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An Open Letter To All From Blogs With Balls and HHR Media

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  • Posted on October 20th, 2009 by User ImageJim Turner

To the illustrious attendees of Blogs With Balls 2.0:
We at HHR Media felt that by Tuesday, your BwB 2.0 hangover and double-vision would be mostly gone, and those of you (of which there were a few) who missed plane flights as a result of your excessive “conventioneering” shall we say, are home safe and sound.   [...]

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2009 Blogs With Balls Program At BlogWorld Expo Announced

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  • Posted on July 31st, 2009 by User ImageRick

If you didn’t know already, we are partnering with the folks at HHR Media this year to bring the most amazing sports blogging track ever to BlogWorld & New Media Expo.  The sports blogging conference is aptly named Blogs With Balls and drew more than 300 attendees to their first event a [...]

Does Your Blog Have Balls? Join Us In New York City!

I am headed to New York City on Friday, June 12, 2009 to participate in a very cool blogging conference in New York City at Stout New York.  The event is scheduled all day on June 13, 2009.  The have lots of panelists and cool topics. Of most interest to me is the “Why We [...]

Shaq Tweets At Halftime

In a word:  Wow.  We’ve been talking a lot lately about just how big social networking is getting, how huge Facebook and Twitter have become over the last few months and how they are more than likely going to continue to do so.  In case you were still a non-believer (didn’t the simple fact that [...]

Sports Imitating Life

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  • Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by User ImageRick

At least one Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Buzz Bissinger is imitating many of his MSM brethren in his opinion of sports bloggers. Check out this video from the Bob Costas Now program where Bissinger begins a 10 minute segment personally attacking super sports blogger (and BlogWorld 2007 speaker) Will Leitch from Deadspin.
Costas starts off [...]

Vote for Mark Cuban on Dancing with the Stars

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  • Posted on October 15th, 2007 by User ImageRick

The show airs tonight. Mark needs our help to win this thing. Check out this excerpt from his Facebook dancing with the stars page:

Mark invited you to “Dancing with the Stars – Vote for Mark and Kym – Again P4 !” today, October 15 at 8:00pm.
Mark says, “Thanks again to all that voted for [...]

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Should Olympic Atheletes be allowed to blog?

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  • Posted on February 13th, 2007 by User ImageRick

Interesting story on Brietbart the other day. Olympic Atheletes may be allowed to Blog:
The International Olympic Committee said Wednesday it is considering whether to let athletes post personal diaries on the Internet _ so long as the Olympic village isn’t turned into a “Big Brother” reality TV show.
Under Olympic rules, athletes, coaches and other team [...]

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