During its run, the website was ranked as one of the Internet's top-10 most linked sports blogs.
In January 2009, FanHouse began hiring experienced print journalists, including Jay Mariotti of the Chicago Sun-Times, Kevin Blackistone of the Dallas Morning News, and Lisa Olson of the New York Daily News.
FanHouse continued to bolster its roster, hiring writers away from the Orlando Sentinel, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Contra Costa Times, among others.
FanHouse kept its stable of traditional bloggers as well, including widely published Michael David Smith and Elie Seckbach.
(Jamie Mottram), Yardbarker (Alana Nguyen) and NBC (John Clifford Ness).