
Web Wide World of Sports
Sports covered
in
great detail include football, basketball, baseball and hockey, with schedules, drafts and
video
highlights of recent games. There's also soccer news, including
international game
results, and cycling information, with Tour de France reports. Link to other popular
sports, like
ultimate frisbee, volleyball, rugby, golf, running, rowing, figure and speed skating, and
tennis or go to
international games like the Olympics and the Goodwill Games. You can even create a
personalized
sports page using an interactive form to access only the sports information you're most
interested in. *
ESPNET SportsZone
Top sports stories
Basketball
This
is the most complete place for basketball information on the WWW. Daily coverage
includes every
team and player in the NBA, ABL, WNBA, and NCAA with up-to-date information on schedules, scores, team
stats, league
leaders and team rosters. During the playoff rounds, get complete information on the
brackets and
series standings. In the archives, look up stats from years gone by, including
championships, top-ten
player salaries, drafts, team histories, year-by-year award results and all-time leaders.
Soccer
Soccer fans can find information on the game all over the WWW. Connect to it all from
this
handy site. Here you'll find all the latest standings for most European countries and
Japan. You'll also
get results and news from the international championships, such as the World Cup and
the European
Cup. An archive includes information on all World Cups, European Championships and
Intercontinental Cups, as well as records of title-holders and news on teams by country.
For even
more soccer stuff, link to other Internet soccer resources, such as newsgroups and
WWW sites.
Planet Soccer
Planet Soccer has high quality photos and soccer information which are updated
constantly allowing anyone to follow their
favourite teams around the planet.
*S.W.A.T. Baseball*
Excellent comprehensive site.
Baseball
Source for the latest regarding both the major and minor leagues.
NFL & NCAA Football
The news in these and other leagues.
NHL Hockey
The NHL Today: latest game stories, archives, schedules, stats, and more.
Tennis Server
Visit here for all the latest tennis news and information. You'll find the ATP Tour
weekly
electronic newsletter and coverage of major championships. Get player and equipment
tips from the
pros and read courtside reports on recent games and championships. You'll also find the
rules and
codes of tennis and photographs of all the hot stars. Don't forget to visit the Racquet
Workshop, the
first tennis store on the Internet, where you can order tennis equipment and gifts. When
you're done
here, you can link to an even wider range of tennis information found elsewhere on the
Internet.
Backcountry Home Page
Hikers and outdoors types will love this archive of backcountry-related information.
Get tips
and recommendations on gear, suggestions for improving your backcountry skills and
advice on not
getting lost. One useful feature, "Distilled Wisdom," covers subjects ranging from
backcountry ethics
to snakebites. Tour a photographic gallery of backcountry trips. A section of "odds and
ends"
includes weather information for many places around the globe and lists of the highest
points in each
state and the seven natural wonders of the world. Don't skip the "miscellaneous" link,
which has such
interesting gems as Appalachian Trail videos, a backpacker's wilderness test and a
connection to the
search-and-rescue BBS.
The Cyber Dojo
The Cyber Dojo, a forum for discussion of traditional Japanese and Okinawan karate,
spans
the world, with members in twenty countries, and represents the styles of over 147 karate
organizations. Here karate enthusiasts will discover much useful information, such as a
list of
international events and a bibliography of karate-related materials. One high point is the
kata list, an
encyclopedia of prearranged movements for different beginning and advanced series,
with each
movement explained and illustrated. You'll also find a dictionary of karate
terminology.
From the Dojo, you can connect to other martial-arts resources on the Internet, including
videos and
photographs.
Go West
The ultimate outdoors site for hiking, biking, camping, rock climbing. A
searchable database of 35,000 campgrounds. Weather, drought and forest
fire information. Interactive area includes chat, bulletin board, games,
and a kid's section.
Great Outdoor Recreation Pages
The Virtual Flyshop
This forum for Internet flyfishers holds lots of interesting, multimedia information
about the
sport. Travel to great fishing spots through photographs of Great Bear Lake, the Bow
River and
Glovers Reef in Belize. A hypermedia magazine features fictional fishing stories and
real-life trip
reports, complete with photographs. Learn new knots at the knot page or watch a
flyfishing movie.
One highlight is the fish scale: enter the length, species and "fatness factor" of a fish you
caught into an
interactive form and find out how much it weighed. The site also connects to newsgroups,
discussion
archives and other WWW sites on flyfishing throughout the Internet.
WorldWideAngler
The latest in fishing news (both fresh water and salt), tournament results, conservation information, message boards,
product updates, regional coverage of the Northeast, Chesapeake, and Florida Regions (with weather, ramp and tide info).
* Research and most text on this page by Shannon R. Turlington