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Dan Shanoff is the founder of Quickish, which offers real-time news recommendations in quick-hit editor-vetted streams to help you keep up quickly with the big things that are happening. Previously, he was the creator and producer of the "Daily Quickie" at ESPN.com. He was the VP of Content for Associated Content (now Yahoo! Contributor Network), and had content development roles with Starwave/ESPN.com, the NFL and Sports Illustrated. He writes about sports, sports media and the business of sports at his blog, DanShanoff.com. He also created TimTeblog.com, which obsessively covered the Tim Tebow phenomenon in 2009 and 2010. He was an original editor of Real Fans Sports Network, funded and ultimately acquired by AOL in the mid-1990s.

Blog Entries by Dan Shanoff

Introducing My Son to MLB, Wrigley Field and His Fan DNA

Posted July 16, 2010 | 10:35:15 (EST)

Can you remember the first game you went to? I certainly can't. When you become a parent, it becomes this opportunity for you to experience that through your kid.

My older son, now 4, has been to a local (low-level D1) college basketball game and a

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Merry BCS-mas! Get The Griping Out Today

Posted December 7, 2009 | 15:34:25 (EST)

This column was originally published on DanShanoff.com.

Merry BCS-mas! (Yes, that's pronounced "BCS-mess.")

The Monday after the BCS pairings are announced has become the annual holiday for BCS-bashers -- "Texas?!"... "TCU and/or Cincinnati was screwed!"... "Fiesta THIS!"... "Playoff! PLAYOFF! PLAYOFF!!!!"

It's a little like the folks who complain Christmas...

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Making the BCS Slightly Less of a Mess

Posted December 4, 2009 | 14:20:26 (EST)

The reputation of college football's Bowl Championship Series (BCS) is so bad that the group finally went out and hired a PR firm to help. They recruited former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, who runs a communications company with prominent sports clients. Then they debuted a new Twitter feed...

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