Sports fan community eFans has relaunched today with a larger focus on the community aspects of its site. As with many sports fan sites out there, the access to news regarding a wide array of sports categories is readily present. Some parts of the site, though, such as scoreboards, feel a bit unfinished and not interactive enough for a social network. But some new features with eFans' relaunch improve the way in which fans are connected within the community around sports news.
The most notable new feature for achieving this is probably the new module option that appears on users' profiles, displaying information about the sports categories and athletes in which they're interested. These modules act as mini applications, similar to the widgets you see on a Facebook profile for applications that have been added by that user.
In order to encourage more activity amongst users, the modules are interactive, and a visiting user can follow the modules' athlete or sport directly from the module, purchase any available items from the modules' shop, or purchase tickets for upcoming games. As eFans can also be used as a marketing platform for teams and athletes (provided through a separate type of eFans user account), promoting their merchandise, tickets and news updates through these modules could be quite beneficial within a sports community.