"Sportsvite is uniting fellow sports lovers through a growing online community. "

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Sportsvite is uniting fellow sports lovers through a growing online community.

By Joanne Yao | May 03, 2007

What: Sportsvite.com, an online community for sports enthusiasts
Where: New York

What's keeping millions of Americans from playing sports? No, it's not beer or the latest episode of 30 Rock. According to a Surgeon General report, it's the inability to find people to play with. Lifetime friends Neal Shenoy, Vinodh Bhat and Steve Parker saw a solution to the problem. The trio created Sportsvite.com as a way to meet other sports enthusiasts online after finding it difficult to organize their own games while working in New York.

They quickly discovered they weren't the only ones with this dilemma. The Sportsvite community has ballooned to 22,000 registered users since the site was introduced in July 2005. Although many users are twentysomething professionals in big cities and suburbs who want to remain active, Sportsvite isn't dominated by a single age group or gender. About an equal percentage of male and female users in their teens to mid-60s participate in 130 different sports and activities with the help of the site. Members range from semi-professional athletes to competitive rock, paper, scissors players to recreational basketball players--all of whom value Sportsvite as an easy way to form activity groups and meet other enthusiasts

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I thought this was interesting. I found it by googling one of the founders who lived down the street from me when I was a kid. I think you have to be in or near a big city to find anybody who uses this, but I thought it was a great idea.