CYBERSPORT : FANNING THE FLAMES IN THE HEATED POLL DEBATE.Byline: Tom Hoffarth To really take this Bowl Championship Series formula to the next level, someone back at mission control should factor in the results from the Internet's top two weekly fan polls on ESPN.com and CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. SportsLine. They've got to be as legit le·git adj. Slang Legitimate. as anything else. In order to preserve the integrity of its poll by using software that eliminates duplicate votes - thus preventing ballot-stuffing - voting on the ESPN.com poll (http://ESPN.SportsZone.com/interact/chat/fanpollrank.html) runs Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. to Tuesday morning, and the results are posted by Thursday. Going into last Saturday's games,Kansas State had replaced Tennessee as the new No. 1 in this cyber survey with 4,602 first-place votes (http://ESPN.SportsZone.com/interact/polls/ncffanpoll.html). UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX checked in at No. 3. The CBS SportsLine poll accepts Shockwave, Java or HTML ballots between Saturday night and Thursday morning (http:// ww1.sportsline.com/u/football/ college/polls/fanpoll.htm), with the results available Thursday night. Last week's poll (http:// ww3.sportsline.com/u/contests/ entries/fanpoll.htm) closer resembled the BCA BCA Business Case Analysis BCA Building Code of Australia BCA Boeing Commercial Airplanes BCA Board of Contract Appeals BCA Boston Center for the Arts BCA Billiard Congress of America BCA Bureau of Criminal Apprehension BCA Breast Cancer Action poll, as Tennessee had a 447-point lead at No. 1 over UCLA, with Kansas State third. For a comparative chuckle, check out the poll at the USA Today USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. site (http://survey.usatoday.com/survey/fanvot.html), which permits just one vote for No. 1 (instead of the full 25 slots) plus requires giving up an e-mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address (no doubt for future spam) before the ballot counts. In the newspaper's latest farce, Texas A&M (29 percent) was tops; UCLA was fifth. Meanwhile, gussied-up versions of the Associated Press' writers' poll (http://www.aptop25.com) and the USA Today/ESPN coaches' poll (http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/sfc/sfcpusa.htm) are around for reference. Or debate. And then there's Mike DeSimone of Clarksboro, N.J., who uses mathematical algorithms to figure out his No. 1-to-112 poll at his site (http://www.algorithms.com/users/desimone/top25.htm). His top pick? Hey, you do the math. |
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