ArmchairGM aims to be the ultimate community of sports fans -- a place where fans of games ranging from baseball and football to auto racing and mixed martial arts can congregate around a common theme: Fans rule.

The site uses MediaWiki -- the software that powers Wikipedia -- to create a community where fans can write and publish their own thoughts and vote on those of others. They can rate posts, players and teams, and they can join groups of other fans built around a player or topic.

According to ComScore, 70% of ArmchairGM's readers are male, and 74% have a household income of $60,000+.

Following college graduation in 2005, Dave Finocchio, Zander Freund, Bryan Goldberg and Dave Nemetz began piecing together an idea to build a free, open sports network, driven by thousands of fan experts who see things the pros often miss. Today, Bleacher Report is the web's leading provider of high-quality editorial sports content, with nearly 4,000 new articles published by 800 different writers in March 2008 alone. The site is booming and recently passed the 500K unique monthly visitors mark. For the diehard sports fan who is interested in reading a range of diverse perspectives on a variety of leagues and teams, today's mainstream media too often falls short. Bleacher Report delivers the broad, comprehensive coverage passionate fans want. Having launched out of beta in February 2008, Bleacher Report is rapidly emerging as the driving force in new sports media.

HockeyBuzz.com provides an instant one-stop resource for the latest hockey news. "Eklund," a pseudonymous hockey insider, has assembled dozens of contributors, including media hockey beat writers, players, officials, and other long time hockey insiders. Launched on Sept. 15, 2005, HockeyBuzz has watched its traffic grow exponentially. Of the 4 major sports in North America, hockey uses the internet more than any other medium to get information to its fans — and HockeyBuzz.com is the informal leader. Eklund and HockeyBuzz have been featured on the Jim Rome show, Newsweek magazine, The New England Sports Network, and dozens of radio stations across the U.S. and Canada — and have been a mainstay on XM Radio's Home Ice 24 hour hockey Channel.

PROTRADE - The Sports Stock Market

PROTRADE is a passionate community of highly engaged sports fans who trade athletes like stocks and compete against fellow fans in fantasy-style games. The community also creates unique content based on the sports stock market. The team behind PROTRADE consists of sports media executives, MIT statisticians and economists, sports agents and leading pro-sports figures. PROTRADE's dynamic content is syndicated to TV broadcasters and other sports media companies and the company partners with the NFLPA, NBA, and MLB.com.

SB Nation (Sports Blogs Nation) is the premier network of more than 110 primarily team-centric sports blogs of, by and for fans. There are Baseball, Hockey, Football, College, Soccer, Golf, NASCAR, Boxing, and Fitness blogs that comprise the nation of sports blogs.

The New York Times, Wired News and CNET have praised SB Nation's breadth, and Time Magazine picked it as one of the 50 Coolest Websites.

SportsBlogs Nation is the online destination for sports fans, because it caters to every fan equally — whether you root for the Yankees or the Kansas City Royals. It's where fans go to gather with other fans and bloggers to discuss their favorite team or sport.

SB Nation reaches the most educated, dedicated sports fans in the world.

Watercooler enables fans to connect with other fans in Sports communities inside their favorite social networks. With tens of millions of registered fans on the Watercooler platform, Watercooler operates the largest Sports application suites on Facebook, Bebo, and Friendster. Watercooler makes connecting with your friends, family, and other fans of your favorite Sports teams more compelling than ever before.

Created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Wikia extends wikipedia by making structured, high-value content on the internet free to the world. Wikia is run by passionate volunteers, who constantly create and update information that people care about on more than 2,000 topics — including technology, movies, videogames, city guides and sports. Wikia has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine and the New York Times. And it's comfortably within Alexa's top 1,000.

YaoMingMania.com was the first Web site dedicated to Yao Ming -- one of the world's most popular athletes -- and is the top site visited by people wanting to learn anything about Yao. Created in May 2002 before he was even drafted by the Houston Rockets, the site (converted to a blog in 2006) provides objective commentary on all that is happening with Yao on the court game-by-game, as well as off the court. Fans of Yao and the Rockets also get to trade their thoughts in the site's popular and highly spirited discussion forum.

John B. -- the author and creator of the site since Day 1 -- is a 30+ year fan and follower of the Rockets. With his deep knowledge of the franchise's history, he frequently provides perspectives on how today's team compares to great Rocket teams from the past, celebrates today's team successes, and criticizes them when deserved.