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Friday, January 14, 2011

Beyond the Cardboard Episode 2

In all its Joe Sports Fan glory...

"Beyond the Cardboard" with Earl Sanderson (Episode 2) from JoeSportsFan.com on Vimeo.

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

JoeSportsFan: Cuban Bat Fight (Remix)

Cuban Bat Fight (Remix) from JoeSportsFan.com on Vimeo.

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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Blogs With Balls Radio, Episode 25

This week’s Blogs With Balls Show on the JoeSportsFan Radio Network is now available.

Download Episode 25 here, or subscribe via iTunes.

We kick the show off this week with a very pointed voicemail we received from the incomparable Softball Guy, who was not all that thrilled with our guest selection this week: Matt Sebek from our podcasting partners JoeSportsFan.com.

An Exclusive, Emotional Interview with Softball Guy from JoeSportsFan.com on Vimeo.

Long before partnering up on the Internets waves, JoeSportsFan was a everyday read for HHR.

Matt's experience as an online programmer has helped take the site's brand to a new level of online media that includes blogging, and the incorporation of both audio and video.

About a month ago, JSF launched JoeSportsFanSTL.com which focuses on sports in the site's home town of St. Louis, and puts out a weekly Basketball Jones-esq video segment covering the latest hot topics surrounding the city's teams and athletes in the offbeat tone JSF fans have come to know and love.

Ep. 3: The One with Derrick Chievous from JoeSportsFan.com on Vimeo.

The city-centric, or "hyper-local," approach to online sports coverage is one we have been keeping a close eye on leading up to BwB3 in light of national companies like ESPN and Comcast, and regional ones like NESN and SNY going full force into blogging and multimedia/online platforms. We talk about how this could affect team and city-based sites, including the new JSF STL.

The guys that run the site have also dabbled in AM radio, and Matt talks about the advantages to working online as opposed to the terrestrial waves.

For any aspiring podcasters, and those bloggers looking to attempt video, this week is a must listen, as Matt let's you know from his experience what steps you can take to make your show(s) better and differentiate them from the field that is rapidly saturating.

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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Blogs With Balls Radio, Episode 21

This week’s Blogs With Balls Show on the JoeSportsFan Radio Network is now available.

Download Episode 21 here, or subscribe via iTunes.

Lucas has long been an advocate that the future of sports blogging lies in content producers adopting more than just the written word and dabbling in audio and video. We kick off the week talking a little about some folks who do the latter quite well.

Our ballsy blog of the week belongs to our good friends at The Global Sports Fraternity who did an absolute phenomenal job creating original, entertaining content at the Super Bowl in Miami.

Most notably, GSF's Henry Lowenfels gave Lions QB Matt Stafford the business at the Gatorade Fitness Lab.

We'd be remissed talking video if we didn't mention our BwB videographers and editors Ben Eckstein and Rob Baker, as well as the great work done by Wondershot Productions (who gave us the BwB opening/welcome video).

Our favorite ongoing use of video-that-should-be-its-own-TV-show is from our podcasting partners at Joe Sports Fan, who this week brought us the return of The Softball Guy.

An Exclusive, Emotional Interview with Softball Guy from JoeSportsFan.com on Vimeo.

Our guest this week was a panelist at Blogs With Balls 1.0 in New York and winner of the inaugural Blogs With Balls Charity Poker Shootout, Adam Best.

Best is the co-founder (with his brother Zach, a web designer) and senior editor of the FanSided.com sports network as well as the site that launched the network, Arrowhead Addict.

What sets FanSided apart from its competitors is the family-like business approach that Adam has taken to advancing it. Adam talks about the progression from blogging on his Chiefs site to creating the original make-up of FanSided as an NFL blog network to one encompassing multi-sports and housing 135 different sites. He taps into the importance of forging strategic partnerships, like he has with Yardbarker.com/Fox Sports and CBS Sports.

He also recently launched FlickSided.com, a site dedicated to his other passion - film.

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Say It Ain't So: JSF Exclusive Video - Softball Guy Confesses

An Exclusive, Emotional Interview with Softball Guy from JoeSportsFan.com on Vimeo.

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Blogs with Balls After Dark With Matt Sebek

A special thanks to “host” Matt Sebek who goes ahead and breaks down the film quite eloquently at JoeSportsFan.

Blogs with Balls After Dark With Matt Sebek from HHR on Vimeo.

From the afterparty at the ESPNZone to the Blogs With Balls Charity Poker Shootout, JoeSportsFan's own Matt Sebek brings you a behind-the-scenes look at the late-night side of Blogs With Balls.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Blazer-Wearing Southpaw Bids Pedro Adieu

Glad I wasn't the only one who found humor in this last night.

JoeSportsFan: Grown New York Men with Baseball Gloves Prevail

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Blogs With Balls Radio, Episode 6

This week’s Blogs With Balls Show on the JoeSportsFan Radio Network is now available.

Download Episode 6 Here.

Changing up the show's format this week as we get right down to brss tax with guest Dan Levy - host of On the DL Podcast, BwB 1.0 veteran, moderator at BwB 2.0 in Vegas and organizer of the "Blogs with Balls Charity Poker Shootout" featuring Annie Duke and some of the top pro poker players in the world.

Before hyping up the tourney, Levy talks about two things he knows best - podcasting and marketing. Lucas then flips the tables and puts Dan "on the DL" during "Skyped Up."

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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Blogs With Balls Radio, Episode 3

This week’s Blogs With Balls Show on the JoeSportsFan Radio Network is now available.

Download Episode 3 Here.

We proudly announce the addition of former NBA star and current ESPN basketball analyst Jalen Rose to the already stellar lineup of speakers at Blogs With Balls at Blog World Expo.

We highlight our Blog with Balls of the week, Radovich's Revenge, a blog authored by a lawyer who has the stones to break down the NFL's collective bargaining agreement in layman's terms (and with humor).

Today our guest is Mitch Germann (@MCG5), Vice President of Business Communications with Maloof Sports & Entertainment (Sacramento Kings and Monarchs), and panelist on the "Access" panel at Blogs With Balls.

With Mitch we preview some of the topics that the Access panel will address, including, among other things, dealing with players using social media as representatives of the teams/company and the receptiveness of the Kings and NBA's embrace of new media members.

The team has worked hard to engage local blogs and went so far as to invite them to preseason work outs and intend to invite them to media day and training camp with the ultimate goal of credentialing them for games.

"We have just recognized through observing this space that there’s some blogs in Sacramento that work hard and that cover the team...There’s a lot of interaction, there’s a lot of comments, a lot of fans are loyal to those sites and really as an organization our philosophy is that we want to be where our fans are We don’t expect to hold everyone hostage and make everyone come to Kings.com for what they want."

Of course, no guest appearance would be complete without challenging them to a game of "Skyped Up." We see how well Mitch knows his "kings."

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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Blogs With Balls Radio, Episode 2

This week's Blogs With Balls Show on the JoeSportsFan Radio Network is now available.

We want to thank everyone for the great feedback we got on Episode 1 and hope you continue to listen and offer comments and suggestions.

Download Episode 2 Here.

Today we tease our flubbed conversation with John McEnroe. Don't worry - we will salvage it.

He spoke with us about a number of things including his guitar playing, Wilmbledon dream matches, the future of the sport and more. But mainly he was on to promote prostate cancer awareness as an ambassador for "Stand Up 2 Cancer."

Please visit ProstateCancerWatch.com and check back in soon for audio and transcripts of our conversation.

Admittedly we ramble on for a bit in the begining, but an early point we are trying to make is that crediblity is among the most important qualities to have online. We hope the reason we were able to bring so many top online sports influencers together for both BwB 1 & 2 is due to the fact that we have taken the time to build and cultivate relationships, are genuinely sincere and honest, and have created a track record.

As such, we tried to make this a recurring theme appears throughout the program.

We had a ton of fun talking about this week's Ballsy Blog of the Week - our good friends at WhoDeyRevolution.com.

There latest task in "Project Mayhem" could very well have resulted in the first time in the history of the NFL that an owner of a team ordered the grounding of an airplane.

As WDR notes, the shenanigans were picked up by ESPN (via the AP) and Pro Football Talk:

ESPN.com is running the AP story on their website about last night's scrimmage, and the piece includes this great nugget:

"An estimated 6,500 fans showed up for the annual scrimmage. Soon after it started, a small plane flew overhead towing a banner that read: "101-187-1 ... HIRE A GM!" That's the Bengals' record since 1991, when Mike Brown took control of the team after his father's death.

Brown functions as the team's de facto general manager. He was sitting on a patio next to the press box, watching the scrimmage, when the banner flew overhead. The Bengals have had only one winning season during Brown's 18 years of running the team."
Also, ProFootballTalk gave Project Mayhem Task #9 a mention in their AFC North One-Liners.

Our guest this week is author, entrepreneur and former college standout/Arena League player Lewis Howes.

Howes literally wrote the book on online networking(LinkedWorking) and has used its techniques to establish an unmatched network of sports executives across the country.

Lewis talks about the importance of building relationships, trust and a brand identity online and offline.

Of course, we couldn't let him go without testing his familiarity with "relationship experts" on this week's "Skyped Up" segment.

This week's links of interest.

You can drop us comments, suggestions and hate mail at podcast[at]blogswithballs[dot]com.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Blogs With Balls Radio Premiers on the Joe Sports Fan Radio Network

Welcome to the premier of Blogs With Balls Radio on the Joe Sports Fan Radio Network.

From JSF:

Over the past few weeks on our regular installment of the "JoeSportsFan Show", we teased the fact that big news was coming down the podcasting pipeline here on JoeSportsFan.com. Yesterday, you saw the initiation of this news as our own Patrick Imig and Jason Major debuted their first weekly show entitled, "The Steel Cage".

Today, we're happy to announce a partnership of sorts with respected cohorts that will deliver complementary content to our own internal lineup. Without further ado, we're pleased to unveil the "JoeSportsFan Radio Network".

We couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of the team.

Download Episode 1 Here.

Today we kick off with a show intro to let you know where we plan to take the show, and highlight what’s going on with the planning of Blogs With Balls 2.0 at the Blog World & New Media Expo.

We point out our first Ballsy Blog of the Week, IanPoulter.com.

Poulter’s site is no small reflection of the confidence he has in his game and his style.

We also have our first guest of the show, NCAA All-American from West Virginia, former 2nd round draft pick of the Tennessee Titans, former Cincinnati Bengals captain, and Founder & Co-CEO of JockBiz.com, John Thornton (@JohnThornton).

In his post-playing career, John blogs at AllProBlogger.com and offers full-service consulting for players in everything from nutrition and dieting to social media development at Jock Biz.

We are also honored to have John join Mike Germano (President, Carrot Creative), Pete Vlastelica (CEO, Yardbarker.com), Ron Wechsler (VP Series Production and Development, ESPN) on the “Connecting Directly” Panel at BwB2, where the group will look at what athletes being able to speak directly to their fanbase via blogs & Twitter means to sports media, bloggers, and fans.

John offers a preview of the discussion on today’s show.

Regarding how the media, namely those covering the Bengals, see their roles changing as guys like Chad Ochocinco circumvent the traditional athletes and take their message directly to fans:

“The media people that we talked to they were all sort of afraid for their jobs because they feel like they’re going to get cut out. Chad was actually on that panel and he said he wants to cut the middle man out because he’s been portrayed in a certain way…

I think the role of the media initially was to cover the game. Whether you’re supposed to tell what happened, but I think over time the media got so much power and they start to give their own opinions, their personal opinions. Now…the media has to reinvent themselves. You got to use social media…

You can’t be afraid of the athletes Tweeting or using their blogs or Facebook, you know whatever. You just gotta use it. You got to find a way to reinvent yourselves because it’s not just the newspapers anymore. Everybody’s online. Everybody’s on their cell phones. You just got to use that and incorporate it into your own story.”

Regarding how players interact, specifically those John consults with or is familiar with:

“We really try to let the guys know hey it’s cool to have fun, it’s cool to put yourself out there, but - you know - it’s public…

But then there’s guys that don’t care. There’s guys that I played with that I follow on Twitter that I’m like, ‘Why are you saying that? Why are you talking like that?’ But its really, its how they are...

This is your public image…”

Finally, we put John on the spot for a game we dubbed “Skyped Up” where we see just how familiar he is with the sports personalities his clients potentially have to interact with.

Look for more great things to come both with our show (which will be available each Wednesday), as well as the other personalities that will be announced on the JSF Radio Network in days and weeks to come.

This week's links of interest.

You can drop us comments, suggestions and hate mail at podcast[at]blogswithballs[dot]com.

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Friday, June 5, 2009

BwB Organizers Join Panelist Matt Sebek on the JoeSportsFan Podcast

This week, HHR was featured on the Joe Sports Fan Podcast to talk about common misconceptions about the event and bloggers in general with host (and BwB panelist) Matt Sebek.

Speaking of podcasting, check out Ep. 161 of Spurscast for great San Antonio offseason talk and the hosts (and BwB attendees) Michael and Jeff give their thoughts and plans for the June 13th event (around the 75:00 min. mark).

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Have You Gotten Your BlogsWithBalls Tickets Yet?

Friday, March 13, 2009

HHR Returns to JoeSportsFan Podcast Wiffle Ball Segment

In what JSF called "the strangest Wiffle Ball segment to date," I join the site's Top 7 writer Jason Major, and Coldhardfootballfacts.com founder and head troll Kerry J. Byrne.

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Friday, February 27, 2009

HHR, OntheDL's Dan Levy, JE Skeets on JSF Podcast

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Friday, February 13, 2009

JSF Launches "The JoeSportsFan Show"

Our good friends at JoeSportsFan announced today their launch into podcasting promising "no radio airwaves, no call-letters, no commercials, no local weirdos complaining that we're not talking enough about Tony La Russa."

They kick off the feature by breaking out the big guns in their inaugural show with AJ Daulerio (Deadspin.com), Jamie Mottram (MisterIrrelevant.com) and Dan Steinberg (DC Sports Bog).

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Those who can’t do, teach…

Joe Girardi has named his coaching staff for the 2008 season.

Hitting coach Kevin Long and first-base coach Tony Pena will return, while Dave Eiland has been promoted to pitching coach. Rob Thomson becomes the new bench coach, and both third-base coach Bobby Meacham and bullpen coach Mike Harkey -- both members of Girardi's 2006 Marlins' coaching staff -- have joined New York.

Is this a coaching staff or the JoeSportsFan worthless card All-Stars?

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Worthless

As you are aware, as youngsters Fat Willard and I had an almost religious zeal for baseball card collecting. Hell, I collected anything sports related I could get my hands on. I'm even the stupid idiot moron who spent money on crappy crap like this:

I guess I thought if I was good enough to wear t-shirts with Taz, Bugs and Daffy donned in my favorite sports team's apparel, I was good enough to shell out money for cards in the same vain.

Stupid, stupid, stupid idiot.

What's even worse is I CAN'T THROW THIS CRAP OUT.

In addition to baseball, football & basketball cards, I have totes and totes and totes of boxes of everything from Desert Storm cards to the A-Team, and maybe even worse than Upper Deck Looney Tunes, hockey. Yep, I even have those.

Any way, I found this site feature months ago, and still find myself going back and re-reading it regularly for a good laugh, not only because I have most of these cards (or ones just like them), but I remember when playing high school baseball we used to compete to see who could find the most obscure players and post their ridiculous cards around the locker room. (Click the banner for the link.)

Kudos to you, JoeSportsFan.

Go check out their site. Tons of funny sheet on there. Then again, you've probably already been there.