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Inaugural “The Business of Sports Awards”

Posted by Russell Scibetti  Published in General

I’m excited to announce the nominees for the 2010 The Business of Sports Awards! Every spring, we will take a look back to reward the best content and contributors from the sports business community over the past year. Unlike other sports business awards that recognize the people working within specific organizations, the goal for these awards is to recognize those individuals, companies and websites that create and share the best sports business content and provide the most benefit for the rest of the sports industry.

With that said, the nominees are…

Best Sports Business Blog

Best Sports Business Twitter Account

Best Sports Business Content – Company

Best Sports Business Up and Comer (Note: I adjusted the time constraints on this category a bit. In future years, this will be the Best Newcomer, someone who only started contributing since the last year’s awards)

Best Alternative Sports Business Content

People’s Choice – Sports Business Social Media Contributor of the Year

  • Amy Martin
  • Brian Gainor
  • Dan Beeman
  • Darren Rovell
  • Kathleen Hessert
  • Lewis Howes

The voting for the People’s Choice award (on the top right of the page) will run through the end of April. All of the winners will be announced at the beginning on May.

Update: I’ve had a few questions about how people can vote on these awards. For this year, the only award that you can vote on is the People’s Choice award. However, I encourage you all to leave comments about who you think should win in the other categories. These comments will be considered when deciding on the winners. Thanks!


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The Sports Business Exchange » Blog Archive » The Sports Business Exchange Team Nominated For Two Awards said on April 19th, 2010 at 11:06 pm

[...] To see a complete list of all categories and all finalists, and to vote for the “People’s Choice – Sports Business Social Media Contributor of the Year” award, visit TheBusinessOfSports.com. [...]

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Jeff Allen said on April 20th, 2010 at 8:05 am

Best Sports Business Twitter Account – is missing Darren Rovell – hands down provides more true “sports business” information/news/insight than all other nominees combined. Not sure on the thinking there.

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Russell Scibetti said on April 20th, 2010 at 8:11 am

Darren definitely provides a great deal of content through Twitter. It’s one of the reasons that he’s in the People’s Choice category. I tried to make sure that no one was in more than 2 categories (he’s in Blog and People’s Choice). Same reason why Brian Gainor and Lewis Howes aren’t in the Twitter category either.

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Sportsin140.com – Athletes & Sports on Twitter! » Posts » Sportsin140.com nominated for Business of Sports Award said on April 20th, 2010 at 9:34 am

[...] I’m proud to announce that Sportsin140.com has been nominated for “Best Sports Business Twitter Account” in the inaugural Business of Sports Awards at TheBusinessofSports.com. [...]

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Jon Kander said on April 20th, 2010 at 3:45 pm

Quick story regarding http://www.partnershipactivation.com – Over a year ago, a colleague of mine complained that one of his favorite sportsbiz websites was down. He claimed he had been using it for nearly all of his recent client projects and it was a great archive of relevant sponsorship info. Direct quote – “Just when I find a great sponsor web source, the web site goes down…” The problem – Brian Gainor had to briefly change his website’s domain name from partnershipactivation.com to partnershipactivation.net. I quickly told my colleague where he could find the site.

With all due respect to the other nominees, whom I follow on twitter and read regularly. I would vote for Partnership Activation and Brian Gainor to win the “Best Business Sports Blog” and “People’s Choice” Awards.

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Nominees announced for 2010 Business of Sports Awards : BusinessJournalism.org Reynolds Center for Business Journalism said on April 21st, 2010 at 4:28 pm

[...] might want to check out the nominees for the inaugural Business of Sports Awards announced this week by The Business of Sports, a blog dedicated to discussing new ideas and current [...]

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How Social Media Is Changing Golf – Notes from 140 Conference by Jason Peck said on April 21st, 2010 at 8:26 pm

[...] a side note, I was recently nominated for a Business of Sports Award (best twitter account). There are a lot of other smart folks who have been nominated for awards [...]

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Mike Ferrin said on April 22nd, 2010 at 12:56 am

Best Sports Business Tweeter: @bizballmaury Maury Brown is for my money the best in “The Game” at breaking down the business side of the game so Sports Radio types like me, who don’t know anything about business, can sound like we do.

Vote Maury!

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gijsbregt said on April 22nd, 2010 at 9:26 am

I am a big fan of Pat Coyles Sportmarketing20.com, that’s why I use the hashtag #sports20 for my tweets in English concerning sports 2.0
Check that hashtag, check the twitterbox on http://www.sportsmarketing20.com or check my Tweets on http://www.twitter.com/gijsbregt

On Twitter I like @khuda1 the best
SponsorPitch & IEG do a great job on Twitter and their blogs, although I don’t like IEG putting their sponsorship news behind a paid wall.

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joshg said on April 22nd, 2010 at 5:09 pm

Im hooked on Sports Agent Blog and @Darren_Heitner, so my vote for sports bus content is Dynasty Athlete Representation.

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Jason Aron said on April 24th, 2010 at 12:00 pm

Be Your Own Fan TV is honored to be nominated for the inaugural alternative content award. In honor of the nomination, we made this special behind the scenes video of our latest interview. It can be viewed here –

http://www.vimeo.com/11188896

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