I’m sure this will be where sports news and athlete news specifically is headed as athlete’s take control of their message via social media rather than traditional media.
What do you think? Is this change good for sports fans? How will sports media react to this change?
This coming week may be the biggest in NBA history as the free agent class of LeBron, Wade & Bosh among others decide where they will continue to ply their trade. Teams & fans are in a frenzy at the possibility of landing one, two are perhaps all three. Chicago Bulls sold 1500 season tickets in 48 hours just on speculation alone.
Sports Geek getting the Southern Footy League up to speed with social media promoting this Saturday’s via a Facebook promotion with half-price entry to anyone who RSVPs on Facebook.
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Wimbledon using Facebook & Livestream to create a mashup to connect the press room to Facebook fans.
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More from Wimbledon since it is reaching the pointy end…
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While World Cup teams have banned players from using social media, others are using it as a launch platform for endorsement exposure. In Cristiano Ronaldo‘s case exposure is exactly the right word with his Armani photo getting 32k likes and 11,780 comments.
Twitter reports the massive spikes in traffic from the #worldcup but it was the Lakers’ win in the NBA Finals that broke records.
NBA Championship between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics. The Lakers’ victory generated a record 3,085 TPS as the game ended.
Can’t got past without mentioning the amazing 5 set match between Isner & Mahut that took 3 days to complete and ended with a 70-68 Isnet win in the 5th.
But here is the tweet of the tournament so far from Andy Roddick.
met the queen of england today …. she said she loved me in the american pie moviesThu Jun 24 16:06:49 via webandyroddick
andyroddick
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Toyota Racing have done well offering NASCAR fans the ability to create their very own NASCAR, great sport-sponsor digital promotion with Sponsafier 2.
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NBA using Vimeo to as part of broadcast package of the NBA Finals…
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Twitter is doing it’s best to bring World Cup fans together with it World Cup 2010 page. You can track tweets from games providing a twitter commentary when you mute the TV for vuvuzela relief.
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Kobe Bryant fan needs to be seen to be believed…
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Engaging Fans & Participants in the Digital Age Sydney – Star City – July 13 & 14
In case you missed Sunday’s episode of @SportzfanRadio I suggest you listen to the podcast. Topics covered included World Cup, NBA Finals, Horse Racing, NRL & AFL as well as the VUVUZELA
