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. ...
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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...
By Simon Ogus – Email | Twitter | Articles The 2012 Major League Baseball season kicked off Wednesday night at new Marlins stadium and it got us thinking about who the best teams are at engaging fans through Twitter. It turns out the Philadelphia Phillies blow away everyone with 679,519 followers while posting just over 4,000 tweets, by far the largest “follower to tweet” ratio in all of MLB. The New York Yankees pace the American league with 554,000 followers, but have a very low tweet count of just fewer than 5,000, which is much less than many other teams. The Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals respectively have the league’s lowest and second-lowest amounts of Twitter followers; the only teams to...
As we enter the Final Four this weekend, there are a lot of familiar faces headed to New Orleans to compete for the 2012 NCAA Championship. In fact, all of the programs (Ohio State, Kansas, Kentucky, and Louisville) have all been to the Final Four at least nine times. While all the programs have prowess on the court, Kentucky, which also happens to be the title favorite, has done an exceptional job of promoting their basketball players through social media.
