Game time

One of the curses of a busy office job is not being able to find time to stay in shape. Here at our Los Angeles office, we try to break up late work nights with occasional ping-pong and foosball matches just to keep our muscles from atrophying. If only watching sports could burn as many calories as playing them. We’ve been adding a lot of content since we launched out of private beta, and one category we’ve focused on augmenting is sports.

We’ve added our first set of content from both the NBA and the NHL to our site, just in time to catch the last leg of their regular seasons. In a banner season for the NBA, with classic franchises like the Lakers and Celtics back as title contenders and star players swapping uniforms in blockbuster trades, you can keep up with daily happenings through NBA Daily Recaps, or you can get your fill of highlight reel plays through videos in the NBA 5-Star Plays and Top 10s sections. We’ve also just added our first few full-length classic games to the site, including Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game.

For hockey fans, we’ve added a variety of ways to keep up with the NHL. If you just want a quick periodic update, NHL’s Best of the Week highlights the week’s best assists, goals, saves, and hits. For those with more time, revisit some classic NHL games from this season or years past. We’ve also loaded our first batch of NHL player profiles, for those who are curious about what some of the players are like off the ice.

All this is in addition to the sports content we already had on our site, such as full length episodes of action sports shows like Firsthand and The 808 from Fuel TV and full length college football games like the epic Boise State-Oklahoma battle in the 2007 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.

As with all of our content categories, this is just a baby step towards the type of selection we believe can find an audience online, but we’re always open to your feedback and thoughts.

Eugene (eugene.wei@hulu.com)