Comments on: Listen up, (college) sports fans …

By: sports

sports — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:03:24 +0000

Check this.The Crazies stand courtside in a 1,200 seat student section and begin cheering during warmups. Many Crazies paint their faces or bodies white and blue and wear Duke paraphernalia to represent their team. Throughout the game, the Crazies jump up and down when the opposing team has possession of the ball and yell cheers in unison at focal points of the game

By: Hunter

Hunter — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:38:36 +0000

Personally I think this is a great move and I hope that the people who have att (formerly sbc) yahoo dsl can get access to the site with their premium memberships.

The acquisition is great because college sports tracking is right behind the NFL IMO and i think that this well help increase yahoo sports since it is pretty pathetic.

By: Brian Ussery

Brian Ussery — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:10:03 +0000

Go UGA Bulldogs and Go Yahoo.com!

By: Shahid

Shahid — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:42:42 +0000

I am very aware of Rivals.com. You are talking a small segment with few users. Yahoo has gone this route in the past. Yahoo has tried to collect small sites like this inorder to create a larger network. There in lies your problem, this goes right back into how Yahoo tends to spread itself far too thin. Yahoo needs to focus on its core strategies and what they are not doing effectively. Yahoo had a huge lead over Google a while back, now Google is worth approximately 4x Yahoo and continues to grow even faster. Think of it as Walmart vs. Kmart just a few decades back. Kmart’s lack of aggressive action and poor management destroyed the company and now Walmart is enormous. Kmart had the lead but their poor management destroyed their potential. You have to be innovative and you have to understand what you are doing. Yahoo is probably one of the most ineffective companies at capturing growth in their segment. Imagine having the lead in the internet as the internet emerged and imagine losing that so quickly because of several bad mistakes because of a simple lack of foresight. I am simply suggesting that Yahoo needs to sell this company to a much more intelligent group of people.

By: Gamecock Fan

Gamecock Fan — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:12:54 +0000

Shahid is obviously not very familar with Rivals. It’s a very strong and exceptionally fast growing company. This is a great move by Yahoo (and for Rivals too). Bigtime synergy in my opinion.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:56:55 +0000

I disagreee Shahid! This IS a good move for Yahoo! Sports — Yahoo needs to move the college and high school crowds to its sites!!

By: Shahid

Shahid — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:37:56 +0000

Another stupid move by management!

It’s not hard to see what is going on. It’s now getting to the point where Yahoo will make any acquisition it can. What is the development team at Yahoo actually doing? What has Yahoo created in the past few years that is valuable? How does rivals.com help revenues?

Again, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE sell this company where there is a management team that knows what they are doing. These meaningless and overpriced acquisitions will not solve Yahoo’s problems. Don’t you understand that, acquiring Rivals.com is just another example of what Yahoo has done wrong over the past 5 years.