CYBERSPORT.If all you know about the new CNN/SI Website is what you skimmed in the editor's note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. of this week's Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. , you'd have to think what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. is the greatest thing since sliced spreadsheets. The upstart TV sports info-provider that brings the best of the all-news cable channel and the heralded sports magazine has decided it wants to play hardball. What better way to show how serious your intentions by flexing your techno-muscles in cyberspace. CNN/SI definitely has the strength of Time Warner behind it. And a look at the Yahoo! search engine shows that despite being up for just about a week, it's already wormed its way onto its sports site big four list with ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network SportsZone, CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. Sportsline and The Sporting News. The content isn't anything to scoff at. The news is immediate with real-time scoreboards for each sport. It allows you to customize. Of course, it links you to every Time-Warner site you could possibly want. What this really brings to light is the fact anyone can put a sports site up on the Web, but it just depends on what filter you choose to get your information through. If you like Peter King more than Peter Gammons, then this is nirvana. (And speaking of King: Read him in SI. Watch him on CNN/SI (thank goodness, not on ABC's ``Monday Night Football'' anymore. E-mail him questions on the Website while you download past stories. The first week the site was up, King received 300 e-mails. One for each pound.) It can't hurt to have another voice in the ``we provide everything'' battle to hook more sports junkies, which have proven to be the most avid of Internet users. In Webspeak, CNN/SI is a definite 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. (and if you already had the old SI pathfinder site marked, this will automatically take you to CNN/SI). CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Site: www.cnnsi.com |
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