ESPN.com
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| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| Created by | ESPN, Inc. |
| Website |
espn |
| Alexa rank |
 77 (November 2015)[1] |
| Commercial | yes |
| Registration | available, but not required |
| Launched |
July 1993 (as ESPNet.SportsZone.com) |
| Current status | active |
ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN and a division of ESPN Inc.
History
Since launching in July 1993[2] as ESPNet.SportsZone.com, the website has developed numerous sections including: Page 2, SportsNation, ESPN3, ESPN Motion, My ESPN, ESPN Sports Travel, ESPN Video Games, ESPN Insider, ESPN.com's Fanboard, ESPN Fantasy Sports, ESPNU.com, and ESPN Search. ESPN.com also has partnerships with MLB.com, NBA.com, NFL.com, WNBA.com, MLSsoccer.com NHL.com, Baseball America, Golf Digest, Scouts Inc., Jayski.com, USGA.org, Sherdog.com and Masters.org.
It also has sections devoted to certain sports and leagues including: the National Hockey League, National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, NASCAR, Indy Racing League, NCAA, Golf, Soccer, Women's sports (ESPNW), cricket, and eSports. Each section contains pages devoted to: scores, teams, schedules, standings, players, transactions, news wires, injures and columnists pages.
Columnists
Some notable ESPN.com columnists are John Buccigross, Chris Mortensen, John Clayton, Adam Schefter, Andy Katz, Bill Simmons, Jayson Stark, Buster Olney, Gene Wojciechowski, Scoop Jackson, Pat Forde, Jim Caple, and Michael Smith. The website was part of the MSN portal from 2001 to 2004.[3][4] ESPN launched a Spanish language website in 2000, ESPN Deportes.com.[5] The content of some ESPN.com articles is argued to have been plagiarized.[6]
Local sites
ESPN started local chapters of its website in response to the decline of local sports coverage available as newspapers continue to go out of business across the country.[7] Each page covers local professional and college teams, hiring locally known writers, and in some cases making use of the city's ESPN Radio affiliate. In markets where the ABC Owned Television Stations owns a station, their sports coverage is incorporated with the corresponding ESPN local site. Some local sites have expanded into high school sports coverage.
Current
- ESPNBoston.com - with affiliate WEEI
- ESPNChicago.com - with WMVP and WLS-TV
- ESPNCleveland.com - with affiliate WKNR
- ESPNDallas.com - with KESN
- ESPNLosAngeles.com - with KSPN and KABC-TV
- ESPNNewYork.com - with WEPN-FM and WABC-TV
References
- ↑ "Espn.go.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ↑ http://espn.go.com/blog/afcwest/post/_/id/59870/peyton-manning-high-on-jaws-list
- ↑ ESPN.com, MSN tie up for online sports coverage - CIOL, 8 September 2001
- ↑ Game on for MSN, Fox Sports site - CNET, 28 June 2004
- ↑ ESPN Deportes celebra 10 años - Business Wire
- ↑ Koblin, John (November 26, 2012). "Media Experts Dan Okrent, Jack Shafer, and David Carr Discuss ESPN's Plagiarism Problem: "If I Were Them, I Would Be Embarrassed"".
- ↑ ESPN: The local leader in sports?