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To make money, sports bloggers need to be business-oriented
This is the last post in my series about what’s next for sports blogging. As a reminder, these are my own opinions, not necessarily those of my employer Yardbarker. You can read the previous posts here: Introduction: a call to action Sports blogs, ESPN, and why I like Deadspin’s ‘horndoggery’ ...
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How can you not love Manny Pacquiao?
Manny Pacquiao's marketing people are geniuses. Between goofy videos like this one from Fox Sports and punching pumpkins on Jimmy Kimmel you can't not like this guy. Cotto who? <a ...
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Niki D'Andrea adds Twitterjacking to her arsenal of cluelessness
If anyone else had done this, I might have ignored it. But this is Niki D'Andrea , and I'm a big fan of running jokes. When last we saw the "reporter" from the Phoenix New Times , she was quoting hilarious excerpts from a satirical blog post as fact and basing an entire cover story on the false ...
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Sports bloggers need to work with the incentives of distributors
This is part of my continuing series about what’s next for sports blogging. You can read my introduction here , as well as posts about the tension between ESPN and blogs like Deadspin and the power of distribution in relation to content quality . As a reminder, these are my own personal opinions ...
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The power of distribution: why content is not king
This post is part of my series about what’s next for sports blogging. You can read my introduction here and my post about ESPN and Deadspin here .

 As a reminder, these are my personal opinions and not necessarily those of my employer Yardbarker. An opinion I often hear among sports bloggers is ...
BallHype: hype it up!