ATHLINKED Launches a Professional and Social Networking Platform Focused on the Alumni Athlete - Now there’s a niche social network for alumni athletes!

Top 10 US Social-Network and Blog-Site Rankings Issued for May - AOL Fanhouse still in the top ten blogs. Nice.

Dallas Cowboys Score with Social Media from Pluck - The Cowboys are going Web […]

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Stories of interest for Friday, May 23, 2008:

Survey Says: Without Sports Fans, Game Industry Could Fail - More interesting analysis from the CEA report.

Fantasy Sports Fans Like Buying Consumer Electronics, too (via RotoNation) - Not surprising stuff here, but yet more data about how fans are driving the purchase and development of consumer electronics.

Indy 500: […]

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Some interesting stories we’re following on Wednesday, May 8th:

Horse racing fantasy game in development - Montana is one of four states that allows fantasy betting on horse racing, demonstrating the growing gulf between state and federal legislation on fantasy sports betting.

The Elephants in the Room - Interesting story that states that traditional sports writers […]

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It’s clear with that with the news that Yahoo! and CBS Sportsline are creating open networks allowing developers to create applications that the online sports and fantasy sports world is about to change. A project ahead of the curve appears to be SCORE OS - Fantasy Sports Management System. His team’s goal is to […]

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Stories of interest for today, April 28, 2008:

Y!Open: rewiring Yahoo into a macro social network - Yahoo! is opening up its platform to developers to create social network applications throughout the social graph - imagine the impact possible with the millions of Yahoo! fantasy sports owners.

AOL Acquires Fantasy Sports Site Fleaflicker - AOL is increasing […]

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Here are some stories of interest for April 25, 2008:

PrepChamps Raises $1.2M to Recruit High School Jocks - We’re really seeing a proliferation of these sites and the money shows they are here to stay.

Play Hard Sports launches casual online sports game company - Company gets $5 million in venture capital and will create casual […]

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Some interesting stories for April 18, 2008:

Enthusiasts find big is not always best with social networks - Bigger is not always better when it comes to social networks, and sports is a prime example of niche social networks succeeding.

2K Sports Touches Them All with Major League Baseball 2K8 Fantasy All-Stars - A review of 2K8 […]

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Stories we’re following for you on this Wednesday, April 16, 2008:

Fantasy Sports vs. Social Media - An interesting blog post, but one can make the argument that fantasy sports at its heart is social media given its’ good fit with Web 2.0 technologies already available.

Know the Fantasy Sports Business like an old pro - a […]

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In a testament to the growing popularity and staying power of sports social networks, YardBarker.com today received $6 million in its second round of funding, according to TechCrunch. For the uninitiated, Yardbarker is an online sports community where users can upload links (like Digg) and videos and fans can read blogs written by athletes (Donovan […]

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Happy Friday, everyone! Here are some interesting news stories for today:

Takkle.com launches rankings for high school boys and girls - The site now features top 100 rankings of boys and girls lacrosse and baseball players.

CraveOnline acquires two basketball niche sites - They’ve now acquired HoopsVibe and StreetBallTalk - growing the b-ball empire, it appears.

What’s so […]

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