

Miranda — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:34:13 +0000

When most of us think about sports, and professional athletes, “fat” is not usually a word that comes to mind. However, the truth is that some athletes are obese. They simply aren’t burning off calories at the rate they are consuming them. Sports managers and trainers may try to get some athletes in shape, but they may not be interested in losing weight. And why should they be? If a professional athlete is doing well in his or her sport, why change anything. There is no reason to lose weight if you can dominate. Here are 10 athletes who did well in their sports, in spite of being heavy:

Babe Ruth: George Herman Ruth, Jr. is probably the most famous of baseball players. He was also a large man — a large man whose nickname was “Babe“. Baseball fans still love Babe Ruth, and he is still considered one of the best players ever. He was known for high living, eating, drinking and carousing with enthusiasm. His lifestyle ensured that he would not be slim. Even so, he was still a fantastic hitter. Even in 1921, as he grew larger and larger, he had arguably his best season.
David Wells: Like Babe Ruth, David Wells made his name as a pitcher. They call him “Boomer” because he is big and bad on the mound. Considered one of the premier left handed pitchers in Major League Baseball, Wells made his mark by being one of the 20 pitchers to have pitched a perfect game. He played for the Yankees and for the Red Sox, and has made several post-season appearances. You have to admit, seeing a ball thrown from this big man from the mound would be a little intimidating.
Shaquille O’Neal: This big man center is a big man. He is one of the heaviest players the NBA has ever seen, weighing in at 325 pounds. To be fair, he is 7ft 1 in tall. But other tall players do not have his bulk. Shaq has been able to use his size to dominate other players on the court, and has helped different teams win NBA championships. Recently, O’Neal has been moved around a lot between teams, and he is also the oldest active player in the NBA. Basketball is in his blood and he continues to play — and play reasonably well.
Glen Davis: There’s a reason that Glen Davis is referred to as “Big Baby”. It’s because he’s big. Weighing in at 289 pounds, Davis is another big man who can dominate through his size. Davis plays as a backup center sometimes, but he is most often used as a power forward. While he didn’t get a lot of playing time during the regular season, Davis rose to prominence for the Celtics during the NBA playoffs in 2010, even playing a role in the Finals series.
Charles Barkley: There’s reason that announces call Charles Barkley “The Round Mound of Rebound.” He was a good rebounder, but he also had a distinctive build. He dominated players on the court, though, and had an aggressive style of play. He was also outspoken, not shy about his opinions. Fans, though, love his brash ways, and Barkley is still on the sports scene as an analyst. Barkley also writes books and follows politics. He famously announced in 2008 that he would run for Alabama governor in 2014.
Jerome Bettis: Okay, so it’s hard to pick from football players that could be considered obese. There are a lot of very big guys that play football. One of them is Jerome Bettis, whose nickname is “The Bus.” And the man really is a bus. At 5 ft 11 in and 252 pounds, Bettis was able to power through a number of tackles as a back. Sometimes he even dragged his would-be tacklers into the end zone with him. Bettis is retired now, but the legend of The Bus still lives on.
John Daly: One of the most famous golfers in the world is John Daly. He is famous for his driving distance, and as a result is called “Long John”. His off tee shots are considered rather dominating. Also dominating is his appearance. As someone who appears obese, Daly flouts the country club look adopted by most other golfers. Additionally, his attitude and appearance in other ways also set him apart from other golfers. But there is no denying that he is an intriguing figure — and one that still dominates on the course.
André the Giant: You probably know this…giant…from The Princess Bride. However, André René Roussimoff was professional wrestler in France. And, due to his size, it is little surprise that he dominated, even winning a title, and being inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame. The giant was more than 7 ft tall, and weighed more than 500 pounds. Even though his size is the result of a real condition, he also helped things along with a great deal of eating and drinking.
Tony Stewart: Anthony Wayne Stewart is one of the premier auto racing drivers in the U.S. He has won titles in Indy and stock cars. He also drives in NASCAR. Stewart is known for his large size, as well as his driving ability. In addition to driving, he is also an owner. He only drives part time now. Stewart is rather large, though, and some have disparagingly joked about his ability to get into a race car. But that doesn’t change the fact that he has been a great driver, and one that has won plenty of awards.
Dusty Rhodes: This professional wrestler won several National Wrestling Alliance titles. He also did well in the WCW and with WWE. Dusty is known for his polka-dot wrestling outfit, and for his expanding size. Born Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr., Dusty Rhodes was known for his over the top performances, and also worked hard to be seen as a working class hero. He was known for the Bionic Elbow, a signature finishing move. Right now, Dusty still wrestles sometimes, but mainly does work as a booker and producer in Florida.

25 Google Chrome Extensions for Sports Fanatics

Linda — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:00:17 +0000

Google Chrome got off to a slow start, thanks to the lack of extensions that Firefox enjoys as a browser. But, that’s all changing, thanks to developers who are knocking their socks off to develop extensions that can satisfy any sports fanatic. We’ve gathered 25 Google Chrome extensions for sports freaks and listed them below.

Each link is listed alphabetically under three categories — stats and other toys, sports news and a final category that can enhance your sports viewing experiences. You can find plenty more extensions at the Google Chrome extension Web site.

Stats and Other Toys

Sports covered here include auto racing, baseball, online games, fantasy sports, football and basketball.

Advanced F1 countdown timer is a more advanced version of the F1 countdown extension. It includes a map of the circuit and rankings of the teams and drivers.
Baseball Player Search is the coolest search tool ever created specifically for baseball geeks. Player Search lets you query any one of the top baseball stats sites, or several at once. Incredibly useful if you’re doing research, a fantasy draft, or arguing with your friends about which guy is better.
JoyRack Games offers hundreds of free online games. This Chrome extension lets you browse through the games under categories such as Action, Sports, Racing, Strategy, Puzzles etc and lets you play games right from the extension.
Pickemfirst Fantasy Sports is a free service that will give you a competitive edge over your league mates. This extension brings you news from Rotowire, game statistics and bloggers opinions about all the players mentioned on the web page currently displayed in your browser.
QB Rating Calculator calculates quarterback ratings with the same formula used in professional football by entering the quarterback’s statistics and pressing the “Get Rating” button.
StatSheet offers dozens of college basketball team extensions for Google Chrome. Start on this page or do a search on the Google Chrome extension page.
Ultimate Football Results simply the fastest and easiest way to view results from the popular football leagues and competitions. Grabs results from multiple pages from BBC SPORT and displays them on one screen.

Sports News Extensions

ESPN is the big draw here, but you also can gather news from other resources listed at the Google Chrome extensions page. Look for the sport app developer to find specialized topics.

Are You Watching This?! carries sports scores, news, and television listings for arena football, auto racing, men’s college basketball, women’s college basketball, college football, MLB, NBA, NFL, CFL, NHL, Soccer (MLS and World Cup), and the WNBA.
Cricwaves brings live cricket feeds right to your browser. With this extension you can now follow match updates in a non intrusive manner.
ESPN Cricinfo shows you the latest cricket news, features and live scores straight from ESPN. You can now select one or more matches to follow by clicking the check boxes next to them.
ESPN F1 offers the latest Formula 1 news, featured stories, season standings and race schedule from espnf1.com.
ESPN Mobile loads the ESPN mobile website into an iframe from the html file. This allows for easy access to one of the best content for sports.
ESPN Scrum allows you to get the latest rugby news, features, interviews and live text commentary from ESPNScrum.com.
S24 live score follows sports scores in real time, including auto, basketball, NBA, football, handball, rugby, tennis and volleyball.
Sports Scoreboard helps you stay up to the minute with live MLB, NBA, NHL and top 25 college basketball scores. Includes quick glance at real time sports scores with links to ESPN.com GameCast, box score and team pages.
Sports Scores PRO 1.3 provides you with the fastest baseball, basketball, football and other sports scores and updates for all your teams.
SportsDash for MLB, NFL, NBA, and Soccer is the official app for tracking live baseball, football, basketball, soccer scores is now available on Chrome. Get a live score matrix, hyper-news stream and track team by team or league by league.
Sportskeeda can update you with the recent sports news in India and around the world.
Real-time Baseball News for Google Chrome provides the latest baseball news and opinion. Blogs and traditional sports media reports all on a single page.

TV, Tickets and Help

Watch your favorite games live on the Chrome browser, or purchase tickets to that event. These extensions enhance any sports’ lovers experiences!

Chrome TV is free plug-in to watch online TV direct from your browser. With more than 3,000 TV channels from all over the world, this is best way to easily watch TV on your computer.
Event Ticket Finder allows you to set your preferences for the type of event, location and date range – you can even use three powerful keyword filters to narrow down your search even more.
LIVE Streaming and Online Broadcasts Monitor allows you to gather up to 25 live stream channels from Livestream.com, Blogtv.com, uStream.tv, Justin.tv, Stickam USA, Stickam Japan, Microsoft Media Server (MMS) services and Motion JPEG video stream in one and only page.
PanicButton is the ticket for you to escape the boss’s prying eyes! PanicButton makes it easier for you to hide all of your tabs at once just by clicking on a button. They are then saved as bookmarks in a separate folder.
TicketPortal allows you to buy tickets in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
TV Chrome allows users to watch television directly from the Chrome browser, over 2780 live channels sorted by country and category, including sports and World Cup 2010.

27 Essential Twitter Apps for Sports Fanatics

Miranda — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:19:04 +0000

Twitter is quickly becoming one of the most popular places for people to find news and information. Twitter apps make it possible to manage information using Twitter, without the need for visiting several different sites to find the information you want. That’s one of the nice things about Twitter: It is easy to organize and personalize the information you want.

If you are in sports management, sports apps can be a great way for you to keep up with the latest news, and make better decisions. If you are a true sports fanatic, even if it isn’t your job, sports Twitter apps can help you keep your appetite for all things sports sated. Here are 27 great Twitter apps for true sports fans:

General Sports Scores, Updates and News

Keep up with what is making headlines in the world of sports, and find the scores for your favorite teams.

PlayStub: Add your own commentary to sporting events, and read others’ commentary. A fun way to use Twitter to share your views — and find new views — on sports.
Tweetletes: Follow teams, athletes and news with the help of Tweetletes. You can also follow the latest news in the world of sports with the help of journalists.
SportyTweets: Covering all major sports, you can get the latest headlines, team information, scores and more from this great all-purpose app.
Twackle: A cool Twitter aggregator that helps you organize news and team information. A great tool for the sports fanatic who wants to stay up on everything.
Sports Live!: This app integrates with Twitter so that you can follow different sports news and information. Keep up with real time scores, and comment on the team. Live ticker and more.
Championist: Follow only the winners on Twitter. Cool Twitter app that lets you keep up with who is winning. Also includes awesome sports journalists.
AthleteTweet: Choose which professional athletes to follow. You can get photos, the latest news on athletes in a variety of sports, and more interesting information. A great way to keep up with your favorite professional athletes.
iTwitSports: Send your own updates and information to Twitter. You can also send pictures. You can become the news reporter and updater with the help of this neat app.
Redux: An interesting look at the way things work in the sports world. Looks at sports marketing news, sponsorship news and more.
BettingTwits: You don’t have to be a sports bettor to enjoy this app. It is a fun one that allows you to keep track of sports news. Make your own bets, and tweet about who you think will win. A fun way to keep up with the world of sports.
Snaptu: Use this to organize different sports tweets and information. An all-purpose app that can be used for more than just sports. A great way to keep everything organized.

Tournaments

Use these Twitter apps to keep up with what is happening in your favorite tournament. Find out what others are saying, and join the Twitter conversation.

TweetBeat: Kosmix offers this great Twitter app brings you the latest on what is happening with the World Cup. Be a part of the largest sporting event in the world!
World Cup Replay: Cool app that lets you keep track of how Twitter is reacting to the World Cup, and lets you get a recap of the day’s action. A cool app for anyone interested in the intersection of the world cup and Twitter.
World Cup Twitter Buzz: CNN keeps you updated on what’s happening on Twitter as the World Cup unfolds. An interesting app that lets you follow teams, keep track of scores and generally get swept away with World Cup fever.
TweetBracket: Keep track of the NCAA tournament in a fun way. You can choose your teams to win from the random match-up, and your choices are tweeted. You are entered for prizes, and you can see how you do throughout the tournament.
March Tweetness: Another NCAA tournament Twitter app, this one allows you to find interesting conversations in real time, and follow different games and teams.
PokerRoad Nation: Use this app to follow the World Series of Poker. An awesome app for the poker enthusiast. Follow professional poker players as they work toward winning the ultimate pot. A great, fun app.

Specific Sports

Twitter apps designed for specific sports can provide you with the in-depth access you want, right from Twitter.

Runscord: Have Major League Baseball scores sent to your Twitter account automatically. Real time scores for the teams you’re interested in.
MyTeamTweet: This Twitter app is designed for those who are into European football (soccer). If you are interested in keep track of what is happening in the world of European soccer, this is the app for you.
Twantasy Football: You want to use Twitter to keep up with your fantasy football moves? Share your insights, and find out how others are doing in fantasy football with this app.
TennisTweets: Keep up with what is happening in the world of tennis. Follow tennis stars, and vote your favorite posts.
ThinkClimbing: A great Twitter app for climbers. Find and follow other climbers, and read real time tweets about climbing.
Twootball: American football information. NFL related news, team information and athletes. Keep up with your favorite happenings in the world of football.
ProFootbalTweeting: Follow football news by following those who are tweeting in the NLF. Great information on what’s happening in football from the insiders.
DailyMile: If you are a runner, this is a great app that can help you interact with other runners. Keep track of your route, and read about others. Get running news as well.
Map My Tracks: Train smarter and improve your sporting performance. If you are wild about playing sports — and not just sitting on the sidelines, this is a great app. Real time GPS tracking for sport enthusiasts and those who organize sporting events.
CricTwits: That’s right. There is a Twitter app for cricket. Connect with other cricket fans, and share your thoughts. Get energized for the next game and follow your team.

20 Inspirational Female Athletes Who Won… In a “Man’s Sport”

Miranda — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:43:38 +0000

With a number of women’s sports leagues, we often don’t think about women competing directly against men in the sports world. However, it has happened in the past, and it continues to happen today. Women coach men’s sports teams at the school level, and there are women in sports management positions. And, while we don’t see too many women competing directly against men, it does happen. Here are 20 inspirational female athletes who have held their own going up against men:

Up to and Including 1950

Women made solid strides in the sports world prior to 1950. Determined to get beyond the stigma against women in sports, and determined to pave the way for women’s rights in all areas of life, these female athletes showed what they were made of.

May Kaarlus: While there had been women billiard players in the past, the sport was mostly regarded as a male past-time. Kaarlus, though, took it a step further and is considered the first woman to specialize in trick shots. In 1901, she amazes New York City, performing billiards trick shots that her male counterparts fail to master. At 16, the ambidextrous Kaarlus is a sensation in a sport that, for years after becoming popular in 15th Century France, barred women from using a regular cue.
Madge Syers: It seems a foreign concept to us now, but in the early 1900s, professional figure skating was dominated by men. In fact, it never occurred to anyone that a woman would enter a figure skating championship — until Madge Syers did so in 1902. Since the rulebook didn’t specify gender, Syers entered the World Championships and won a silver medal. However, many thought she should have won gold, and there are reports that Ulrich Salchow, who was presented with gold, gave her his medal. The International Skating Union immediately changed the rules to ban women from competing against men after this upset, and eventually set up a venue for women to compete against each other.
Lula Olive Gill: The first woman jockey to win a horse race in California showed that it was possible to race and win. At the time, in 1906, few women were jockeys, and they raced against men. Lula Olive Gill won a horse race, and later that same year, Ada Evans Dean rode her own horse to victory after her jockey had become ill. Indeed, Dean won twice — in spite of never having raced before.
Eleanora Sears: This great-great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson was an all-around athlete. While she was most well-known for her prominence in women’s tennis and women’s squash, Eleanora Sears shocked her high society neighbors by participating in — and excelling at — sports considered the province of men. She played in trousers on a men’s polo team, and skippered a yacht that beat Alfred Vanderbilt’s yacht. She also participated in speedboat racing and football.
Gertrude Ederle: Just as women were being recognized as swimmers, Gertrude Ederle decided to swim the English Channel. She had already won medals for women’s swimming in the Olympics, and beat out men and women at other swimming events. When she crossed the English Channel, only five men had done it before her. Ederle not only swam the Channel, but beat the fastest male swimmer by nearly two hours. A couple of weeks later, when Mrs. Clemington Corson swam the English Channel, she also beat the best male time, even though she didn’t swim it faster than Ederle.
Jackie Mitchell: There were a few women in professional baseball, mostly in the minor leagues, in the early part of the 20th century. One of these was Virne Beatrice “Jackie” Mitchell Gilbert. She was a pitcher, and played for the Chattanooga Lookouts. When this minor league team played an exhibition against the New York Yankees, Mitchell struck out Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. After this, Mitchell’s contract was voided (baseball being “too strenuous” for women) and the commissioner instituted a ban against women in professional baseball that lasted until 1992.
Conchita Cintrón: Bull fighting has long been considered a male sport. However, in 1937 Conchita Cintrón began bull fighting at the age of 13. She fought for 13 years, and slew 800 bulls. She did as well — or better — than many of the men, and is considered the first woman to compete at a high level as a professional bull fighter.
Joan Pflueger: Trap shooting was considered a mostly male sport, and Joan Pflueger often shot against men. One of her biggest feats was winning the Champion of Champions event against an all-male field when she was 18. She also won numerous honors in women’s shooting events. She has been inducted into the Florida Trapshooting Hall of Fame, and is remembered as one of the best trapshooters ever, male or female.
Sally Stearns: The first female coxswain in a male boat in the male-dominated sport of rowing was Sally Stearns, of Rollins College. With Stearns as coxswain, the team won some crew races, and initially, they disguised her as a boy. Her presence was a shock to some, when it was revealed, but there have been female coxswains in male boats since.

After 1950

Since the middle of the 20th century, women have continued to try and compete directly against men. It remains an uphill battle, but there are some solid and inspirational female athletes continuing to blaze the trail.

Margaret Murdock: Rifle shooter Margaret Murdock won a varsity letter at Kansas State by competing on the men’s rifle team. She was the first woman on the U.S. Olympic shooting team in 1976. She won a silver medal that year, after tying with Lanny Bassham, U.S. team captain. Olympic rules forbade a shoot-off, which Bassham had requested. During the national anthem, Bassham pulled Murdock up to stand with him.
Billie Jean King: Everyone recognizes Billie Jean King. In 1973, this women’s tennis champion played male tennis legend Bobby Riggs. Even though Riggs was 55 and his best days over, everyone expected him to beat King, since he had defeated Margaret Court earlier in the year. If you had bet on King to win in Vegas, you would have been quite wealthy, since the odds were so high against her. She won against Riggs, and opened the door for more women in professional sports.
Danica Patrick: Even more people recognize Danica Patrick. She has been racing since age 10, when she started on the go-kart circuit. Patrick is only the fourth woman to compete in the Indy 500. She finished second at the Formula Ford Festival in 2000, and won the Twin Ring Motegi at the Indy Japan 300 in 2008. She remains the only woman to have won an IndyCar race, and gives plenty of men a run for their money in NASCAR.
Seana Hogan: Forget the silly little 100-mile events. Seana Hogan is an ultra-cycling legend, competing at a high level. She has won numerous women’s ultra events, and her time for riding from San Francisco to Los Angeles is a record — beating the best men’s time. She was also the overall winner of the 1995 Furnace Creek 508, and routinely finishes in the top overall finishers at ultra-cycling events, including against males.
Ellen MacArthur: In most cases, sailing is considered something dominated by men. Sailing records for going around the world are often held by men. But in 2005 Dame Ellen MacArthur beat Francis Joyon’s record, and logged the fastest time for sailing around the globe. In 2008 Joyon reclaimed the title of record-holder, but MacArthur has shown herself a sailor to be reckoned with.
Pamela Reed: When we think of running, we often think of men as the dominating sex. However, when it comes to long-distance running, Pamela Reed beats many of the boys. She has finished first in the Badwater race against men, and she is the first person to run 300 miles without sleep. Her male counterpart, Dean Karnazes, has twice attempted to run 300 miles without sleep — and failed.
Katie Hnida: The first female to play in a NCAA I-A game, Katie Hnida was a kicker. She played at Colorado and New Mexico. She has scored extra points. Other female college kickers include Brittany Ryan, who has 35 extra points and three field goals, and Ashley Martin, who was, in fact, the first woman to score in college football’s Division I.
Germaine de Randamie: If you are into kickboxing, Germaine de Randamie is someone to look to. She has won against men, including knocking out Belgian Tom Waes. However, some point out that Waes only trained for three months and de Randamie is a professional fighter. However, there have been other women to beat men in the fighting world, including Chantal Ughi, who defeated Kwan Fa.
Kelly Kulick: Only this year, in 2010, Kelly Kulick became the first woman to win a regular Professional Bowlers Association tournament. She has competed against other women in female events, as part of the PBA, which opened to women after the PWBA folded. However, few women make it very far in this male-dominated sport. Kulick may have just opened the door.
Lynn Hill: Many people still think of rock climbing, especially free climbing, as something that men do. However, there are a number of talented female climbers. And one of the most amazing is Lynn Hill. She was the first person to complete a successful free ascent of the Nose Route on El Capitan in Yosemite. This is something that many thought was impossible, including plenty of men. In 2005, Hill’s 1993 feat was duplicated by two more women, Katie Brown and Beth Rodden.
Sonya Thomas: When we think of competitive eating, women don’t usually come to men. We think of large men — or at least the skinny Japanese sensation Takeru Kobayashi. However, Sonya Thomas is a major competitor in the world of professional eating. At just 100 pounds, she is known for her ability to keep up with the big boys, with her 33 eating world records.

The Ultimate Fan’s Guide to World Cup 2010 on the Web

Linda — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:21:20 +0000

The 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer event in South Africa represents a colossal effort in sports management. If you’re interested in a sport management career, or if you’re just an avid (read: obsessed) soccer fan, you’ll want to know more about stadiums, ticket sales, fan reactions and more. That’s why we’ve compiled this list of 50 Web sites, wikis, iPhone apps, videos and more that can answer your questions about the who, what, when, where, how and why for this year’s ultimate soccer competition.

Web Sites

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: Get your fill of news, match information, groups, teams, ticketing and more at this FIFA site.
FIFA 2010 World Cup South Africa: Get your fill of the teams, tickets, schedule, stadiums, hotels, qualifying and more (including videos).
FIFA News Centre: Catch up on news, interviews, media releases, widgets, photos and videos from the official FIFA news center.
I Scored a Goal: This ESPN Soccernet Site offers a history of all the players who ever scored goals in the FIFA World Cup Finals.
Project 2010: This site is a free service geared for companies, organizations and individuals who have a vested in the 2010 World Cup and the impact it will have on business in South Africa. Expect around-the-clock coverage of preparations and the event.
SouthAfrica.info: Tap into the this site for South Africa to learn more about the World Cup at the source.
TravelersPoint World Cup 2010: Learn about the host cities, participating teams and travel ideas from this top-notch travel site.
US Soccer: Follow the US news, teams, tournaments, schedules and more at this site.
World Cup 2010: The Official ESPN site on the 2010 Word Cup games.
World Cup 2010 South Africa: Stay on top of ticket news, hospitality choices and more at this Web site.
World Cup Fans: This site, located at iAfrica, provides readers with tourist information, host cities and news.

Wikis

2010 FIFA World Cup: This Wikipedia page can provide you with updated news, links and the story behind this year’s world cup.
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: This Wikipedia page focuses on the video game that debuted on 26 January 2010.
FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 Wiki: Join this wiki to take in the World Cup from South Africa. Contains links to sister sites in Spanish and Portuguese.
Final draw sets groups for FIFA World Cup 2010: An article from Wikinews that includes all the teams, sources and links to more information.
FootballFanCast Fans Wiki: News from fans on their favorite teams, the best seats, how to get to the match and more.
MICDS World Cup 2010 Geography Site: Join this Wiki to get in on the discussion, to learn about the history, and to meet other soccer fans.
Wapedia 2010 FIFA World Cup: This page holds links to everything you’d want to know about the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Wikimedia Commons FIFA World Cup 2010: Get a gander at images, links and information for this year’s World Cup.
Wikio World Cup 2010: Learn about the stadiums, the host cities and watch a slew of videos at this wiki.
WikiProject South Africa/Soccer 2010 Map: Learn about and participate in the South Africa 2010 Soccer Map.
Wikitravel World Cup 2010: Read and participate in this wiki about travel, accommodations and more for the 2010 World Cup.

Video Games

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa: This is the FIFA-branded official game, where you can play with any one of the 199 teams out of 244 nations that entered the competititon.
FIFA 10: EA Sports’ FIFA 10 provides players with new levels of control to experience the game like never before.
FIFA Manager 10: Experience the thrill of masterminding a world-beating football team.
PES 2010: Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 offers a great game, but rarely has the licenses to name team and players.
Pure Football: This Xbox game offers a group of elite players who risk everything to participate in the game. Rules are decided by players, not by referee.
Super Web Soccer: You can solo your way around the entire pitch in this free game, if you choose.
World Cup 2010 Free Kick Challenge: This free game allows you to try and win a game when you reach a specified target.
World Cup Combo 2010: Another free game that allows players to interact when their team has a chance to attack.

iPhone Apps

2010 World Cup Schedule: Free match schedule for the 2010 South Africa World Cup. All fixtures and results, match calendar, team and venue schedules and profiles.
3D Penalty Football World Cup: With smooth controls and great graphics, this is a top-rated iPhone app.
Africa 2010 World Cup Calendar 1.2: This freeware app allows you to organize so you can free up time to watch the matches (in Portuguese).
ESPN 2010 FIFA World Cup: For the first time ever, the Cup will be lifted in Africa and ESPN will be there to bring you exclusive coverage of this historic event free to your iPhone or iPod touch.
Soccer Head 2 Head: Game play is similar to air hockey. Kick your friends butt with off the wall bank shots and flick shots for greater speed.
Soccer Match: Concentration game for English Soccer lovers. Match the soccer logos as quickly as you can.
World Cup Fixtures 1.0: Get this freeware app to get fixtures for the 2010 World Cup.
World Soccer Daily Widget: Join Steven Cohen, Howard Rogers and on occasion Nick Geber Monday through Friday 10AM to 12PM PST on the freeware Sirius Satellite Radio show World Soccer Daily.

Videos

2010 FIFA World Cup: South Africa “New Skills” Tutorial: Learn how to do all the new skills in the 2010 FIFA World Cup game.
FIFA 2010 World Cup – Official Trailer [HD]: A trailer for the official game, release date 27 April 2010.
Footytube WC Qualifying Europe: The latest videos and podcasts for European teams. Use this link as a jump start to browse this entire soccer video site.
k’Naan Official FIFA World Cup 2010 Theme Song – Waving Flag: K’Naan’s song was chosen of AKON’s song.
Playlists: A list of World Cup teams participating in this competition.
World cup 2010 theme song: The 2010 World Cup Theme Song performed by Rezza Brothers.

Twitter

@FIFA_news: News from the official FIFA Web site out of Switzerland, with more than 14,000 followers.
@FIFAWorldCupTM: With multiple locations, this Twitter account represents an unofficial FIFA soccer world cup resource with over 44,000 followers.
@MLS_Insider: Tweeting for and about Major League Soccer from inside MLSHQ in New York City and beyond with over 28,000 followers.
@ussoccer: This is the the governing body of soccer in all its forms in the United States, with over 72,000 followers.
@WCUP2010: Over 27,000 fans follow this South African soccer source on Twitter.
@WorldCup2010FC: Bringing updates from Orlando for soccer fans, with over 10,000 followers.

50 Unbelievable Sports Clips on YouTube Worth Watching

Linda — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:48:49 +0000

If you have a little extra time on your hands, you might want to watch some sports bloopers, amazing extreme sports and some of the best football tackles of all time. No need to spend time searching, though, as we’ve already compiled a list of 50 unbelievable sports clips from YouTube. Just don’t try any of these tricks at home, unless you’re desperately seeking an agent.

Extreme Sports

Adrenaline Hunters Movie Trailer: Trailer for the award-winning action sports film by Victor Muh called Adrenaline Hunters.
Best Extreme Sports Video Ever: These are highlights from on of the biggest Extreme sport competitions in the world, Outdoor Games 2007.
Dan Osman — Speed Climbing: Like a spider, or a monkey, or just the most extreme rock climber ever.
Extreme Base Jumping in Wingsuits: Some hardcore guys base jumping in wingsuits.
Extreme Skiing 60′ cliff drop: Amateur dude in Winter Park, Colorado does a double back flip and rotates a 1440, but not without a few extra tricks and spills.
Snowboard Free ride followed by an avalanche: Taking down a steep mountain, shaking down some snow along the way.
Snowboarder triggers …and survives! Even better…New Zealand skateboarder actually rides the avalanche. Nuts.
Story of the Double Cork: A series of snowboard videos that provides AMP energy. Start with the introduction to learn more about the crew.
The Best of Extreme Sports: Surfing, human gliding, train surfing and more. Your palms will sweat.
The Coolest Extreme Skiing Dudes: Deep powder, amazing jumps and more in this video.
Top 20 KickAss Extreme Sports I’d Like to See on YouTube Live – Adrenaline Rush: Trend Hunter TV provides images of fireball soccer, rocket packs, flipping wheelchairs, power risers, skydiving from space, ostrich racing and pillow fighting (pillow fighting?).

American Football

5 Hardest Football Tackles: Some of the hardest hits in the NFL.
American football — Amazing: An American football classic for your enjoyment, with a focus on a young John Elway in a game between Sanford and California in 1982. A touchdown is made at the last minute, and…
American football big hits and nasty injuries: Can a leg really bend like that without breaking? Some hits in the NFL and college games.
DeAndre Brown – Southern Miss – breaks leg during bowl game: Possibly one of the most excruciating leg injuries to watch.
American Football Hardest Tackles in History: You’ll wonder how they survived after you watch this video.
Best of Football Highlights: Catch some amazing plays in this video.
Football Greatest Injuries — Joe Theismann: Theismann’s career ended on November 18, 1985 when he suffered a gruesome compound fracture of his leg while being sacked by New York Giants linebackers Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson during a Monday Night Football game telecast. Watch it happen here.
NFL Football Highlights: The best in recent history from the NFL.
NFL Highlights 2009/2010: Last season’s best highlights and hits.

Baseball

Baseball….the greatest moments: The best moments in baseball for the past several decades.
Baseball’s Best Moments: Catch it all from Mazeroski to Buckner to the Sox breaking the curse in this video.
Crazy runner on a baseball game: A man wearing a straitjacket runs on the field in the middle of a game between the LA Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks.
Josh Womack’s crazy bat skills at Long Beach Armada 2009 Training Camp: AAA outfielder Josh Womack demonstrates his bat tricks at training camp.
The Greatest pitch ever thrown: An amazing pitch in front of…empty stands.

Basketball

2009 NBA Bloopers: Some clips of the greatest bloopers of the 2008-2009 NBA season.
Basketball Prodigy: This little basketball beast is 11-years-old and is in fifth grade.
Dude Perfect (Amazing Basketball Shots): As seen on Good Mornign America, six college roommates hit awesome basketball trick shots around town.
NBA Best Shots: Get ready to watch some of the most amazing shots ever in the NBA.
The Best NBA Fights Ever: Crazy times on the basketball court.

Futbol/Soccer

AFL Highlights 2009: Highlights from the 2009 AFL Season.
Best soccer football compilation ever: A focus on the best goals in this video.
The best of soccer: Watch amazing footage of some the of best plays in this sport.
Top 10 football fights and fouls: Even the referees get in on it in one incident.
David Busst Horrific Injury: Did you know a leg could fold like that?

Golf

BEST GOLF BLOOPERS Special Funniest Home Videos # 261: Need we say more? Some great shorts.
Best Golf Shot Ever: Tiger Wood at the 2005 Masters, a shot heard ’round the world.
ESPN Top 10 All Time Golf Shots: This is one video in a series, showing some of the greatest shots of all time from the PGA and World Cup.
Tiger Woods *Wow* best golf shots on the PGA tour! Compiled during the 2004 PGA Tour, this is the best of Tiger Woods before his 2004 slump.
Toughest Golf Trick Shot Ever by Ben Witter: Ben Witter hits a golf ball out of mid air while standing on a 75 cm Swiss Ball.

Hockey

Best hockey fights: Watch them wrestled in the nets as well as on the ice in this video.
Great Hockey saves: Watch goalies save their teams in this amazing video.
Great hockey plays, big hits and nice goals! Some intricate moves and skillful plays in this video.
Hockey’s Greatest Moments: This six-minute video has an amazing amount of great hockey coverage at its best.
Clint Malarchuk gets throat slit by skate: Possibly the worst personal injury on ice. He lives to talk about it.

Sports Bloopers

Funny Bloopers: A soccer ball goes into the crowd and a horse racer fall off his horse.
Funny Sports Bloopers: Watch tennis players fall over nets and ping pong players fall for no reason.
Funniest Sports Bloopers Ever! Watch a monster truck roll over and a skateboarder fall off a roof.
Sports Bloopers: This compilation of sports bloopers include more people falling and some amazing crowd participation in various sports.
What could possibly go wrong? One of the best blooper videos, this clip include motocross, wrestling, kids and more.

25 Must-Have Kindle e-Books and Subscriptions for Sports Fans

Linda — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:00:21 +0000

Thanks to Kindle fans, Amazon sales were up forty-two percent over the holidays. Keeping stride with their electronic readership, Amazon now provides over 410,000 books for its electronic book reader in the Amazon Kindle Store. We waded through these offers to bring the best sports fan collections straight to your Kindle.

The following twenty-five must-have Kindle e-books and subscriptions for sports fans provides the best that Amazon has to offer in football, baseball, soccer, sports culture and sports marketing. If you follow the links and browse at the Kindle Store, you’ll learn that there are far more than twenty-five sports fans books at Amazon; however, this list contains the top-rated and best-selling e-books. If you’re a sports fan, you’ll have fun discovering more books that focus on various teams, team players and special perspectives on specific teams and sports.

This list is categorized, and each link is listed alphabetically by title within those categories.

Sports Fans in General

Chicken Soup for the Sports Fan’s Soul: Every sport is covered and every age level can relate to the stories in this book that highlights the positive nature of sports.
ESPN The Magazine: The Daily Playbook: A daily subscription of ESPN The Magazine, from classic sports stories to predictive analysis and controversial opinion including Behind the Bets, The Gamer, MMA Submission, The Action Sports Report and Ryan McGee on NASCAR.
Fans of the World, Unite! A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers: Stephen Ross, a law professor at Penn State, and Stefan Szymanski, an economics professor at Cass Business School in London, believe American sports fans are caught up in an abusive relationship. The authors outline a plan to end fan suffering, stressing league control via an independent entity.
God Save the Fan: Will Leitch, the founding editor of the sports blog, Deadspin.com, offers a collection of passionate, original essays about the good, the bad and the ugly. If you trust Leitch, you’ll love this book.

Baseball

Baseball Americana: The Library of Congress houses the world’s largest baseball collection, documenting the history of the game and providing a unique look at America since the late 1700s. Now Baseball Americana presents the best of the best from that treasure trove to your Kindle.
Baseball Field Guide: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball: Baseball Field Guide organizes and explains the sometimes vague, misleading, confusing, inconsistent, and obscure rules governing America’s favorite pastime.
Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball: Emmy Award-winning sports announcer, Bob Costas, is a natural for audio. He uses this platform to its best advantage to talk about what’s wrong with baseball today.
Watching Baseball Smarter: This is a professional fan’s guide from beginners, semi-experts and “deeply serious geeks.” Trivia abounds, as well as a tongue-in-cheek style that brings it all on in an easy-to-read book.

Basketball

Great Moments in Basketball History: Young basketball fans may savor this book, which covers famous buzzer-beating shots, amazing game-saving plays and thrilling maneuvers that defied gravity.
March to Madness: The Ultimate Fan’s Trivia Book: This book features unique profiles of the basketball’s most courageous as well as its zaniest characters as well as tons of trivia.
The Art of a Beautiful Game: The Thinking Fan’s Tour of the NBA: Chris Ballard, who covers the NBA for Sports Illustrated, provides a real insider’s gem of reporting basketball. His obvious passion for the NBA shines through.
The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy: Author Bill Simmons, best known as ESPN.com’s “The Sports Guy,” explores the NBA with laugh-out-loud insight, spot-on analysis and a slew of irreverent footnotes.

Football

Bowled Over: Big-Time College Football from the Sixties to the BCS Era: Michael Oriard, a former second-team All-American at Notre Dame, explores a wide range of trends that have changed the face of big-time college football and transformed the role of the student-athlete.
Every Week a Season: A Journey Inside Big-Time College Football: Brian Curtis tracks several perennial powerhouses, such as Colorado State and Florida State, over the course of the 2003 season.
Football for the Utterly Confused: This book provides new fans or spouses of die-hard football fanatics with the ins and outs of what’s going on on the field, as well as insight into the historic rivalries, traditions like the wave, and the greatest moments in both college and professional leagues.
The Class of Football: Compiled in conjunction with the Pro Football Hall of Fame, The Class of Football brings sage advice from legends of the game. Use their knowledge, leadership, experience and athletic prowess to learn more about the game.
The Football Fan’s Manifesto: Popular football blogger Michael Tunison of KissingSuzyKolber.com offers the no-hold-barred rules and bylaws that every football fan should know in The Football Fan’s Manifesto.

Soccer

Football, Violence and Social Identity: Drawing on research from all over the world, this volume examines the culture and loyalties of soccer players and crowds and their relation to social order, disorder and violence.
Soccer in a Football World: The Story of America’s Forgotten Game: The world calls this game, “football,” but Americans call it “soccer.” How did America come to accept this game and how have American teams changed the rules? Find out in this absorbing book.
The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer: David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer’s rise in this book, from chaotic folk ritual to the world’s most popular sport-now poised to fully establish itself in the USA.
The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup: The editors, both American, gather essays for each of the 32 countries that compete in the 2006 World Cup, providing an exceptional variety of discourse and digression on soccer as it relates to politics, culture, and personal life.

Marketing Perspectives

ESPN The Company: The Story and Lessons Behind the Most Fanatical Brand in Sports: ESPN tells the fascinating story of how ESPN managed to sustain its growth, innovation, and brand in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving marketplace.
The Elusive Fan: Reinventing Sports in a Crowded Marketplace: World-renowned communication expert Irving Rein, international marketing guru Philip Kotler, and communication specialist Ben Shields deliver an innovative new business model centered on fan satisfaction and retention.

Sports and Culture

Consuming Sport: Fans, Sport and Culture: This book examines the process of becoming a sport fan, and the social and moral career that supporters follow as their involvement develops over a lifetime.
Sports and Their Fans: The History, Economics and Culture of the Relationship Between Spectator and Sport: Though Americans spend more than $25 billion on sports and sporting events, this book argues that the influence of sports on our lives is even more profound than this huge figure would seem to suggest.

Top 50 Sports Business Blogs

Linda — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:13:53 +0000

Learn how to run a sports fantasy business, gain a footing in network marketing and spruce up your sponsorship skills through the top fifty sports business blogs listed below. The majority of these blogs have been around for many years, and all of them are updated on a regular basis. No matter if you want to break into the sports business, or if you already are knee-deep in sports economics and public relations, you may find some bits of wisdom from newbies, peers and elders in the sports business.

The blogs below are categorized and listed alphabetically within each category.

Sports Marketing Blogs

Mr. Rollins Sports Marketing and Management Blog: Keep your eye on this blog to learn about what sports marketing students are thinking. Run by Scott Rollins, a high school business and computer teacher and coach.
PR in Sports: This is a new blog dedicated to looking at all aspects of sports, from players, coaches, owners, teams and the media, in a public relations/marketing perspective.
Take a Peck: Follow Jason Peck to learn more about sports and its connection to social media and marketing.
Sports Marketing 2.0: Join this Ning site and contribute with your own blog about sports and marketing. This is an active group with great networking.
Sports Marketing & PR Roundup: Joe has over 22 years of strategic communications/marketing, business development and public relations expertise in sports, entertainment, brand building, media training, television, athletic administration and business.
Sports, Media & Society: This blog, provided by the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State, looks closely at the interaction of sports coverage and U.S. culture.
Sports PR Blog: A look at the sports industry from a public relations perspective.
The Sports Info Business: Charles Harris is marketing and communications professional with 20-plus years of experience in the areas of sports management, business, technology, entertainment, and the non-profit world.
Zs Newsbits: “Where the world of sports business and new media intersect.” This blog is bent toward sports fans, but sports personnel can pick up a tip or two hundred from this blog.

Sports Management Blogs

Sports Fantasy Business: If you want to learn about this business, then you want to read Brandon Funston’s blog. He’s the manager of Yahoo! Sports Fantasy’s editorial group.
Sports Agent Blog: Geared specifically to the sports agent, this blog also contains lists of agencies, interviews with agents and more.
Sports Networker: This site reaches a network of roughly 20,000 sports executives and professional athletes, and covers topics including social media, marketing, public relations, sponsorships and more — all related to sports.
Sports Management Blog: This blog focuses on European sports management and on global sports management technologies.
The Business of Sports: The posts in this blog cover a wide range of topics, including ticket sales, marketing, social media, corporate sponsorships, fan loyalty, brand management, sports media, finance and more.
The Sports Business Exchange: This journal is an opportunity for professionals who are just starting their careers to express their insights on the sports business industry. All sports topics are covered.
Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport: If you coach or manage a female athlete or a team filled with women, this blog offers cutting-edge information about women in sports.

Sports Economic Blogs

International Journal of Sport Finance: IJSF is published quarterly and serves as a high-level forum for the dissemination of current research on sport finance topics on a worldwide basis. The blog is updated almost daily.
Perfectly Competitive: Various takes on all types of sports trades, trade-offs, purchases and sales from an economist’s perspective.
Sabernomics: J. C. Bradbury offers economic thinking about baseball.
Sports BIZ: CNBC’s Darren Rovell provides his take on the business of sports: a multi-billion dollar global industry and obsession full of personalities and products.
SportsBiz — The Business of Sports Illuminated: Follow this blogger, who ruminates on the economics, law and business of sports.
The Business of Sports: Since September 1999, Sarah Talalay has covered such sports business issues as sponsorship- and naming-rights deals, sports marketing and advertising, shoes, ticket sales, labor issues and the Marlins’ ongoing quest for a new ballpark.
The Business of Sports JSOnline: Although Don Walker is located in the Wisconsin area, his focus on the ever-changing sports business landscape is wide ranging.
The Sports Economist: This blog focuses on economic commentary on sports and society. You might also enjoy the blogrolls in the left column — plenty of them.
Walk Like a Sabermetrician: You may want to visit this site not just for the baseball/sabermetric commentary, but also for the wide variety of links.

Sports Sponsorship Blogs

Athletics Development Frontier: This blog was created out of the need for an easily accessible, unified destination to discuss, learn and gather information surrounding the practices of athletics development — specifically fund raising.
Partnership Activation: This is the blog for the business that connects brands with fans.
Sponsor Crunch: Follow this blog to learn more about branding yourself or your team and how to groom your pitch for sponsorships.
Sponsorship Insights Group Blog: This blog is produced by a sponsorship agency dedicated to being a centralized resource for all things sponsorship.

Sports Law Blogs

Legal Aspects of Sports Blog: Don’t let the vanilla look of this site put you off — this blogger currently teaches, researches, and studies at Indiana University, and is interested in sports law.
National Sports & Entertainment Law Society Blog: NSELS is a low-profit, limited-liability company created by law students that focuses on organizing and centralizing sports and entertainment law societies. This is their blog.
Sports Agent & Sports Lawyer Blog: This blog, written and maintained by Jason B. Wolf, sports agent and lawyer, provides insight from the inside.
Sports Law Blog: This blog stands out as one of the top law and sports blog on the Internet. It is current, relevant and informative.
The Sports Law Canary: Kris and Jon both teach law, and they’ve combined forces to offer ‘nuggets’ of sports law, news and opinion at this blog.
The Sports Law Professor: Jeffrey Standen is a professor of law at Willamette University, where he teaches sports law, among other courses.
World Sports Law Report: Use this blog to stay on top of law developments, court cases and more that are concerned with sports.

Sports Insider Blogs

27 Pitches: This blogger is a sports fanatic who likes to call attention to stories that fly under the mainstream media’s radar.
A Sports Scribe: This freelance sports reporter offers a first-hand look at some major stories as well as smaller stories that may prove to provide a big impact.
Pitch Invasion: Pitch Invasion is a blog exploring soccer (or football, if you prefer) culture around the world from outside the mainstream media.
Sports Business Radio: Guests on the show offering an insider’s perspective include pro sports league executives, agents, college athletics administrators, sports apparel company reps, ad agency executives, media executives and athletes.
Sports Media Journal: Look to this blog to find out more about the people and organizations that manage and report sports news.
Sports Media Watch: Keep an eye on sports in the media through this blog, which covers the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, college football and Nascar.
The Big Lead: This is an independent sports blog that offers interviews and more for sports personnel and fans alike.
Ultimate Sports Insider: Michael Cross provides news, observations and commentary about college athletics with a focus on intercollegiate athletics as a business and educational enterprise.

Sports Media Blogs

Awful Announcing: This site focuses mainly on the perils and follies of the Sports Media, but also critiques and reviews those within the Sports World — hopefully, you haven’t been roasted here.
Deadspin: One of the most popular media sites for athletes and fans, offers “sports news without access, favor or discretion.”
Eye on Sports Media: Take a tour of some photo galleries, broadcasts and best practices and read up on any sports topic imaginable.
NY Sports Journalism: This blog stays on top of sports, sports marketing, sports media and more so you can stay informed.
Sports Media America: Martin Brady provides a monthly in-depth look at American sports, the media that cover it and the issues behind gamesmanship.
Stupid Sideline Reporters: We think the title of this blog alone makes it stand out above the rest. Read it to learn more about what sports fanatics think — which can be far removed from what often is reported.

Top 50 Blogs for Sports Agents & Sports Managers

Miranda — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:39:21 +0000

Sports agents and sports managers need to be well-connected and up-to-date in order to do the best job possible. However, with so much going on, it can be difficult to keep up. The good news is that, whether you want to learn about being a better agent or manager, understand the laws and restrictions that apply, or if you just want to keep up with the latest trade rumors, there are blogs to help you. Indeed, technology has made it possible for bloggers to get the news out about the latest happenings in the world of sports. Here are 50 blogs to follow if you are looking for the inside scoop on sports related issues.

Sports Agent Blogs

If you want to see what else is happening, and learn from some great sports agents, here are some blogs to follow:

Sports Agent Blog: This blog is aimed at sports agents and aspiring sports agents, sharing news on the industry and looking at different agencies.
Yard Barker: The tag is “Everyone’s an Insider.” This blog is meant for sports agents, providing news and information, and even offering athlete blogs posts.
Juiced Sports: Get a look at what is happening in the world of sports, see athlete interviews and learn more about sports agents.
Boras Blog: Scot Boras provides contract negotiations for athletes and can offer a great deal of insight into how the system works.
Women Talk Sports: A look at sports and what’s going on in sports from a female perspective.
SportsPro Media: Get the latest deals and see interviews with sports agents from around the world.
Sports Agent Blog: This blog looks at the deals ready to happen, as well as previewing and recapping drafts.

Sports Management Blogs

Sports managers and aspirants can get a little insight into the industry and what is happening in sports — stuff they need to know — with the help of these blogs.

Rosenhaus Sports Management: Drew Rosenhaus is one of the best sports managers around. Get the skinny on this negotiating master.
Mr. Rollins Sports Marketing and Management Blog: Get an idea of how you can become a better manager — and sports marketer — with a little help from this blog.
Xclusive: This is the blog of Xclusive Sports Management, and offers a number of news and deals.
Athletic Women Blog: This blog provides insight into women’s sports, and even has posts on management, and breaking into sports management.
DTR Sports Management: A look sports managing from an Australian perspective.
Sports: dGi Management provides insight into sports management issues and news.
The Business of Sport Management: A comprehensive look at sports management and how to thrive in the business.

Sports Law Blogs

There are a lot of legal issues involved with sports. Contracts represent lots of money for all sides, and understanding a little bit more about sports law and how it works can be important.

Sports Law Blog: Get the latest news with regard to sporting legal issues, and commentary on decisions and judgments.
Golka’s Athlete Agent Regulations: Learn about the regulation of sports agents and understand the law a little better.
Sports Agent and Sports Lawyer Blog: This blog offers helpful information on getting into the law side of being a good sports agent — or a good lawyer specializing in sports.
The Sports Law Professor: Learn about the intersection of law and sports.
World Sports Law Reports Blog: Get a global view of the laws and regulations that govern sports in countries around the world.
The Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Blog: Mixed in with other forms of entertainment, you can get some good information on sports laws.
Legal Aspects of Sports Blog: Information on legal issues in sports, and news related to legal issues.
Connecticut Sports Law: While some issues are related to Connecticut sports law, there are also helpful insights that any sports lawyer can use.
The Sports Law Canary: Information and opinion about the latest sports regulations and laws.
Arias Sports Law: Sports law bulletins from around the world.
Sports is made for betting: This blog about sports betting explores news, information and more with regard to areas where sports betting is legal.

Sports Rumors and News

Sports agents and sports managers often live or die by how quickly they get the news, or how they respond to rumors. Keep up with the latest sports news and rumors.

Projo Sports Blog: The Providence Journal has a great sports blog with the latest news and information from the sports world.
EveryJoe: This blog portal offers helpful information on basketball, baseball, football, golf and more. Sports news galore.
Deadspin: This news blog offers sports news and commentary.
BallHype: This is site that lets you find the best sports blog posts from around the web. News and information on a variety of sports.
Hoopinion: Get basketball insight and commentary.
Five Tool Tool: Sports blog with commentary and news.
Stet Sports Blog: News and commentary from the wide world of sports.
Sports rumors blog: Get the latest on sports rumors and possible deals.
Action Sports News, Rumors, Blogs: ESPN offers the latest happenings in action sports.
The Big Lead: Information on deals that might be made in sports.
Melt Your Face Off: This blog focuses mainly on hockey, and providing you with the latest sports new and rumors.
The Sport Blog: A more global view of sports, from the Guardian in Britain.
The Sports Hernia Blog: News, information and commentary on what’s going on in sports.
Term Sports: Images, videos and breaking news from the world of sports.
Daily Sport Thought: Quotes, thoughts and news from different sports figures and deal makers.

Scouting Blogs

If you want to know something about an athlete, whether in high school, college or the pros, you want some specs. Scouting blogs help you learn a little bit more about who you might want to represent.

Scout.com: Features posts, recruiting information and reports on different players and teams.
Scouting The Sports: Looks at what is happening in the world of sports, and reports on different teams and players.
The Fantasy Sports Scout: Blog Talk Radio features this podcast blog that focuses on scouting for the fantasy sports season.
The Scout Leader: Recruitment information and scouting reports, especially related to the Gators.
Stiletto Sports: Another blog written from a female perspective. This includes information on recruitment and drafts as well as other sports news.
The College Baseball Blog: Keep up on what’s happening with college baseball players and look for prospects.
NCAA Basketball FanHouse: Be up to date on the hottest college basketball players.
FanBlogs.com College Football: College football news and reports on young and promising players.
beRecruited.com: Looks at different sports and offers articles on promising young athletes.
College Sports: Great blog from the Dallas News to keep you apprised of scouting opportunities and what’s happening at the college level.

Top 25 Free iPhone Apps for Sports Fanatics

Linda — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:00:06 +0000

Are you a sports fanatic who has thirsted for more iPhone sports apps? You might be surprised at the number of apps that have come online over the past few months, and they all seem geared toward a person who loves any type of sports, no matter if it’s from the couch or on the field. The following list of twenty-five apps for sports fanatics holds enough variety to keep you busy for months…or years.

The following list is categorized by single-player games, sports news, sports “Tweets” and apps that you can use for personal physical fitness routines. The links, which mostly lead to the Apple Web Apps page, are listed in alphabetical order within each category. The sports range from basketball and baseball to football and equestrian sports to wrestling, but NASCAR fanatics and snowboarders also can find apps for their sports, too.

Single-Player Games

Drop Point Alaska: This game drops you on a virtual mountain via helicopter to snow board down runs ranging from the simple (Kindergarten) to the most challenging. Mini-challenges include unlocking new clothes and snowboards and discovering secret places.
Madden NFL 08: You are the franchise in this game that puts you on the field and inside the front office to make executive decisions. Your accomplishments throughout the game feed into the “Ring of a Champion,” a new feature that tracks your progress on a championship ring.
NHL Eastside Hockey Manager 2007: This hockey management game features 20 playable leagues with more than 3,000 teams and over 45,000 players and personnel. Make trades, sign up-and-coming players, decide game-day tactics and more as you watch the play-by-play unfold.
Out of the Park Baseball X: Tweak your spring lineup, try out newcomers and follow the game as you march through the season to the World Series. Negotiate contracts, peruse free agents, and formulate strategies along the way.
Toca Race Driver 3: Meet Rick, a guy who guides you through your racing career as you compete in over thirty-five types of racing with 80 real-world tracks and 70 licensed vehicles. Between races, you can tune your tires, transmission, suspension and brakes or upgrade your components to improve performance.

Sports News

2010 World Equestrian Games Schedule: The World Equiestrian games consist of eight equestiran sports. The games are held once every four year, and for the first time ever, they are being held in the U.S. on 25 September — 10 October 2010 in Lexington, KY.
CBS Sports Mobile: Download this free app to view stats, scores and stay on top of all the sports action all the time for pro and college sports.
ESPN ScoreCenter: Another free app that provides scores from hundreds of sports leagues around the world. This updated app fixes the blank screen issue that fans have experienced after upgrading to new devices in the past.
iFootball: This app was updated for the NFL 2009 season, bringing you each team and its schedule, win/loss and past score information, an easy way to get tickets as well as directions to the game, the Las Vegas Line and other information that makes this app perfect for office pools.
InGameNow — MLB: Get live MLB scores, analysis, and interaction as well as scheduling, personalized setup and scores as they happen with this free app.
NASCAR Central News: This site, which is focused on everything NASCAR, is updated every twelve minutes. This app also has been totally revamped with new graphics.
Pool and Billiards News from Around the Globe: This newsfeed is for you if you’re a pool or billiards fanatic. The news is from around the globe.
Snowmobiler’s Headline News: Why waste time with inferior snowmobile reports? Let this app search for the best sites for snowmobiles every day so they can deliver them to you.
Sports Illustrated: Sports Illustrated’s free app for iPhone and iPod Touch provides sports news and topics of the day at your fingertips. Get breaking news when it happens, view stunning photography and share articles, news, scores and standings for your favorite leagues.
Wrestling-Online.com News: If professional wrestling and mixed martial arts are your bag, then this app is for you. Get all the latest news and information in four different categories for easy reading — WWE, TNA, MMA and general.

Sports Tweets

Basketball Tweets: Get the skinny on NBA teams and plays by following NBA teams, players and the media. You don’t need a Twitter account to see both sides of a Twitter conversation. You also get links to all team and player Web sites.
Cycling Tweets: Keep on top of race staff and commentators in the world of pro cycling. You can find links to cyclist Web sites, get profile pictures and be in on the buzz, even without a Twitter account.
Football Tweets: Follow both sides of an NFL football conversation, learn more about the teams and players and keep tabs on what’s new through this free app. Football Tweets also includes links to team and player Web sites.
Hockey Tweets: You don’t need a Twitter account to follow both sides of an NHL Twitter conversation. Hockey Tweets also includes links to team and player Web sites.

Get Off the Couch Apps

cityRUNNR: A simple runner’s app that helps you keep track of all your runs. Record your progress in a simple and intuitive interface.
EverydayBurner: You might want this fully-specked HTML 5 Web app that supports offline storage and launching. For now, the only feature is a traditional iPhone-style stopwatch, but it has changed dramatically. Coming soon — features such as workout programs, sessions calendar/tracking, supplements suggestions and much more.
Gym Technik — Mobile Fitness Tracking: Probably one of the best iPhone apps around, and it’s free. This tool allows you to log your workout stats for cardio and weight exercises as well as choose from an extensive library of workouts. You also can add your own exercises and track your workouts and graph your progress.
iCalorie: Use this tool to calculate calories burned during various exercises such as running, walking, biking, swimming, yoga and palates.
Pace Calc: This app was designed for bikers and runners the world over, as it converts distance and times in Kilometers or in miles.
Stop Watch: This is a simple app, but a useful one for both active and spectator sports. Start the timer and mark up to nine points.