Some
people play sports. Their
fans watch enthusiastically. Those
who don’t play or watch tell jokes about sportsmen.
I enjoyed one in particular that I picked up from the Internet
the other day:
Two
businessmen, out playing golf, found themselves behind two women on
the golf course. The
women managed to play into practically every sand trap, water hole and
rough on the links, making the men wait behind them. As
they didn’t follow the normal golf etiquette of inviting the men to
play through, one of the businessmen offered to walk ahead and ask if
they could play through.
He
walked half way down the fairway, turned around and returned, saying
to his colleague, “One of them was my wife and the other my
mistress”!
Hearing
this, his colleague offered to go and ask the ladies if they could
play through. When he got
half way down the fairway, he stopped and came back.
All
he could say was, “Small world”!
Golf
fans and followers of other sports can find many Internet sites
devoted to the games. For
the latest sports news, a number of Web sites offer scores, standings,
articles, commentaries and predictions.
Some even have audio or video coverage.
Sportsnetwork
has daily news on NFL results, Golf Tournaments, NBA scores,
College Football, NHL and Baseball coverage.
ESPN
Network not only provides headline sports news, game results and
sports articles, but has direct links to sites like NFL and NFA as
well as to sites covering matches. ESPN also reports on tennis and
soccer matches. The soccer page features all of the league standings,
recent game scores and leading scorers in each of the divisions.
The
NFL website has
all the latest National Football League (USA) news, scores and
statistics for the American football fan. It also has a page for each
of the teams in the National and American Leagues.
Providing
the same kind of comprehensive coverage for the avid basketball fan is
the NBA website. They also offer continuous wire service news, a live
scoreboard and video clips.
There’s
also a website for The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
In addition to the
announcements of scheduled cup series, they have a link to the NASCAR
fan club.
Other
than ESPN, network coverage online can be found at several of the
major TV network sites. ABC,
which is a bit slow loading, provides a continuous news update.
CNN
covers both US and World sports news. One
of CNN’s attractive features is the live video coverage of
late-breaking sports news. As they say at their Web site, “If the big sports news
conference is about to start and you find yourself stuck in front of
your computer with not a television in sight, don't worry because
CNN/SI delivers the video directly to your terminal!”
CNN/SI
also carries articles from the leading magazine Sports
Illustrated, including the
ever famous “swimsuit” issues.
Soccernet
has particularly good coverage of European soccer, complete with club
and player profiles, daily news flashes, results, and live scoreboards
with continuous daily updates. Those who want to check previous
performance can get to the last four years' results with a mouse
click.
One
of the interesting things about most of the Internet sports sites is
that they generally have broad coverage of all sports.
In the final analysis, sports fans probably choose their Web
sites simply on the basis of their likes or dislikes of page design
rather than the amount of news coverage provided.
Whatever
your favorite sport, you'll find plenty of coverage on the Internet.
Not only is sports coverage broad, the World Wide Wed sites
devoted to sports are among the most up-to-date on the Net, from
late-breaking news to game, team and league standings.
The articles are current, the player information thorough and
the audio and video coverage lively.
