Jeff Roberts
Jan 24, 2012 11:42 AM
Gannett (NYSE: GCI) Co. has bought The Big Lead and a family of other sports blogs. The company hopes the acquisition, when combined with its existing USA Today properties, will vault it into the major leagues of the online sports scene.
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Staci D. Kramer
Oct 31, 2011 10:19 PM
As of Tuesday, SB Nation no longer stands alone. The sports site, which has grown from a federation of sports blogs to a prominent network and sports hub, will joined by The Verge, a personal tech site from Joshua Topolsky and the team that once pumped energy into Engadget. It’s…
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Staci D. Kramer
Apr 4, 2011 1:50 AM
We have an answer to the tech publishing world’s version of And Then There Were None: the core team formerly known as Engadget has surfaced as the expansion franchise for SB Nation. Jim Bankoff, CEO of the DC-based startup, has had expansion to new verticals in mind from the start.…
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David Kaplan
Mar 3, 2011 12:03 PM
A few months after taking a $10.5 million funding round, sports blog network SB Nation has made two acquisitions that will broaden its coverage of college sports and international soccer, said the company’s CEO Jim Bankoff in an appearance at the paidContent 2011 conference at the Times Center this morning.
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David Kaplan
Jul 21, 2010 9:06 AM
Even while fan-based SB Nation is in the middle of launching 20 regional sports sites, the company has now acquired The Sporting Blog from Sporting News. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
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Staci D. Kramer
Jun 7, 2010 12:32 AM
With minimal additional investment and no extra hires, fan-based SB Nation is launching 20 new regional sports sites during the next few weeks. The first six went live after midnight: New York, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Arizona and DC, where the startup is based. The look is similar; all are based…
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Tameka Kee
Jan 15, 2009 8:56 AM
Sports blogging network SB Nation raised $5 million in financing from Accel Partners and Allen & Co., according to VentureWire. The company wouldn’t confirm the news. CEO Jim Bankoff, former content head of AOL (NYSE: TWX), discussed the funding at our EconSports conference in October, but didn’t disclose the amount.…
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