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                        <title>NCAA Football Calling All Bloggers</title>
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                        <description>NCAA Football is launching it&#039;s first ever official blog intending to create a vibrant  online community where passionate college football fans can participate in discussions about their favorite conference, team or football issue, enjoy video of classic games &#38; bloopers as well as guest celebrity bloggers like Notre Dame&#039;s Charlie Weis, Tennesse&#039;s Phillip Fulmer and Mack Brown the coach of the reigning national champion Texas Longhorns.The &#8220;Every Game Counts&#8221; blog is slated to become the gateway to all things NCAA Football. <a href="http://www.EveryGameCounts.blogspot.com" onclick="linkClick( this.href );"  target="_blank" title="Every Game Counts blog">Every Game Counts blog</a> launches August 31,2006. [PRWeb Aug 24, 2006]</description>
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                        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:54:35 -0700</pubDate>
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Charlotte, NC and Lexington, KY (PRWEB) August 24, 2006 -- <a href="http://www.ncaafootball.com" onclick="linkClick( this.href );"  target="_blank" title="NCAA Football">NCAA Football</a> is reaching out to bloggers within the Internet community with the launching of its first ever interactive blog on ncaafootball.com.

NCAA Football has partnered with Sports Media Challenge to create an online community where bloggers can participate in discussions about their favorite conference, team or football issue, enjoy video of classic games &#38; bloopers as well as audio clips from top coaches.  The  http:www.EveryGameCounts.blogspot.com [&#8220;Every Game Counts&#8221; blog intends to become the gateway to all things NCAA Football.

&#8220;NCAA Football&#8217;s charge is celebrating all of college football and our new blog is a contemporary way that we can reach out to fans and enlist them to perpetuate the NCAA Football brand, &#8221; said Executive Director of <a href="http://www.ncaafootball.com" onclick="linkClick( this.href );"  target="_blank" title="NCAA Football">NCAA Football</a> David Bertram. &#8220;On September first the Every Game Counts blog will enlist our most zealous fans, and reach out to young new fans with a fun and interactive forum.&#8221;

The <a href="http://www.EveryGameCounts.blogspot.com" onclick="linkClick( this.href );"  target="_blank" title="NCAA Football blog">NCAA Football blog</a> will attract fans with:
-Celebrity Guest Bloggers &#8211; Among the game&#8217;s brightest stars to already commit to  guest blogging throughout the season are National Champion Texas Coach Mack Brown, Tennessee&#8217;s Phillip Fulmer, &#38; Notre Dame&#8217;s  Charlie Weis;
Next-generation head coaches on the &#8220;Must Watch&#8221; list will chime in as well.
-platform for fans to discuss &#38; learn about upcoming games, events &#38; NCAA Football programs.   
-Featured audio and video of classic games, bloopers, coaches&#8217; interviews etc.
-Fun interaction showcasing fan spirit from favorite tailgating recipes to cheerleaders and the best of the bands.
-Links to stories offsite regaling the best of college football.

NCAA Football  fans are among the most avid and loyal in all of sports. Since online word-of- mouth is built on a sense of community and passion a blog made perfect sense. Passion and community are part of the essence of college football and Fan Generated Media&#8482; about the game is everywhere on the web. The NCAA Football&#8217;s  <a href="http://www.EveryGameCounts.blogspot.com" onclick="linkClick( this.href );"  target="_blank" title="Every Game Counts blog">Every Game Counts blog</a> promises to engage college football  fans of all ages.&#8221; said Sports Media Challenge President Kathleen Hessert. &#8220;Our goal is to create a virtual stadium where the college game is king every day of the week and fans can share their passion.  &#8220;Every Game Counts&#8221; will quickly become a regular stop for fans around the globe to gab about all things football and add their perspective on its legacy. This promises to be the ultimate interactive site for NCAA Football fans.&#8221;

A recent report found that 50 million Americans and about 30 percent of the total U.S. Internet population visited blogs in the first quarter of 2005.  &#8220;While blog audiences continue to grow dramatically, the variety of demographics make them most appealing,&#8221; continued Bertram. &#8220;The combination of emotion, opinion and expression has tremendous power to affect our brand reputation and we understand and embrace that. The Every Game Counts blog is the coolest way to listen to and engage the fans who are so... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/football/bloggers/prweb428494.htm]]></content:encoded>
                        <itunes:author>Harold Kaufman</itunes:author>
                        <itunes:subtitle>NCAA Football Calling All Bloggers</itunes:subtitle>
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Charlotte, NC and Lexington, KY (PRWEB) August 24, 2006 -- <a href="http://www.ncaafootball.com" onclick="linkClick( this.href );"  target="_blank" title="NCAA Football">NCAA Football</a> is reaching out to bloggers within the Internet community with the launching of its first ever interactive blog on ncaafootball.com.

NCAA Football has partnered with Sports Media Challenge to create an online community where bloggers can participate in discussions about their favorite conference, team or football issue, enjoy video of classic games &#38; bloopers as well as audio clips from top coaches.  The  http:www.EveryGameCounts.blogspot.com [&#8220;Every Game Counts&#8221; blog intends to become the gateway to all things NCAA Football.

&#8220;NCAA Football&#8217;s charge is celebrating all of college football and our new blog is a contemporary way that we can reach out to fans and enlist them to perpetuate the NCAA Football brand, &#8221; said Executive Director of <a href="http://www.ncaafootball.com" onclick="linkClick( this.href );"  target="_blank" title="NCAA Football">NCAA Football</a> David Bertram. &#8220;On September first the Every Game Counts blog will enlist our most zealous fans, and reach out to young new fans with a fun and interactive forum.&#8221;

The <a href="http://www.EveryGameCounts.blogspot.com" onclick="linkClick( this.href );"  target="_blank" title="NCAA Football blog">NCAA Football blog</a> will attract fans with:
-Celebrity Guest Bloggers &#8211; Among the game&#8217;s brightest stars to already commit to  guest blogging throughout the season are National Champion Texas Coach Mack Brown, Tennessee&#8217;s Phillip Fulmer, &#38; Notre Dame&#8217;s  Charlie Weis;
Next-generation head coaches on the &#8220;Must Watch&#8221; list will chime in as well.
-platform for fans to discuss &#38; learn about upcoming games, events &#38; NCAA Football programs.   
-Featured audio and video of classic games, bloopers, coaches&#8217; interviews etc.
-Fun interaction showcasing fan spirit from favorite tailgating recipes to cheerleaders and the best of the bands.
-Links to stories offsite regaling the best of college football.

NCAA Football  fans are among the most avid and loyal in all of sports. Since online word-of- mouth is built on a sense of community and passion a blog made perfect sense. Passion and community are part of the essence of college football and Fan Generated Media&#8482; about the game is everywhere on the web. The NCAA Football&#8217;s  <a href="http://www.EveryGameCounts.blogspot.com" onclick="linkClick( this.href );"  target="_blank" title="Every Game Counts blog">Every Game Counts blog</a> promises to engage college football  fans of all ages.&#8221; said Sports Media Challenge President Kathleen Hessert. &#8220;Our goal is to create a virtual stadium where the college game is king every day of the week and fans can share their passion.  &#8220;Every Game Counts&#8221; will quickly become a regular stop for fans around the globe to gab about all things football and add their perspective on its legacy. This promises to be the ultimate interactive site for NCAA Football fans.&#8221;

A recent report found that 50 million Americans and about 30 percent of the total U.S. Internet population visited blogs in the first quarter of 2005.  &#8220;While blog audiences continue to grow dramatically, the variety of demographics make them most appealing,&#8221; continued Bertram. &#8220;The combination of emotion, opinion and expression has tremendous power to affect our brand reputation and we understand and embrace that. The Every Game Counts blog is the coolest way to listen to and engage the fans who are so... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/football/bloggers/prweb428494.htm]]></itunes:summary>

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                        <title>NCAA Football Inks Deal for Buzz Manager Online Monitoring  Service</title>
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                        <description>NCAA Football chooses Buzz Manager to mine, monitor and analyze online Fan-Generated Media in recognition of the explosion of fan activity on blogs, chat rooms and social networking sites and in an attempt to measure fan passion for the game and awareness of the brand. [PRWeb Aug 17, 2006]</description>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:42:16 -0700</pubDate>
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                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[Charlotte, North Carolina,  Lexington, Kentucky (PRWEB) August 17, 2006 -- NCAA Football has enlisted the services of Sports Media Challenge and it&#8217;s leading-edge Internet monitoring service Buzz Manager&#8482; to mine, monitor and analyze online Fan-Generated Media&#8482;. Throughout the season and through the help of Buzz Manager, NCAA Football will listen to what fans are saying about the college game to broaden and strengthen its base with people of all ages. 

Buzz Manager, designed specifically for the sports, entertainment and lifestyle marketplaces, is an online business intelligence tool to protect and enhance sports brands. In conjunction with Sports Media Challenge&#8217;s proprietary search engine, expert analysts who understand the nuance of sports will track and analyze the NCAA Football brand and relevant issues across the Internet for PR, marketing and sponsorship purposes. 

&#8220;Our focus is to increase interest in the game through targeted grassroots, promotional and interactive programs,&#8221; said NCAA Football Executive David Bertram. &#8220;Sports Media Challenge is well-known and respected in the college sports arena. Through Buzz Manager and their other leading-edge online initiatives we&#8217;ll get a unique and valuable window to our fans.&#8221; 

Buzz Manager provides quantitative and qualitative results enabling clients to measure brand resonance in the marketplace.  The Buzz Manager service collects, archives and analyzes relevant data drawn from millions of online word of mouth comments from thousands of fan forums, blogs, discussions and social networking sites then analyze them for the Executive Dashboard Report. The Report available online or delivered to PDA&#8217;s or via e-mail detail the real-time Buzz Rating, Exposure Rating and Trends. &#8220;We&#8217;re taking the pulse of NCAA Football,&#8221; said Sports Media Challenge President, Kathleen Hessert. &#8220;We know sports. And through our Buzz Manager service we&#8217;ll be able to determine who&#8217;s talking about the game, where they&#8217;re talking, what issues they care about most, and how passionate those fans are.&#8221; 

Buzz Manager tracks mentions in Fan Generated Media&#8482; as well as mainstream media and differentiates between the two for clear comparison. The service provides actionable information for sports organizations and advertisers to make better informed decisions about their brands. 

In addition to monitoring the overall NCAA Football brand, the service will also track sub-brands like the launch of the exciting new NCAA Football Mobile service. The free service will provide up to the minute scores, highlights and news throughout the season.

&#8220;College Football fans are the most loyal in all of sports and Buzz Manager(TM) will enable NCAA Football to measure what fans are saying about college football, its programs, events and products,&#8221; said Hessert. &#8220;The NCAA Football alliance is aggressively developing promotional and marketing initiatives to tap into fan passions and we&#8217;re thrilled to be associated with this exciting brand.&#8221;

On August 31st, Sports Media Challenge will also launch the first-ever NCAA Football blog to provide a platform for fans to celebrate the game, learn about upcoming events, programs and to engage them in online discussions about the NCAA Football brand. Guest celebrity bloggers will include among others, University of Notre Dame&#8217;s Charlie Weiss, Phillip Fulmer of Tennessee as well as the coach of the reigning national champions, Texas&#8217; Mack Brown, 

&#8220;A blog is a great resource to engage fans and identify evangelists who will help... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/ncaa/football/prweb425782.htm]]></content:encoded>
                        <itunes:author>Kathleen Hessert</itunes:author>
                        <itunes:subtitle>NCAA Football Inks Deal for Buzz Manager Online Monitoring  Service</itunes:subtitle>
                        <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte, North Carolina,  Lexington, Kentucky (PRWEB) August 17, 2006 -- NCAA Football has enlisted the services of Sports Media Challenge and it&#8217;s leading-edge Internet monitoring service Buzz Manager&#8482; to mine, monitor and analyze online Fan-Generated Media&#8482;. Throughout the season and through the help of Buzz Manager, NCAA Football will listen to what fans are saying about the college game to broaden and strengthen its base with people of all ages. 

Buzz Manager, designed specifically for the sports, entertainment and lifestyle marketplaces, is an online business intelligence tool to protect and enhance sports brands. In conjunction with Sports Media Challenge&#8217;s proprietary search engine, expert analysts who understand the nuance of sports will track and analyze the NCAA Football brand and relevant issues across the Internet for PR, marketing and sponsorship purposes. 

&#8220;Our focus is to increase interest in the game through targeted grassroots, promotional and interactive programs,&#8221; said NCAA Football Executive David Bertram. &#8220;Sports Media Challenge is well-known and respected in the college sports arena. Through Buzz Manager and their other leading-edge online initiatives we&#8217;ll get a unique and valuable window to our fans.&#8221; 

Buzz Manager provides quantitative and qualitative results enabling clients to measure brand resonance in the marketplace.  The Buzz Manager service collects, archives and analyzes relevant data drawn from millions of online word of mouth comments from thousands of fan forums, blogs, discussions and social networking sites then analyze them for the Executive Dashboard Report. The Report available online or delivered to PDA&#8217;s or via e-mail detail the real-time Buzz Rating, Exposure Rating and Trends. &#8220;We&#8217;re taking the pulse of NCAA Football,&#8221; said Sports Media Challenge President, Kathleen Hessert. &#8220;We know sports. And through our Buzz Manager service we&#8217;ll be able to determine who&#8217;s talking about the game, where they&#8217;re talking, what issues they care about most, and how passionate those fans are.&#8221; 

Buzz Manager tracks mentions in Fan Generated Media&#8482; as well as mainstream media and differentiates between the two for clear comparison. The service provides actionable information for sports organizations and advertisers to make better informed decisions about their brands. 

In addition to monitoring the overall NCAA Football brand, the service will also track sub-brands like the launch of the exciting new NCAA Football Mobile service. The free service will provide up to the minute scores, highlights and news throughout the season.

&#8220;College Football fans are the most loyal in all of sports and Buzz Manager(TM) will enable NCAA Football to measure what fans are saying about college football, its programs, events and products,&#8221; said Hessert. &#8220;The NCAA Football alliance is aggressively developing promotional and marketing initiatives to tap into fan passions and we&#8217;re thrilled to be associated with this exciting brand.&#8221;

On August 31st, Sports Media Challenge will also launch the first-ever NCAA Football blog to provide a platform for fans to celebrate the game, learn about upcoming events, programs and to engage them in online discussions about the NCAA Football brand. Guest celebrity bloggers will include among others, University of Notre Dame&#8217;s Charlie Weiss, Phillip Fulmer of Tennessee as well as the coach of the reigning national champions, Texas&#8217; Mack Brown, 

&#8220;A blog is a great resource to engage fans and identify evangelists who will help... To read the press release in full goto http://www.prweb.com/releases/ncaa/football/prweb425782.htm]]></itunes:summary>

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