A big welcome to all of our new bloggers, and congratulations to the latest set of bloggers that we will soon be featuring on our homepage and throughout our network! Keep watching this blog -- we'll start to spotlight new bloggers on a regular basis. 

 Some highlights to get started include: 

• Five Star Performance Camp 
• D's Sports Nuts 
• Grin and Bear it
• Steven Piasecki's Sports Blog 
• All about Jeremy Lin 

How do you know if you've been featured? You'll get a special badge on your blog, and your articles may be selected to be shown on the SportsBlog.com homepage. If you write quality content and update frequently, chances are we'll take notice. Remember to always include photos with your entries: this helps us promote your work, which earns you more eye-balls (and cash!)

Make sure to contact us if you are blogging with us! We love promoting you on our homepage and throughout our network. We're on your team!

• The Grid Iron
• Blizzard
• Calm Mind
• Courtside
• Dilectio
• Illacrimo
• Midnight Alley
• Simplicity Itself
• The Diamond
• The Rink

Blogging can be hard work, and you deserve winning a trophy as much as any MVP. Today we're announcing our new Trophy system, that will reward bloggers with digital trophies that can be shared around the Web. Some of the trophies may even include other prizes and unlock special features!

Click here to learn more about our upcoming Trophy system

As we start to roll-out this initiative, we want to ask our community: What would you like to win a Trophy for? What type of activity do you feel should be rewarded?

 Click Here To Send Us Your Suggestion

We will take your best suggestions into account while deciding on which trophies to offer. Stay tuned for more information about this upcoming award system… and Happy Blogging!

SportsBlog.com has dozens of free themes available to make your blog look great. Today, we added two more!

Introducing "Brick Wall" and "Calm Mind" Themes

• The "Brick Wall" theme features an organic grid layout that is ideal for photoblogs and image-heavy blogs. Its modern design emphasizes your photos -- and unlike other themes of its nature -- it works nicely with text entries, too! If you like this design, you'll probably be interested in our "Photo Album" theme.

• "Calm Mind" is a zen-inspired theme that keeps your content the star. Its subdued design is the first theme in our collection with a left-hand navigation column, for you non-conformists.

Both themes are completely free to all of our bloggers and support a wide-range of customization options and widgets.

Check out the Theme Gallery to view all of our themes. And if you haven't started a blog of your own yet, click here to join for free! 

If you are a theme developer, contact us about offering your themes to our passionate users.

We've made it even easier to share your blog posts with your friends around the world.

Our new FaceBook and Twitter integration automatically posts to your Wall -- and Tweets to your Twitter -- every time you post to your blog!

For FaceBook: A short blurb from your entry, including a thumbnail, will be posted to your Wall automatically for all of your Friends to see.

For Twitter: We'll automatically Tweet your post's headline with a special Twitter-friendly URL that links back to your blog.

Set it up once, and forget about it:  You'll drive your Friends and Followers to your blog each time you post. It couldn't be any easier, and tapping into your online social network is not only a lot of fun; it's also a powerful promotional tool.

This easy-to-use feature automatically promotes your blog, so that you can spend your time on what's important: Blogging about your passion and earning money!

Stay tuned for more killer features, and keep sending in your ideas!