SB Nation is the largest and fastest-growing network of fan-centric online sports communities. From the beginning, we've focused on developing the highest quality grassroots sports sites on the web—recruiting only the most respected bloggers and writers to build their communities at SB Nation and empowering passionate fans to engage in the conversation.
We take a different approach to online sports media. We offer over 275 distinct team and sport-specific sites, covering every major pro and college program in the U.S. and Canada as well as non-team sports like NASCAR, MMA and Golf. Each site is devoted to an individual team, sport or league—like Bleedcubbieblue.com for the Cubs, BurntOrangeNation.com for the Longhorns, ArrowheadPride.com for the Chiefs or WaggleRoom.com for golf—and has its own writers, logos, team colors and community flavor, reflecting unique team traditions and fan spirit.
In a world where media companies are slashing their editorial coverage, no one matches SB Nation's commitment to serve fans so deeply or broadly.
Sports fans are generally not "fans of sports", but rather fans of individual teams or certain non-team sports. Unlike other sports media companies, we don't clump all sports fans onto one brand platform; doing so would water down the fan experience. If there is a team or sports topic that has a rabid fan following, we'll recruit the best possible writers and community managers to operate a site dedicated to providing content and cultivating a moderated (safe and friendly) community.
Each site is best in class, and is usually the largest unofficial fan destination for that tribe. Each brand is guaranteed to be the single most authentic destination for their fans on the web. The result is an environment that fosters intelligent content, conversation, social interaction and relationships among people who share a common devotion.
Our flagship site, SBNation.com, covers sports stories that rise to national significance. With our innovative StoryStream™ approach, every story is a blog. Fans receive all important news updates and opinions the moment they break from all relevant sources — all delivered with the same engaging fan voices and conversation that characterize our individual sport and team sites. With a staff of over 40 editors, researchers and contributors, SBNation.com has become essential reading for sports consumers of all profiles.
In June 2010 SB Nation launched SB Nation Regional, the most ambitious and exciting sports media initiative of the year. With state-of-the-art StoryStream™ news delivery, opinion and analysis, feature columns and unique editorial franchises, these regional sites capture all that is relevant in regional sports. A daily must-read for fans of a particular sports market, these sites build on the success and focus of SB Nation team blogs, and are poised to become the next local sports page. SB Nation Regional now includes a total of 21 regions from every corner of the country.
SB Nation was born through the passion of a frustrated sports fan who used to be a print reporter. He felt like no traditional media outlet was covering his team the way that he wanted, which was with a passionate, authoritative voice that would also remain true to a lot of the journalistic principles. In short, professional quality, fan perspective.
We firmly believe that sports objectivity is a myth. We've always been forthcoming about the fact that we're relentlessly passionate about the teams and sports we cover. Across the SB Nation network you'll find that our writers live and breathe sports 24/7/365.
We capture that passion and enable conversation about prevalent topics that fans care about. We've created strong communities that teem with intelligent conversation, and we remain passionate and emotionally invested along with our audience in the sports we cover. This network was created by fans for fans, and that remains core to our editorial principles.
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