On Monday, TheBusinessOfSports.com released the finalists for the inaugural “The Business of Sports Awards.” As explained on their website, the awards serve to highlight the best in sports business content: “Unlike other sports business awards that recognize the people working within specific organizations, the goal for these awards is to recognize those individuals, companies and websites that create and share the best sports business content and provide the most benefit for the rest of the sports industry.” The Sports Business Exchange team was nominated in two categories. The Sports Business Exchange (journal) was nominated for “Best Alternative Sports Business Content.” Joshua Duboff, TSBX’s Founder, was nominated for “Best Sports Business Up and Comer.” Below is a complete list of finalists in both categories:

Best Sports Business Up and Comer
-Ash Read
-Christopher Lee
-Jon Kander
-Josh Feinberg
-Joshua Duboff
-Peter V. Amador
-Amanda Miller

Best Alternative Sports Business Content
-Sports Business Radio (Podcast)
-The Row Show (Weekly web video broadcast)
-Sports Marketing 2.0 (Social network)
-The Sports Business Exchange (Quarterly online journal)
-Power Sponsorship / Kim Skildum-Reid (Webinars, white papers, and tutorials)
-Be Your Own Fan TV / Goldklang Group (Bi-weekly web video)

To see a complete list of all categories and all finalists, and to vote for the “People’s Choice – Sports Business Social Media Contributor of the Year” award, visit TheBusinessOfSports.com.

Winners will be anounced at the beginning of May.

The 2009 Princeton Sports Symposium is being held today in Princeton, NJ. Some of the brightest minds from the sports industry will be on hand to discuss current events in sports business. For more information on the Princeton Sports Symposium, visit their official website at www.sportssymposium.org. Below are a few widgets to help keep up with what’s going on at the Symposium for those who cannot make it out to the event.

Here’s a little glossary to help navigate the widgets:
Orange: The Princeton Sports Symposium has asked that everyone attending tweets with the #psports hashtag. This widget is a culmination of everyone using the hashtag.
Gray: Tweets from the @sportssymposium, the official Twitter account from the 2009 Princeton Sports Symposium.
Light Blue: Tweets from Joshua Duboff, the Founder of The Sports Business Exchange.
Brown: Updates that mention @sportssymposium somewhere in their tweet.

Updated 12/10/09: The Twitter searches for @joshuaduboff and @sportssymposium have been disabled

 
The guys at FanChatter have put together a special ChatterBox for the event that will aggregate any Twitter conversations that includes the #sportsbiz hashtag.

Therefore, we’ll be urging everyone to use the #sportsbiz hashtag while at Thursday night’s event.

If you’re unable to make tomorrow’s event, visit The Sports Business Exchange to check out all the action.

Thanks again to FanChatter for setting this up and to Russell Scibetti from The Business Of Sports, and we hope to see all of you there!

Interested in finding out more about the Business of Sports Networking Events?

Click here for a review of:
The Business of Sports Networking – New York on May 26, 2009
The Business of Sports Networking – Boston on June 23, 2009

Make sure to join these LinkedIn groups for more information:
Sports Business Professionals – NYC
Sports Business Professionals – BOS