Check NewsLink, sponsored by American Journalism Review ,for links to newspapers and sports periodicals. Except for theformulaic SIOnline, sports periodicals do not providelate-breaking news, and they all offer only a limited selectionof articles at their web sites. NewsLink also connects to TVnetworks that create sports sections for their network sites inorder to hype their sports programs. Expect entertaining andinformative sections with plenty of hype from the networktelevising sports spectacles like the Olympics, Final Four, orSuper Bowl. AudioNet AudioNet, the largest Internetbroadcast network, provides access to radio broadcasts of sportsradio and games, as well as news and music.
Some programs evenpermit users to choose the announcers.
Besides professionalsports, men's and women's college basketball games are alsoavailable. Each of the major professionalsports leagues and nearly all of the teams have official webpages. These sites follow a pattern, trying to inform, hype, andpromote. Such official pages provide a public relations versionof news, which is not to say they're always uninteresting. League sites offer two especiallyinteresting applications.