SBNation & SLCDunk partner up with Yahoo! Sports

by Basketball John on Feb 24, 2009 9:30 PM MST in Site Notes

It's a big announcement for SBNation & SLCDunk.

We've begun a partnership with Yahoo! Sports to expand SLC Dunk's reach. This won't be just for SLC Dunk of course, but will be for all blogs on SBNation.

How's it going to work? Here's a quote from the official release,

Today we want to welcome some new members to our flourishing communities. SB Nation and our friends at Yahoo are partnering to give Yahoo Sports audiences one click access to our sites and content. In addition to being the largest sport property on the web, Yahoo Sports is known for some of the best general sports blogs including: Ball Don’t Lie, Puck Daddy, Dr. Saturday, Big League Stew and others.

Relevant pages of Yahoo Sports will now feature contextual links to specific SB Nation communities. Many other pages of Yahoo Sports will feature SB Nation content and links. The great news is that more sports fans will be introduced to SB Nation sites.

So when you visit Yahoo! team pages, you'll see a container of relevant stories on SLCDunk. Click here to check out the page for the Utah Jazz.

In the future, there will be links to game threads on SLCDunk and some other integration.

So what does all of this mean? First, welcome to all of the visitors from Yahoo!. I hope you'll stick around and participate here. You'll find some of the best discussions on the Jazz here that can be found on the net. It's simple to sign up and start posting by using your existing Yahoo! ID.

What about all of the existing users? First, thanks to everyone for reading SLC Dunk and more importantly, thanks for your contributions. Things will go on just like they have. We'll (hopefully) gain a lot more quality contributors that will add to our discussions.

You can also associate your SBNation login with your Yahoo! ID by visiting your settings page at http://www.sbnation.com/users/YourUserName/account and clicking on the "Associate a Yahoo! ID with your account" link. It's not required of course.

Anyway, that's it. If you have any questions, feel free to email me, basketballjohn @ gmail.com.

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Yahoo!

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Meh.

23 votes

Whatever the opposite of Yahoo! is.

2 votes

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Sounds great. There are some great Jazz blogs out there and this one fosters tons of good conversation. And classy contributors.

I love the general lack of potshotters and anonymous name callers.

The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear.

by clarkpojo on Feb 24, 2009 9:34 PM MST reply actions

And hopefully it will stay that way.

I think the people that post here now have set a good tone for the site. The good discussions influence new visitors to the site.

Of course you’ll always have people like Busta Bucket, but hopefully they’ll be few and far between. And if (when) things get bigger, we’ll have a good set of people to self-police the trolls and such.

SLCDunk.com, The Utah Jazz on SBNation

by Basketball John on Feb 24, 2009 9:50 PM MST up reply actions

this is my biggest concern

We have carved out a really respectful niche of commenters, fan writers and fanatics. And Danielle.

I really don’t want the tone of our comments to change. Wield the ban-hammer with might, o BBJ.

Uh, do you think you could draw me like a ninja?

by Shums on Feb 24, 2009 10:10 PM MST up reply actions

I don't anticipate having to do that much.

I think we’ll still be relatively small. But feel free to flag stuff in case I miss something.

SLCDunk.com, The Utah Jazz on SBNation

by Basketball John on Feb 25, 2009 1:27 PM MST up reply actions

Congratulations!

I found this site because it wasn’t blocked by the web nanny at the customer site I used to work at, and I love it. You do a great job BBJ and deserve the recognition.

by prodigal punk on Feb 24, 2009 10:07 PM MST reply actions