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Local sports and humor report 'JoeSportsFan' launches expansion campaign

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Josh Bacott (left) and Matt Sebek

WHAT ABOUT JANE?: Matt Sebek, Josh Bacott and Chris Files together make up "JoeSportsFan," an online sports humor report that was founded in 2005 and is based in St. Louis, or as the trio says: "It was founded and is operated in the shadow of the world's largest mustache."

After making sure there was an audience for their type of sports reporting and humor, the group is looking to expand and has launched a redesigned website, is bringing back its weekly podcast, "The JoeSportsFan Show," and has launched a Kickstarter campaign with a goal of $5,000 to help them host, produce and distribute a weekly show.

Sebek et al have some credentials: The Riverfront Times voted JoeSportsFan the "Best Sports Blog" in 2010, and said Bacott and Sebek were the "best one-two sports combo in St. Louis since Jack Buck and Harry Caray"; Sebek won the RFT's "Funniest Twitter Feed" award for 2012; he was named one of Sports Illustrated's "40 Sports People to Follow on Twitter"; Bacott is also a featured columnist at KFNS.com and St. Louis Sports Magazine and says he was "once the lowest paid man on the cover of Parade Magazine's "What People Make" edition;" and Files is a multimedia expert at ESPN 101; lead videographer at JoeSportsFan; and an RFT nominee for the "Best in Video" award.

According to their Kickstarter campaign website, their effort so far has 22 backers who have pledged $1,460 toward their $5,000 goal. They have until March 1 to raise the full amount to fund the project.

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