We made the Bleacher Report’s ‘The 25 Best Sports Tumblrs’ Cool List. Thanks b/r, appreciate the love.

With award season upon us The Tickr crew is all dressed up with nowhere to go. So why not vote and help us bring home a Shorty Award for Microblog of the Year on Tumblr!

We’ll be sure to post the red carpet photos when we’re back from the Shorty’s. Rumor has it one of us is going backless. Thanks in advance, The Tickr crew.

Two Year Anniversary Humblebrag

Around two years ago, Ryan and I started this blog with the simple goal of channelling our lifetime passion for sports. After two weeks we grew our followers to double digits. The audience was small but it was an audience and it kept us going. Now, two days shy of our two year anniversary, we’re creeping on 10,000 followers! *Tebowing with thanks*.

We jumped into the sports media game (and Tumblr) unaware that the industry was changing. With the help of Twitter and Tumblr, independant sports publishers are making a name for themselves. Humbly, that’s what we’re trying to do with The Tickr and we have a few things in the pipeline that we hope will do just that.

With the help of our new recruit, Steven LeBron, we’re going to start creating original sports content. It all starts tomorrow with a new feature we’re calling 3 in the Key. On a weekly basis, Steven LeBron will focus on three relevant basketball plot lines and package it all up in one post worth pondering. From there we plan on building out more, yet to be determined, original content features — thoughts, viewpoints and opinions you won’t find anywhere else but here at The Tickr.

We’ve come a long way since January 4th, 2010 but we have an even longer way to go. Our vision for 2012 and beyond is strong and we look forward to rolling it out to you. Thank you for making our humble sports blog mean a little something. We’re still flying coach but we’re sitting next to cute blondes who read Those Guys Have All The Fun.

As reported by the all mighty Mashable, Tumblr launched it’s new Spotlight Directory today. We made it under Sports, which is great, but we really had our hearts set on making it under Sports in Stilettos…

We’d like to welcome Chitwood & Hobbs to the Tumblr Sports Network aka the TSN (not to be confused with Canada’s version of ESPN). Curated by Ryan Sims and Nick Hall, Chitwood & Hobbs is dedicated to the intersection of sports and culture, with a soft spot for the 70s and 80s. Sounds like foam finger goodness worth following.

It’s amazing to see the Tumblr sports community grow! We’re in the middle of drafting up a directory of sorts for all the Tumblr sports blogs we dig. Watch for that next week! Until then…Show em’ how to Dougie Chuck!!

We’re honored to be part of the growing sports community on Tumblr. Recommend a sports Tumblr this Tuesday. Bonus points for recommending us.