Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » ESPNRise.com http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 17:08:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 EPSN Launches A High School Sports Social Network Called ESPNRise.com http://pulse2.com/2008/08/26/epsn-launches-a-high-school-sports-social-network-called-espnrisecom/ http://pulse2.com/2008/08/26/epsn-launches-a-high-school-sports-social-network-called-espnrisecom/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:19:25 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=5086 Continue reading →]]>
ESPN, subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) and The Hearst Corporation has launched a new sports social network called ESPNRise.com.  The demographic of ESPNRise.com is 14-18 year olds that play high school sports.   The name ESPNRise comes from ESPN’s acquisition of School Sports Inc.  School Sports published a magazine called RISE.  RISE is now called ESPN Rise and has a website called RISEmag.com.

ESPNRise will have features such as regional rankings, profiles, videos, podcasts, photo upload, blogs, etc.  ESPNRise’s competitors include TAKKLE and YourSports.com.  

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