About

The FanSided Network. The fastest growing independent sports network on the Internet. Daily original content crafted for intelligent sports fans by intelligent sports fans.

FanSided started with Arrowhead Addict, a Kansas City Chiefs blog, back in April of 2007. Five years later, a simple website collaboration between two brothers has blossomed into the FanSided empire — a company of over 230 unique sports websites dedicated to team-specific and sport-specific coverage. Millions and millions of sports fans have flocked to our online sports communities, and we’re just getting started.

Nowhere else will you find the edgy, candid “fanpinions” that the FanSided Network dishes out every day of every week of every month of every year. Fandom has no offseason. Neither do we. Sports aren’t our jobs — sports are our lives. We know you eat, breathe, sleep and “you know what” sports. That’s why we’ve recruited a staff of FanSiders who are just as passionate about the teams and sports they cover as you are. Our staff remains dedicated to giving fan nation the coverage it wants — not the coverage the sports leagues and teams or mainstream media want you to receive. You will get the lowdown on your favorite sports and teams on and off the field early and often. Our main site, FanSided.com, is even branching out to cover what research has informed us our audience wants more of — a fusion of sports, entertainment, lifestyle and tech. All you interests in one place!

The FanSided community is as much yours as it is ours. We’re glad to have you on board and promise to deliver great original sports content as you watch all your sports dreams come true. Well, we promise that you’ll at least have a helluva time with us as you watch those dreams go up in smoke. Thanks for reading!

Sincerely,

Adam Best

Executives

Adam Best – Co-Founder/CEO

Best co-founded the FanSided Network in April of 2007.  He oversees the overall direction of the company, both creatively and businesswise.

E-Mail: [email protected]

Zach Best – Co-Founder/CFO

Best co-founded the FanSided Network in April of 2007. He manages the growth of the network from a business, financial and technical standpoint.

E-Mail: [email protected]

Senior Management

Patrick Allen – Vice President of Content

Allen has been with the FanSided Network since 2009 and quarterbacks FanSided from a content perspective.

Matt Blake – Chief Product Officer

Blake has been consulting for Fansided since 2007, and came aboard to help spearhead its tech department on a part-time basis in 2011.

Advisors

Joel Cheesman – Founder at Morale.me, A New Way to Track Employee Satisfaction.

Joel Cheesman is a fine purveyor of weapons grade snark, self-proclaimed mobile marketing, SEO, recruiting and blogging badass; an entrepreneurial wannabe and occasional public speaker. An online recruitment veteran with over 15 years experience, he’s probably best know for the award-winning industry blog Cheezhead. Joel is currently founder of Morale.me, among other endeavors he hopes will keep his family fed and his cats groomed. Follow him at @joelcheesman.

Leadership

John Parent –  Human Resources

Parent has been with the FanSided Network since 2009 and leads the development of all of the MLB properties and the network’s overall MLB brand.

Wally Fish – Data Analysis

Fish has been with the FanSided Network since late 2008 and leads the development of all of the MLB properties and the network’s overall MLB brand.

Zac Snyder – NFL Division Editorial Director

Snyder has been with the FanSided Network since late 2010 and leads the development of all of the NFL properties and the network’s overall NFL brand.

Ernie Padaon – NFL Division Assistant Editorial Director

Padaon has been with the FanSided Network since 2011 and assists in the management of its NFL Division.

Derek Stykalo – NHL Division Editorial Director

Derek has been with the FanSided Network since 2010 and assists in the development of all of the NHL properties and the network’s overall NHL brand.

Timothy Redinger – NHL Division Assistant Editorial Director

Redinger has been with the FanSided Network since 2008 and assists in the management of its NHL Division.

Andrew Kennedy - NBA Division Editorial Director

Kennedy has been with the FanSided Network since 2011 and assists in the development of all of the NBA properties and the network’s overall NBA brand.

Mark Knight – College Division Co-Editorial Director

Knight has been with the FanSided Network since 2010 and leads the development of all of the College properties and the network’s overall College brand.

Michael Castillo – College Division Co-Editorial Director

Castillo has been with the FanSided Network since 2011 and leads the development of all of the College properties and the network’s overall College brand.

Tony Orlando – College Division Assistant Editorial Director

Orlando has been with the FanSided Network since 2011 and assists in the management of its College Division.

Josh Sanchez – Senior Editor, FanSided.com

Sanchez joined the FanSided Network in December of 2009. He has served as Editor of a number of FanSided sites before taking over FanSided.com.

Josh Hill – Local/Extra Editorial Director, Editor – FanSided.com

Hill joined FanSided Network in November of 2010 and now manages FanSided’s Local and Extra sites. He is also an editor on FanSided.com.

Brian Miller/Consultant

Miller has been with the FanSided Network since early 2007 — and was its first blogger hired –  and assists in various capacities.

Site Editors and Contributors

The FanSided Network and its 230-plus sites have a staff of roughly 1,200 sportswriters, some serving as site editors, others as part-time featured contributors. To learn more about these staff members, please visit their respective site’s individual About pages.