AthleteDirect.com Signs American League All-Star Nomar Garciaparra; Athlete Direct to Create Official Web Site For Garciaparra.Sports Editors &Baseball/High-Tech Writers LOS ANGELES--(BW SportsWire)--Jan. 20, 2000 Athlete Direct will create and maintain the official Web site of Nomar Garciaparra Anthony Nomar Garciaparra[1] (born July 23, 1973, in Whittier, California) is a Mexican-American baseball player who currently plays third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers. , the 1999 American League American League (AL) One of the two associations of professional baseball teams in the U.S. and Canada designated as major leagues; the other is the National League (NL). batting champion, it was announced today. Athlete Direct produces the exclusive online sites for over 250 professional athletes and develops opportunities for athletes and fans to interact worldwide. &uot;We are proud to welcome Nomar to Athlete Direct and our network of official athlete Web sites,&uot; says Ross Schaufelberger, president of Athlete Direct. &uot;Nomar is one of the most popular and recognized athletes in the world, and we are excited about providing him with the arena to interact with his fans.&uot; &uot;I am very excited to team up with Athlete Direct as we launch my new Web site,&uot; said Garciaparra. &uot;This will really allow me the opportunity to interact with my fans. It will also give my fans a chance to find out more about me rather than what they see and read in sports publications. I hope I can create an environment that my fans will want to come back to, day after day to see what is new with me.&uot; Garciaparra's Web site, (http://nomar5.athletedirect.com), will feature statistics, audio/video, stores, fan clubs, chats and journals. The Web site is scheduled to launch in late February 2000. The Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox are a member and currently champions of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. From to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. shortstop joins an impressive list of all-star athletes with Web sites at Athlete Direct, including Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant (born July 23 1978) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. , Karl Malone Athlete Direct is a property of Broadband Sports Inc., a leading Internet provider of original content and commerce for hundreds of individual sports communities. Athlete Direct is a leading developer, publisher and aggregator of high-quality, official online sites for athletes. Athlete Direct has over 250 athlete partners, which include some of the world's most prominent athletes across 10 sports, including football, baseball, basketball, auto racing and tennis. Athlete Direct's athlete sites are accessible through the company's Web site at www.AthleteDirect.com, Yahoo! Sports at http://sports.yahoo.com/allstars and America Online (AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. ) at keyword: &uot;AD.&uot; |
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