Printer Friendly
The Free Library
19,573,962 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

ADVISORY/New ESPN.com Service Offers Fast, Interactive Way to Find March Madness Statistics At espn.factcity.net.


Sports Editors/Basketball Writers & Columnists

ADVISORY...

--(BW SportsWire)

ATTN.:    Men's College Basketball Journalists and Broadcasters
FROM:     ESPN.com
DATE:     March 13, 2000
RE:       Fastest way to find accurate statistics on NCAA Men's
          Division I basketball


Need NCAA NCAA
abbr.
National Collegiate Athletic Association
 statistics fast for your March Madness March Madness may refer to:
  • NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
  • NCAA March Madness series, an EA Sports basketball video game series
  • Mega March Madness, pay-per-view package
 stories? Then bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future.  espn.factcity.net.

ESPN.com has teamed up with a new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2.  search service called Fact City to deliver a free, interactive reference tool for finding NCAA Division I men's basketball statistics Statistics in basketball are kept to evaluate a player or a team's performance.

Some statistics are
  • GP, GS: games played, games started
  • PTS: points
  • FGM, FGA, FG%: field goals made, attempted and percentage
  • FTM,
 (1996-present.) Why waste time with cumbersome reference books when you can ask a question online and receive an answer instantly?

ESPN.com/Fact City Delivers Fast and Reliable Statistics:

All statistics delivered through the ESPN/Fact City service are provided by STATS, Inc., a leading provider of sports information and analysis to news publications, broadcasters and online services. So you know our facts are reliable.

From the most successful players and teams, to those Cinderella squads that have faded from the limelight limelight: see calcium oxide.
limelight

Early form of theatrical lighting. The incandescent calcium light invented by Thomas Drummond in 1816 was first employed in a theatre in 1837 and was widely used by the 1860s.
 and memory, ESPN.com and Fact City have the answers to your college hoops questions. Here is a sampling of statistics now at your fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. :


Team information:

-    Coach
-    Wins/losses
-    Assists
-    Home arena
-    Fouls
-    Turnovers
-    Steals
-    Rebounds
-    3-pointer percentages
-    Field goal percentages
-    Season highs/lows
-    Even mascots & nicknames!

Player information:

-    Team
-    Position
-    Last year played
-    Hometown
-    Uniform number
-    Assists
-    Steals
-    Blocks
-    Fouls
-    Games played
-    Games started
-    Game minutes
-    Field goal percentages
-    Points made
-    High scores & more!


If you need statistics fast, ESPN.com and Fact City have a slam-dunk direct answer. So get in the game and visit espn.factcity.net.
COPYRIGHT 2000 Business Wire
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2000, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Publication:Business Wire
Date:Mar 13, 2000
Words:261
Previous Article:cMore Medical Solutions Adds Respected Medical Specialists Peitzman and Biel to Software Development Team.
Next Article:Unisys Integrates Phone.com Technology to Deliver Mobile Internet Solutions to Carriers; Unisys to Sell End-to-end Wap-ready Solutions to Wireless...
Topics:



Related Articles
ESPN.com Delivers NBA Stats and Facts On Demand at http://espn-nba.factcity.net.
iWon Selects Fact City as Key Part of New Search Enhancement Strategy.
SURFING THE TUBE.
SURFING THE TUBE.
SURFING THE TUBE.
SURFING THE TUBE.
DISNEY SET TO END SPORT RETAILING BUSINESS.
SURFING THE TUBE.
A LITTLE CLOSER TO EQUALITY\Meyers, women's games get live TV.
WAR, BASKETBALL STRANGE MIX.

Terms of use | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles