News: FanSpot a MySpace for sports enthusiasts

News/Social Networks/Web Culture/Sue Doyle
Found on: dailynews.com

Among MySpace.com, Friendster.com and other hip Internet venues that have tapped into the social-networking scene, a new Web site has recently emerged that aims for the same connection - through sports.

FanSpot.com brings sports fanatics, sports rivals and sports enthusiasts to its site to gab and jab about teams and athletes they love and hate. Launched in late July, the site so far has about 1,800 registered users, including some from Santa Clarita, who take verbal shots at one another on personal Web pages about their positions on local and national teams.

"We view it as MySpace meets a sports bar meets talk radio," said Elon Werner, director of communications for Beckett Media LP, the Texas-based sports publishing company that created the site.

From FANSPOT website:

About Fanspot

Fanspot is an online service that allows our members to set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together through a network of sports fans. Fanspot members can view each others' profiles, communicate with others, share photos, post comments, describe their sports interests and participate in various levels of challenges. Fanspot members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.