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A review of 10 essential sports-related online destinations for fans, athletes and fantasy owners.
BY PAUL KATCHER
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The Mother Lode: ESPN
One of the Big Three media sites (along with CBS.SportsLine.com and CNNSI.com), ESPN has long been the premier online destination for headlines, scores and stats. Its Page 2 sets it apart from the rest with watercooler-type commentary and features, where we're reminded why we watch sports: it's just plain fun. Recently added to the section's lineup of contributors is hoops hall of famer Bill Walton, who joins the entertaining Sports Guy (Bill Simmons), Hunter S. Thompson and a slew of other equally talented writers.
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Reference: Baseball Reference
This searchable, text-only database of Major League Baseball statistics is an unparalleled bar-stool argument-solver. It's like owning a Total Baseball encyclopedia without putting a 30-pound strain on the bookshelf. From the home page, it takes just two clicks to find out the team batting average of the last-place 1930 Philadelphia Phillies (.315) or the identity of the all-time leader in postseason slugging percentage (Nomar Garciaparra, .936). The player pages are incomparable: Barry Bonds' entry indicates that his career mirrored Greg Luzinski's at age 28, then Mickey Mantle's at 35. |
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