LA-Story.com: Spitter.com Gives Sports Fans a Forum to Connect with Fans of Favorite College and Pro Teams !

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Real-time web sites and forums allow enable people to comment on everything from last night's movie to what they had for breakfast-- but the college and pro sports teams had separate and distinct networks as if never the two would partner up-- until now. Courtesy of the introduction of Spitter.com, now fans of both college and pro teams in all sports can connect and chat up about past and upcoming games and playoffs. Launched a few weeks ago, Spitter is a sports fan's real-time source for news headlines and fan discussions.

Powered by SpitterBot, Spitter searches the Internet for the best sports news headlines and fan discussions - and presents them on easy-to-scan pages organized by a specific team - whether it's the local print / broadcast take on the Kansas Jayhawks or the Carolina Panthers or national teams. Registered members of Spitter post short message comments and links to news directly onto to team-specific pages for the community to share.

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For example, a fan of the Kansas City Royals will go to the Royals page on Spitter.com and find real time news headlines with links to current coverage of the team, from a wide range of media sites, paired with fan discussion and commentary by other Royals fans.

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SpitterBot does the work for a fan, and to offer an example - if I am a Washington Husky fan then it's helpful to me to not have to check out 10 different sites for news and information on my team when Spitter.com presents the collective content in one easy-to-navigate area. Then I can immediately interact with the Husky Nation that has been fostered on Spitter, so we can talk about the new recruit that Washington is looking at.

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Media will also find Spitter to be unique way to reach fans with their real-time content, provided squarely within a group of passionate fans eager to receive it..

Spitter currently features team-specific page sites for the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL - as well as college-specific communities - and golfer-by-golfer pages for PGA fans as well as a PGA-specific channel.

Motor sports fans can also track their favorite drivers in NASCAR, Formula One and MotoGP. Even international soccer fans have a home on Spitter.com, with team-specific pages for the Premier League, Championship League, League One, Scottish Premier League, Scottish Division 1 and for Major League Soccer (MLS).

Spitter was created by former executives and developers (Peter Gruman and David Eckoff ) who helped build and launch both Rivals.com and Scout.com so popular they are now part of the Yahoo! and FOXSports.com networks respectively. Both sites were created during the "Internet Gold Rush" days, and were the first sports sites to popularize message boards, providing sports fans with an online voice long before the advent of blogging..

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Like something out of an "Ocean's 11" movie, specialists from the original team were recruited from across the country to create Spitter: a former executive out of Seattle; another out of Atlanta; the original design artist out of Nashville; thus creating a "virtual company" that relied on experience more than actual location, a strong advantage in a recovering economy.

All you sports fans-- no matter your sport-- check out Spitter.com for all the scoop on your favorite teams and players.