Let’s play ball on the Internet

November 12th, 2009 . by Steve Greenberg and Lois Whitman

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Let’s play ball on the Internet.

75 million people a month already do. There are 75 million sports fans that search the Internet each month to find the latest and the greatest news and information about their favorite team or player. Most fans have to rely on their local newspapers for info, but they find that limiting. Local newspapers don’t really give them the big picture scope. Yahoo tries to be the big picture platform, capturing 24 million monthly fans. Pretty impressive? For a while, yes.

Enter Ty Ahmad-Taylor, formerly of Comcast and Viacom, where he learned to deliver customized content to a very strong fan base. Now he is doing the same thing for sports with the creation of fanfeedr.com, a leading edge aggregator that gives real time sports news in one space, with one single feed. Fans customize what they want when they want it — teams and players. Users can also interact with other sports fans.

FanFeedr encourages sports fans to use Facebook for login because they know you don’t want to sign up for another social network. The site is indexing over 3,000 sources and matching them against more than 50,000 athletes and 4,000 sports teams, including 1,700 colleges and universities across 15 sports.

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