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CYBERSPORTS YOUR MVP VOTE COUNTS IF IT GOES.


Byline: - Tom Hoffarth

And the Most Valuable Player Award for the 2002 NBA Finals The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association.

The team winning the Eastern Conference Finals earns one of the two berths in the championship round, with the other going to the team that wins the Western Conference Finals.
 goes to ... hold on, there are a few more votes coming in from China.

For the first time in Finals history, visitors to the NBA NBA
abbr.
1. National Basketball Association

2. National Boxing Association

NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (=
.com Web site can help the media officially pick the Lakers' Shaquille O'Neal Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (pronounced "shak-KEEL") (born March 6, 1972 in Newark, New Jersey), frequently referred to simply as Shaq, is an American professional basketball player, generally regarded as one of the most dominant in the National Basketball Association (NBA).  as the postseason MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. .

Voting will take place only during the fourth quarter of the deciding game - or about 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

There are supposedly an average of 15 million visitors a day at the NBA's official 2002 Finals link (www.nba.com/finals2002/), with nearly 40 percent of that traffic coming abroad.

With 11 different live audio broadcasts on the site - including, of course, Philippine Tagalog - it has made it a little easier for those far away to follow things.

One of the site's newest features, which hasn't been all that necessary, is called ``The Run'' - a four-to-five-minute rebroadcast of the key point in the game's outcome.

--It's more than the diary of a mad Nets follower at JoeNetsFan.com, which has received a lot of ink lately in the media for its unique look at the New Jersey team.

--The USGA's official site for this week's U.S. Open The term U.S. Open is applied to "open" United States national championships in a particular sport, in which anybody, amateur or professional, American or non-American may compete. These include:
  • U.S. Open (golf), golf tournament of the United States Golf Association
  • U.
 golf championship (www.usopen.com) shows how the par-70 Bethpage Black course has been adjusted to include the two longest par 4s in Open history, the 499-yard No. 12 and 492-yard No. 10.

In addition to live scoring and full leaderboards, the site, for the second year in a row, has a live Webcast at the par 3 third and 14th holes with Roger Twibell Roger Twibell is currently a journalist for ABC Sports. Twibell most often commentates on golf events. Prior to working at ABC, he also worked at ESPN on SportsCenter. He also works on pre-season games for the Kansas City Chiefs.  from 6 a.m. to noon during the first two rounds.

And at the games link, there's a printable crossword puzzle and ``hangman'' exercise to guess the name of a past winner or golf expression in less than nine tries.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Jun 10, 2002
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