CYBERSPORTS A PLACE TO BEGIN YOUR SPORTS PORTFOLIO.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth A site the company's founder touts as a sports version of eBay meeting E*Trade will launch Tuesday, providing the first live online sports stock market based on the fluctuating fluc·tu·ate v. fluc·tu·at·ed, fluc·tu·at·ing, fluc·tu·ates v.intr. 1. To vary irregularly. See Synonyms at swing. 2. To rise and fall in or as if in waves; undulate. v. prices of trading cards. At thePit.com, users will instantly buy and sell professionally graded trading cards of pro athletes from the four major sports, plus Tiger Woods  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled. . Founder Marc Lore hopes this will transform the way collecting is done from now on. At least maybe it will for cards of currently active players, since it's his idea that the prices of them will go up or down based on the guy's performance. Which isn't necessarily true, but . . . ``We're trying to bring back collectors from the 1970s and 1980s who sort of left the market,'' said Lore. ``I was one of them.'' The success of fantasy trading sites such as WallStreetSports.com has given the company reason to believe there's enough interest in cyberloons to deal with the real thing. Or at least a tangible commodity. Accounts on the site are free, but members are charged a 1 percent commission on each trade, with a minimum of $5. --Ticket orders for events at the 2002 Winter Olympics Olympics Sports medicine An international competition among (traditionally) nonprofessional athletes trained in a particular summer or winter sport, which is held every 4 yrs in a selected city. See Paralympics, Special Olympics, World Medical Games. in Salt Lake City will be accepted starting Tuesday on the official Web site www.slc2002.org. They won't come cheap. Opening and closing ceremony tickets run a hefty heft·y adj. heft·i·er, heft·i·est 1. Of considerable weight; heavy. 2. Rugged and powerful. See Synonyms at heavy. 3. $885 (with a 12 ticket-per-order limit, if that's even possible). The men's hockey gold- medal match tickets go for $325 and $425, while the women's hockey title game is $150 to $250. Figure-skating tickets range from $35 to $400. A ``virtual wristband'' system in place by Tickets.com on the site will give everyone a fair shot at tickets that are oversubscribed Refers to connecting more users to a system than can be fully supported if all of them were using it at the same time. Networks and servers are almost always designed with some amount of oversubscription, counting on the fact that everybody does not need the service simultaneously. (more tickets requested than are available) as long as the orders are placed by Dec. 12. The Salt Lake City Games begin Feb. 8, 2002 and run 17 days. --The Oakland Raiders This article is about an American football team. For other uses, see Raider. The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in the city of Oakland, California. are offering fans access to a new kind of portal at www.myraiders.net that intends to give them better access to team news, merchandise, e-mail and chat rooms related to the team. --Fans in the luxury suites at 3Com Park during Sunday's 49ers-Raiders games got to try out a new wireless network that allowed them to talk to each other in the stadium with a hand-held computer Noun 1. hand-held computer - a portable battery-powered computer small enough to be carried in your pocket hand-held microcomputer portable computer - a personal computer that can easily be carried by hand , or send instant messages to anyone outside the park. |
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