FanHouse was a sports website owned byAOL. Launched in September 2006, FanHouse ceased operations in 2011. During its run, the website was ranked as one of the Internet's top-10 most linked sports blogs.
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Upon its 2006 launch, it became the first sports blog to pay many sports bloggers a per-post fee.
In January 2009, FanHouse began hiring experienced print journalists, includingJay Mariotti of theChicago Sun-Times,Kevin Blackistone of theDallas Morning News, andLisa Olson of theNew York Daily News. FanHouse continued to bolster its roster, hiring writers away from theOrlando Sentinel,Atlanta Journal-Constitution andContra Costa Times, among others. FanHouse kept its stable of traditional bloggers as well, including widely published Michael David Smith andElie Seckbach.
FanHouse was managed by executive producer Randy Kim. Previous executive producers later held leadership positions atYahoo! (Jamie Mottram),Yardbarker (Alana Nguyen) andNBC (John Clifford Ness).
In January 2011,Sporting News announced a partnership with AOL to take over editorial control of FanHouse; the site was merged into that ofSporting News, and eventually discontinued.[1]
FanHouse was ranked as one of the Internet's top-10 most linked sports blogs, as measured by aggregatorBallHype, from at least April 2007[2] to July 2010,[3] just four weeks before BallHype was shut down and the list was no longer updated.[4]
At the 2008EPPY Awards, FanHouse won for Best Sports Blog,[5] and was named as a finalist for the award in 2009.[6]
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