Talk to McFadden & Rivers DURING THE DRAFT!

April 25, 2008 · Paul Raymond · Jump to comments

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Thats right, you can hear and talk with future NFL stars Keith Rivers and Darren McFadden LIVE during the NFL Draft on Saturday. How’s this going to happen you wonder, and why would they do so? Well Yardbarker.com, is taking online sports community to a whole new level with this. So how can you talk to them?

Keith Rivers will be blogging live all day at Yardbarker from his living room couch! That’s right he’ll be blogging with us while having his private draft party at his home in Florida. He will be posting video clips, pictures and blogs, as well as responding to your comments. “Yardbarker has proven to be the place where fans can connect directly with their favorite athletes online, but USC linebacker Keith Rivers will be taking the connection to another level by creating space on his couch for football fans everywhere during his private NFL draft party,” Yardbarker CEO Pete Vlastelica said. “By going to Yardbarker.com fans will get to experience the phone calls and the emotion of this once-in-a-lifetime moment with one of the top players in the draft.”

And now to one of the crown jewels of the draft, Darren McFadden. We all know he’ll be in NYC attending the draft in person, so how will he be participating. He won’t be able to communicate with us, but he will be posting video blogs throughout the day. He’s already started doing so, so you can actually go over to Yardbarker right now to see those.

Guys this is a really cool thing Yardbarker is doing, first of its kind where we the fans can really connect with draftees during an event of this magnitude. If you’ve never been to the Yard, its a sports community, much like digg or other sites, where you can vote on articles, blog yourself, and communicate with other fans. They’ve even got professional athletes who blog there, like McFadden and Rivers. There are also big name stars that do, such as Donovan McNabb, Rasheed Wallace, Greg Oden, and many many others from all fields.

Here is the link to all of the Yardbarker draft coverage. MySportsRumors.com is also a part a the Yardbarker.com blogging network, so find us on there and become a fan!

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