AOL Latino Launches Social-Network Sports Blog Fanaticos.com.Spanish-Language Sports Site Kicks off with Coverage of the Olympic Games Olympic games, premier athletic meeting of ancient Greece, and, in modern times, series of international sports contests. The Olympics of Ancient Greece Although records cannot verify games earlier than 776 B.C. in Beijing NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Latino, http://latino.aol.com, kicks off its coverage today of the Olympic Games in Beijing with the launch of Fanaticos.com, http://www.fanaticos.com, a sports blog destination written by a team of seasoned sports writers The following is a list of sports writers. Historical sportswriters
"Latinos are passionate about sports and their favorite teams, and Fanaticos offers them a culturally relevant, Spanish-language outlet for their opinions," said Miguel Ferrer Miguel Ferrer (born February 7, 1955) is a Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor who is often typecast in roles as a villain. Biography Early life , AOL Latino's Director of Programming. "In fact, Fanaticos bloggers and the community will define the tone and flavor of the site." Fanaticos content is comprised of nine leading sports bloggers, whose expertise provides varied viewpoints into this highly anticipated, global competition. Some bloggers include: * Pablo Seoane - a seasoned sports writer Noun 1. sports writer - a journalist who writes about sports sportswriter journalist - a writer for newspapers and magazines from Argentina with a history of covering Latin American sports trends and leading Latin American soccer tournaments such as Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamerica. * Juan Vene - has spent nearly 50 years covering baseball and is best known as Major League Baseball's voice "en espaSol". * Omar Porcayo - is a soccer fan and expert, who will cover the soccer games from Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi . In addition to the bloggers and content at launch, within the next six months users of Fanaticos.com will find dedicated team and player pages for fAtbol (soccer). These pages will include biographies, Relegence news feeds on players, blog postings and editorial articles on the individual players. In addition, Fanaticos.com will be launching a video search hub powered by Truveo and expects to add more bloggers. Fanaticos.com was modeled after the popular AOL Sports, http://sports.aol.com, site FanHouse.com, http://fanhouse.com, which recently received an EPpy Award for Best Sports Blog1. AOL Latino recently expanded into Latin America with AOL Mexico, AOL Argentina, AOL Colombia, AOL Chile, and AOL Venezuela. In the U.S., AOL Latino is the leading bilingual portal for Hispanics with more than 1.5 million unique visitors, according to the June 2008 comScore MediaMetrix. In addition, the site's page views have increased 88% year over year2. About AOL Latino AOL Latino, http://latino.aol.com, is the award-winning bilingual portal for U.S. Hispanics that provides comprehensive Spanish language products and services including free email, instant messaging, photo sharing, and English classes. The service also offers U.S. and Latin American news, financial tools, the latest in music and entertainment, personal finance, sports, fashion and beauty, as well as access to all the existing content available on AOL, http://www.aol.com. About AOL AOL is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs one of the largest Internet access businesses in the U.S. and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control and its subsidiaries have operations in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com. 1 Editor & Publisher Magazine, EPpy Award, April 2008 2 comScore MediaMetrix, June 2008; comScore Latino category is custom built based on a self-selected competitor list. |
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