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Sports PR Weekly Roundup, January 11 Edition

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Below are recent articles and blog posts that deal with sport business, public relations, writing tips, and career tips. Did I miss one? Please share in the comments section!

  • PR in Sports lists five social media tips for professional athletes.
  • ESPN will launch ESPN 3D, which is the first for TV, blogs Awful Announcing.
  • FootieBusiness.com interviewed Alex Gallegos of Chivas. The post also references other interviews the blog has done with marketing professionals in the MLS.
  • The New York Times writes that “the N.B.A. made unavailable a picture of Gilbert Arenas of the Washington Wizards, who was joking with his teammates by shooting them with his fingers pointed like guns” and then comments on how this decision by the league fits in with others struggling to deal with new technology.
  • The Atlantic argues that newspaper articles have gotten too long these days.
  • AOL Fanhouse takes a look at the decade of the sports blog.
  • Fang’s Bites lists the 12 sports media stories of 2009.
  • I’ve mentioned previously here on SPRB that ESPN created localized sports websites, starting with ESPNChicago.com. Well, The Bristol Press reports that these local websites have been more successful than imagined.
  • Back in late December, The New York Times wrote that TMZ plans to expand with its own sports site.

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