So as I've said before, I'm a long distance runner and run track and cross country (and that's me running to the left), which i would consider "less known" sports. But, thanks to the internet, these sports are getting better notoriety and allowing true fans of the sport to really follow the action.
There are high school network sites devoted solely to track and field, such as MileStat and DyeStat; and also sites like Letsrun.com and Trackshark.com that stick strictly to college and professional level news and racing. These various sites use memberships and advertising to generate money, but their main goal is to get news and results out as fast as possible so their "running nerd" audience is appeased.
An even better website that is going to the next level is called flotrack.com. It runs a live video feed from big time meets and is free for anyone to watch. Here's a link to a race i ran a week and a half ago in Philadelphia. My teammates who didn't make the trip were able to watch the race live from DC, pretty crazy.
And who knows where this will stop. Back in the days when my coach ran, he said there was a monthly magazine that was sent out that gave the updates on what was going on around the country in track and field. Now people can watch races live from across the country. The Internet is giving those individuals in the "less known" sports a chance to have there 15 minutes of fame and become "more known" to everyone else.
