FanHouse is a sports website owned by AOL

AOL

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. Launched in September 2006, FanHouse is considered the Internet's most linked sports blog by aggregator BallHype, won Editor & Publisher

Editor & Publisher

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's 2008 EPpy Award for "Best Sports Blog", and was named as a finalist for the award in 2009.

In January 2009, FanHouse began hiring experienced print journalists, including Jay Mariotti

Jay Mariotti

Jay Mariotti is a former national columnist for Fanhouse.com and has done work as a panelist on the ESPN show Around the Horn.-Life and career:...

 of the Chicago Sun-Times, Kevin Blackistone

Kevin Blackistone

Kevin B. Blackistone is a columnist for Fanhouse.com, also a frequent panelist for ESPN's Around the Horn and on Sundays for Comcast's Redskins Postgame Live. On radio, he appears as a frequent guest cohost on the Sports Reporters on DC's ESPN980.-Career:He was born in Washington, D.C...

 of the Dallas Morning News, and Lisa Olson

Lisa Olson

Lisa Olson is an American sportswriter and a national sports columnist for AOL Fanhouse. Her work has been featured in the anthology, "The Best American Sports Writing"...

 of the New York Daily News. FanHouse has continued to bolster its roster, hiring writers away from the Orlando Sentinel, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Contra Costa Times, among others. FanHouse kept its stable of traditional bloggers as well, including widely published Michael David Smith

Michael David Smith

Michael David Smith is a writer based in Chicago. In 2007 he was named Mainstream Media Sports Blogger of the Year by Sports Illustrated.Smith is best known for his work at the AOL FanHouse on MMA. He has also written for The New York Times, The New York Sun, ESPN the Magazine, Fox Sports, Football...

 and Elie Seckbach

Elie Seckbach

Elie Seckbach is a sports writer who has been covering the NBA since 1997.His unconventional style is loved by his fans who check in on a daily basis to see what’s the latest on his “reeeporting.”. Elie covers everything from boxing to basketball....

. Upon its 2006 launch, it became the first sports blog to pay a large number of sports bloggers a per-post fee.

FanHouse is managed by executive producer Randy Kim. Previous executive producers have moved on to leadership positions at Yahoo!

Yahoo!

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 (Jamie Mottram), Yardbarker

Yardbarker

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 (Alana Nguyen) and NBC

NBC

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 (John Clifford Ness). Many FanHouse bloggers have also moved on to other publications.

In January 2011, FanHouse was replaced by Sporting News. FanHouse remained as as section of the new website.