Sports Bloggers and You!
October 10, 2006
Deadspin is an internet hub buzzing with blogging activity. Deadspin is primarily the Kingpin of all sports blogs – it gets the best stories and has the most exclusives. Hilarious, socially pertinent (at least in the sports world), and, according to Sports Illustrated, “the talk of locker rooms”, Deadspin’s services to the reader doesn’t stop there – they also link to many pertinent individual sports blog links of the day, in effect, seperating the junk from the blogging treasures for the reader’s to then discover.
Another up and coming sports blog site is the newly renovated AOL Sports. In developing their new site, AOL placed an extreme importance upon blogging and thus set out to bring in the absolute cream of the crop – talent wise – to write blogs for the site. Jayson Whitlock, formally of ESPN and a longtime columnist for the Kansas City Star, is an example of the talent being brought in for AOL Sports.
From a design standpoint, these sites have much in common – they’re clean, not overly gaudy, and are easy to read and navigate. This, I believe, is a decidedly proper way to go about developing a sports blog – the information has to be readily available, easy to find and, most importantly, pertinent. After all, there is a lot of competition out there.
