“Founder, Owner, CEO, whatever. He makes the videos, develops the site, and writes articles. The head honcho.”
This is how the staff section of broboxsports.com describes JCaps, or Sophomore Josh Caplan.
A couple of months ago, Caplan and his friends started a Facebook group to discuss sports, and soon after, broboxsports.com was born.
Caplan developed BroBox Sports using WordPress and said that constant talk of sports between him and his friends was the site’s inspiration.
“We constantly talk about sports; we even created a Facebook group just to talk about sports. Why don’t we make a site and do something more with it?” Caplan said.
According to Caplan, BroBox Sports has tried to carve a niche in the sports website scene, specifically targeting high school students.
“What we have all found is that we have to have four or five sites bookmarked because they all have little parts of different things, and there is no one site that does it all, especially for the high school age group,” Caplan said.
The site was designed to try and solve that problem, so that sports fans in high school could look to one place for all of their sports news, according to Caplan.
“Our objective is to create a site where the sports fan can go on and get informed about news and read articles that are more blogger style with opinions,” Caplan said.
BroBox Sports contributor and sophomore Evan Marohn has been involved almost since the start of the site.
“Evan gets you the scores and gives you the news you want when you want it. He’s gonna keep you up to date on sports, and he’s gonna make you believe every word he writes,” reads his staff information on broboxsports.com.
Marohn said that the site focuses on being opinionated, unique and humorous.
“We try to make ourselves unique by writing a lot of articles that could be controversial, and we could make it something humorous that another website might not write about. We put a lot of different spins on topics,” Marohn said. “We are very open to feedback on our articles, and we have comments sections, so people who don’t agree with our article can comment.”
BroBox Sports allows contributors to write on the sport of their choice. Marohn, for example, writes almost exclusively about the NBA and college basketball, while fellow contributor and sophomore Jonathan Paserman focuses on soccer.
“Certain kids have expressed what they wanted to write about, and so when there are big news and headlines on that subject, I usually make a post in the Facebook group or chat them and tell them to write about it,” Caplan said.
According to Paserman the process of writing an article is simple, fun and takes only about 15 minutes.
“Writing the articles isn’t very hard, but finding the time is a bit harder,” Paserman said. “I basically decide the biggest news and start writing looking at websites and what they are saying about it. I then try to make my own version of it, and share my own opinions.”
For Paserman, the best part is seeing what others post, while Marohn said it is learning about something that he already loves.
“It is cool, because when I write an article, I can learn about the sport. I’ll have to do a little research to get enough information to write a good article,” Marohn said. “I learn things that I didn’t know.”
According to Caplan, the future of BroBox Sports looks bright, and he and his team have plans to bring an even more interactive aspect to the site.
“We are going to try to change the way we produce articles and the way we come out with them. Also, a fantasy sports platform is in development,” Caplan said. “If kids are being entertained, like a Buzzfeed for sports, then instead of going on ESPN or watching Sportscenter, they are going to go to BroBox Sports and get their news here. When they are going to play fantasy football, they are going to go on Brobox. That is really cool.”
For now, BroBox Sports allows its readers to enjoy short, humorous articles, and witness the constant progress of a developing website, all while still checking out the latest scores and sports news.
“It is not your average sports site,” Marohn said. “The reason that you might want to read articles on BroBox and not an article from a bigger site is that they are more unique.”
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