Boston.com Announces Agreement with Go-RedSox.com.BOSTON -- Boston.com today announced that it has entered into a content-sharing agreement with Go-RedSox.com, an established Japanese-language baseball site. Under the agreement, excerpts of Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. coverage from The Boston Globe, Boston.com and the Boston Dirt Dogs fan site will be translated and posted on Go-RedSox.com for Japanese-language readers worldwide. The new relationship begins immediately, with links between both sites. This arrangement follows the dramatic upsurge in interest in 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. within Japan following the signing earlier this month of Japanese pitching star Daisuke Matsuzaka. Reliever Hideki Okajima also joined the Red Sox roster this offseason. In another sign of interest in Red Sox coverage among Japanese sports fans, the Globe's Gordon Edes has committed to a twice-monthly column for Sankei Daily Sports, Japan's leading sports publication. Go-RedSox.com, operated by Japanese journalist Daigo Fujiwara, has been operating since 2003 and is an offshoot of his authoritative site on Japanese ballplayers in Major League Baseball, japaneseballplayers.com. Fujiwara also works at the Globe as a graphics designer. "This agreement is a creative way to bring our brand of quality coverage to a new audience who cares about Boston-area sports" said David Beard, editor of Boston.com. "This is no mere translation service. Daigo Fujiwara brings the same passion to the game as Boston.com." Fujiwara, who has blogged about the Red Sox for years, said he respects the breadth of sports coverage by Globe writers such as Gordon Edes, which has helped the paper gain recognition as one of the best sports sections in the country. In addition to the Globe's coverage, Boston.com Sports section carries its own online reports, Boston Dirt Dog columns, and footage and stories from regional sports network In the United States of America, a Regional Sports Network, or RSN, is a cable television station that presents sports programming to a local market. The most important programming on an RSN consists of live broadcasts of professional and college sporting events, as those games NESN NESN New England Sports Network and New England Cable News New England Cable News, known on-air as "NECN", is a regional cable television network serving the New England region of the United States. It is very similar to CNN in structure and style, but focuses more on regional news items and events. . Boston.com has already secured one sponsor for the new partner site. For advertising information, call Sean McDonnell at 617-929-7034 or email smcdonnell@boston.com. About Boston.com Boston.com is one of the most visited regional portals (the site had a record 4.4 million unique users in November 2006) in the U.S. and is part of The New York Times Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NYT), a leading media company with 2005 revenues of $3.4 billion. The New York Times Company includes the International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune Daily newspaper published in Paris. It has long been the staple source of English-language news for American expatriates, tourists, and businesspeople in Europe. , The Boston Globe, 15 other daily newspapers, nine network-affiliated television stations, two New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. radio stations and 35 Web sites, including NYTimes.com and About.com. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment. |
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