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November 27, 2006 at 5:13 pm · Filed under Other
SeatSmart.com provides its visitors with a great way to purchase tickets to NBA, NFL, NHL, and college bowl games. After searching through offers from hundreds of providers, SeatSmart provides a list of available seats that may be sorted by price, quantity, and location of the seat. For those Daily Basketball readers who like to literally follow their teams around the NBA, the site offers a chance to purchase home and away tickets as well as showing their location in the arena.
Take a second to visit the SeatSmart blog. They offer advice on the best time to purchase tickets (before USC beats UCLA, for those interested in the BCS Championship game) as well as insider information on how to get inside the arena on game day. Tickets can be purchased well below face price, and you’ll definitely get a better deal than if you were to try begging a scalper before tipoff.
Before you waste your time on eBay or browsing through hundreds of results on Google, save yourself by going straight to SeatSmart. The site already compiles results from thousands of providers, and the SeatSmart price already takes into account any transactions fees found on other sites. The site was created to fill the stands, and with SeatSmart you can enjoy watching your team up close pain-free!
November 10, 2006 at 9:41 pm · Filed under Other
This post takes a short break from the basketball news while I try to suggest the other basketball bloggers around the NBA join ReviewMe.com. It’s a great chance to make a little cash off your writing and refer your readers to other great sites as well.
Signing up literally takes just a couple minutes, and you can easily get paid $20 (and up to $200) per post by reviewing other sites, typically related to your own. By signing up, advertisers can contact you through the site if they have a site that your readers may be interested in. The reviews can be positive or negative, which won’t effect whether or not you bring in a couple dollars for sharing related sports (or other) sites.
The prerequisites are minimal, with your blog needing just a few links and a small amount of traffic. Reviews can be written in any language, but must be at least 200 words long. Instead of getting paid for each person who joins the site, bloggers get paid just for spreading the name. Once you sign up, you can submit your blog with keywords so your reviews are specific to the reader! Daily Basketball readers can be guaranteed they’ll never have to read reviews about insurance, medicine, or real estate sites.
Take a second to sign up at ReviewMe.com! Of course, you’ve got nothing to lose but a chance to pay your hosting fees while sharing related sites with your readers.
October 23, 2006 at 1:20 pm · Filed under Other
The first annual Daily Basketball fantasy league will be starting soon, but you still have time to join in the next couple days. The league is hosted by Yahoo!, and the league information is as follows:
League ID: 95883
Password: dbfantasy
Make sure you set your pre-draft rankings soon.
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We’d love to have our readers help get our forums growing. Please take a second to join, and begin debating with other NBA fans! The site currently doesn’t have much activity, so we’re also looking for some moderators once things get going. One thing to talk about may be our list of the Top 10 blogs, which has brought some interest and debate between basketball bloggers.
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If anybody out there would like to help write for Daily Basketball, leave a comment or send an e-mail to cchadmin (at) gmail.com. We’re looking for some people to compile links and write features, but if you’ve got something else to offer that works too.
October 21, 2006 at 8:45 pm · Filed under Other
Taking a page from The Nugg Doctor’s blog, we’ve added “Bark It Up!” buttons to the end of each post. If you haven’t visited YardBarker, it’s a great place to read news from blogs of all sports.
This will give us a chance to rate for your favorite Daily Basketball posts, and share them with others. YardBarker allows you to vote for the top sports content out there, so please vote often and help us move up the rankings.
Please take a minute to sign up so you can vote for your favorite posts on Daily Basketball, and other top sports sites around the Internet!
October 20, 2006 at 5:04 pm · Filed under NBA, Other
For those of our readers who haven’t been around much of the basketblogosphere, there are several blogs which which you should be making daily visits to. While their aren’t any clear-cut rankings, some bloggers continue to lead when it’s time to bring you the latest news and rumors, team-by-team and around the league.
1. True Hoop (http://www.truehoop.com)
Henry Abbott has created a currently advertisement-free blog that was named “Best of the Web” by Forbes in the summer of 2005. Every day, readers including many of the other top bloggers check out what Abbott has to say. Abbott is hardly an amateur sportswriter, his work being featured in Hoop and Inside Stuff magazines and he has had the chance to interview the top players in the game.
2. Slam Online (http://slamonline.com/online/)
So what if these guys get paid to write their stuff, while most bloggers get paid through AdSense and other affiliate deals? Slam magazine is still of the most read basketball publications in print and on the web. Slam Online, seemingly written mostly by Sam Rubenstein and Marcel Mutoni (the writer of Bench Renaldo), feature a “Kick of the Day” and they are currently counting down the top 50 players in the league.
3. Hoops Addict (http://hoopsaddict.com/blog/)
Aside from hosting a popular NBA podcast, Ryan McNeill’s posts include a Dunk of the Day (who doesn’t like watching superstars’ high school highlights or Shaquille O’Neal pulling down the backboard?) along with game recaps, team-by-team discussion, and a summary a highlights from around the league.
4. CelticsBlog.com (http://celticsblog.com)
As one of the most posted on blogs around the NBA, CelticsBlog.com has in-depth and insightful posts about the Boston Celtics. All blogs, especially those focusing on one team, should try to have impressively thorough posts like Jeff Clark does. Everyday, Clark manages to find new rumors and current news to fuel the active forums accompanying his site.
5. Need4Sheed (http://need4sheed.com/)
Though she’s one of the few female basketball bloggers out there, Natalie does an impressive job maintaining Need4Sheed. The Detroit Pistons blog is the top Bad Boys blog out there, though she occasionally takes the chance to discuss other matters in the league or the Detroit Tigers.
6. Golden State of Mind (http://goldenstateofmind.com/)
The top blog for NBA teams in California isn’t about the Los Angeles Lakers, Clippers, or even the Sacramento Kings (though we give props to Sactown Royalty). Golden Mind of State holds the title for their Golden State Warriors blog. The blog held the America’s Next Biggest Warriors Fan Contest, all for a Warriors mascot doll. Make sure you read GSoM to follow the Warriors quest to the playoffs after the return of coach Don Nelson.
7. The Nugg Doctor (http://nuggdoctor.blogspot.com/)
No prescription is needed to enjoy the Nugg Doctor’s blog. Read the Doctor’s daily disection of the Denver Nuggets‘ roster and game play. And though its a little heavy on links and advertisements, you don’t have to be a Nuggets fan to enjoy this blog.
8. NBA Basketball and Other Unrelatedness (http://thehype.wordpress.com/)
Sure, the valuable content on Howie “the Hype”’s blog gets a little scarce, but daily doodles take a humorous side to the NBA scene. Also, check out of his development as a rec-league ref (the journery begins here).
9. Blog Maverick (http://blogmaverick.com)
Mark Cuban’s blog is probably visited more than any other on this list, and would be a strong bet for #1 if the owner of the Dallas Mavericks didn’t blog mostly about business. Still, who doesn’t enjoy reading about a multi-billionaire NBA owner trash-talk the refs and bring up proposals for the improvement of the league.
10. Daily Basketball (http://dailybasketball.com)
Okay, so maybe it’s a little bit of stretch…but feel free to bookmark this site and watch as we hopefully grow to the size of the other top NBA blogs listed above.
September 21, 2006 at 2:51 pm · Filed under NBA, Other
Los Angeles Lakers‘ fans were happy to hear that superstar Kobe Bryant is quickly strengthening his right knee that had required arthroscopic surgery. Bryant hasn’t been able to do much in the way of running yet, but expects to be ready for training camp within the next couple weeks.
Speedy Claxton fractured a bone in his hand while working out. The injury will keep Claxton off the court for the next five or six weeks. The Atlanta Hawks‘ GM Billy Knight expects a ” quick and full recovery”.
Bonzi Wells met with the Charlotte Bobcats to discuss possibly signing with the team. After an impressive playoff run against the Spurs, this offseason hasn’t been quite as lucrative as Wells hoped for. Wells and his agent also met with the Miami Heat, and there is a good chance he could sign with the defending champions.
Grant Hill is ready to make an another attempt at playing for the Orlando Magic. “I feel great now, and I want to stay healthy for an entire season.” Hill spent much of the summer in rehab.
For the first time in Duke Basketball’s history, there will be sophomore team captains. Sophomores Greg Paulus and Josh McRoberts were both named captains of the team, along with DeMarcus Nelson.
Though the NFL season has already begun, you still have the chance to join in on the Daily Basketball Fantasy Football league.
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