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Ballhype is a new sports news and social networking site to enable users to find and communicate with other fans that follow the same teams.

Ballhype tracks 1846 sports blogs covering baseball, basketball, football, soccer, hockey, and other sports., then analyzes each post for relevance and influence. Users can also submit a link to a story that they’ve found or write their own article on Ballhype.

With BallHype, you can:

1. Track stories about your favorite teams and players
2. Submit or hype up the stories you think are insightful, important—or just plain funny
3. Talk sports with other fans who won’t ever get bored
4. Prove you could make it in Vegas in the weekly game picks and Playoffs Pick’em contests
5. Make friends … or get yours to join so that you can track their stories, votes, and comments
6. Set up groups to run contests, talk sports, and track each others’ stories, votes and comments

Ballhype offers fans a much greater ability to customize the content to match their interests. The voting feature is Digg-like, users can add sports stories and other users vote those stories up or down, and add comments. For more info on Ballhype’s capabilities, watch the Ballhype Demo at http://ballhype.com/help/demo/.

Ballhype really makes it easy for all of the sports fans out there who want to keep up but don’t have all day to goof off online. Visit Ballhype at http://ballhype.com, it is currently in beta and welcoming newcomers to participate.