In both sports and the tech industry, you win some and you lose some. Even though OnSports chief executive Aaron Krane got a nasty black eye this week in a pick-up basketball game, his company just closed a $2 million round led by Mike Maples’ Floodgate fund. The company, also known as Hitpost, makes this mobile app OnSports which has live discussions, polls and news about sports. It’s aiming to be the destination where sports fans can chatter or rage about their most-loved or hated teams and players. The app has more than 1 million downloads on Google Play and something less than that on iOS. While Krane didn’t share stats on active usage, he did say that there are “tens of thousands” of discussions and votes per day. Krane, who used to work at the social gaming company that Google acquired called Slide, says there is an unexploited sweet spot in Read More

Eric Eldon is a writer at TechCrunch. He was previously the cofounder and editor of Inside Network, where he managed publications including Inside Facebook, Inside Social Games and Inside Mobile Apps. Before that, he spent a couple years covering technology and finance at VentureBeat, a leading Silicon Valley publication where he was the first employee. While Inside Network sold... → Learn More Most popular mobile sports apps are trying to feed you scores and news, or show you fantasy numbers. OnSports, by HitPost, is in a smaller class of apps that’s focused on users running the discussion themselves. And now, ahead of the Super Bowl this Sunday, viral growth and featured spots on the Android Market and the iTunes App Store are helping it step up against larger competitors. The app, which lets users make their own reports and polls with professional photos, is now #2 on the Android Market free Read More

Hitpost Sports is a new app from Hitpost Inc. It allows you to track sports news and scores easily, wherever you may be, for just about any team you can think of. It’s definitely an app that should be checked out by any sports fanatic. What the app basically lets you do is track all the scores and recent events of your teams, and your teams only. I’m going to get my first major negative out of the way right now. In order to use the app, you need to link your Facebook account or your email address so that it can remember you in the future. This kind of annoys me, and I don’t see why it can’t work without this info. As soon as you get in though, you’re asked to find your teams from lists of their various sports. There’s a pretty good selection, from MLB, to NBA, Read More