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"ESPN founder Bill Rassmussen has launched a college network for sports fans, called CollegeFanz.  The site is a place for fans to keep up with their favorite sports teams, focusing on Division II and III schools that are largely under-represented, and share photos and videos with friends.\nFor your profile you get a dorm room, which you can outfit with various items, like  laptop or a backpack for your desk.  Change other items like your bed sheets and pick a color for your wall.  You'd think that this customizable dorm room profile would be the perfect place to offer sports team branding opportunities, like choosing a poster for your wall to represent favorite school, or adding various widgets, but that's not the case with CollegeFanz\u2014at least not yet.  \nThe other networking options on the site are few and far between, making it difficult to find other users that aren't in your personal network via invitation.  For instance, the Sports Talk section of the site lets you create your own show which can be broadcast\u2014just not on CollegeFanz.  The Sports Talk feature is outsourced to a third party, along with a good portion of other features on the site.  Further, there's no way to integrate these third party features back onto CollegeFanz.  You can even get a free conference call number to chat with your friends (also outsourced).  I'm curious to know why CollegeFanz is encouraging you to network with others offline, instead of providing better networking opportunities within its community.  What this site is best at is directing traffic away from its network.  \nThere are sports features on the site, too, though they're not the in depth offerings you'll find on dedicated sports sites, and lack variety across sports and schools.  In order to gain full access to the content, you'll reportedly have to pay $4.95 per month. Another lackluster sports network launched by high profile individuals in the industry is YouBeQB.\n[via  webpronews]\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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