NEW `SHARK' SIGHTINGS : FRESNO STATE COACH TARKANIAN GETS WEB PAGE.Byline: Mathew Yi Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Internet surfers beware be·ware v. be·wared, be·war·ing, be·wares v.tr. To be on guard against; be cautious of: "Beware the ides of March" Shakespeare. v. , the ``Shark'' has been sighted. Fresno State basketball coach Jerry the ``Shark'' Tarkanian has made his mark in the World Wide Web. His official Internet site features his team's statistics, pictures of recent games, a letter to his fans and his coaching resume. Not only that, with just a few clicks of a mouse button and a credit card, you can buy the official Tark T-shirt, his autobiography or a video documentary chronicling his coaching career. ``We just felt that this was a good site to develop,'' said Rod Silver of ARTCO ARTCO Alex R. Thomas & Co. (Ukiah, CA) , Inc., which created the site. ``It's a very elaborate site and it has a lot of depth to it. The development has been pretty complex. This is an opportunity to showcase the school, the basketball program and the community,'' The home page has a large banner across the top that reads ``tark'' in red, with a grey shark shark, member of a group of almost exclusively marine and predaceous fishes. There are about 250 species of sharks, ranging from the 2-ft (60-cm) pygmy shark to 50-ft (15-m) giants. They are found in all seas, but are most abundant in warm waters. coming out of it. The rest of the page sits on top of a silhouetted background of basketballs. The three column format is meant to look like a newspaper page, Silver said. ``I'm excited about it, and I think it has a lot of potential,'' Tarkanian said. Tarkanian added that his son Danny, takes care of the home page's content. ``He's not from ... the generation that uses the Internet. He doesn't even have a computer in his office,'' said Danny Tarkanian, an assistant coach. ``He's like most people who came through the era of telephones.'' But with a quick tutorial An instructional book or program that takes the user through a prescribed sequence of steps in order to learn a product. Contrast with documentation, which, although instructional, tends to group features and functions by category. See tutorials in this publication. and a view to the possibilities of cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. , Jerry Tarkanian Jerry Tarkanian (born August 8 1930), also known as "Tark the Shark", is a former college basketball coach known for colorful behavior, including habitually chewing on a towel during games, and for his public criticisms of and clashes with the NCAA. bought the idea and will be getting paid for it. The site includes a number of local advertisements, including a free big screen TV offer from Gottschalks department store if the 14th-ranked Bulldogs win every game through Jan. 1. Silver did not say how much revenue the site generates in advertising. Silver said the site has been visited frequently by people from all over the world. Although it's difficult to gauge exactly how many people visit the site each day, Silver has received at least one e-mail a week from people who have seen the site - some as far away as Okinawa, Japan. Tarkanian's home page is located at http://www.tarkanian.com. |
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