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Sunday, July 5, 1998 THE HARTFORD COJRANT E3 CT FAN Please visit our web site: www.ctfan.com -mail: ctftnOerois.com BY BRAD GILCHRIST ESPN Looks To Stay In The Zone FROM THE TPC AT RIVER HIGHLANDS. now. volved in the programming side WHAT DO YOU i THINK THEY'RE WHAT TME HECK ARE YOU FROGS DOING ON THE GOLF COURSE, om cam RULING rtAWw on this, Wmms PLEASE DOING HERE, DAVE? ANYWAY? NO NO WE HAP i TO GET 'THE FROGS' FOR CELEBRITY APPEAL CO taws. CYBERSPORTS PAUL ROSANO Competition is increasing, but ESPN SportsZone (www.espn.com) has no peer yet in sports coverage on the Net SportsZone, which went live in April 1995, is the most comprehensive site, and has earned credibility and respect from the Internet community. Yet it's taken quite awhile for it to garner that same credibility within its own walls.

For a long time, SportsZone, located in Bristol with ESPN the sports cable industry leader wasn't taken that seriously by its broadcast counterpart But times are changing, and it appears it won't be long before SportsZone will not only be regarded on equal ground but will also become more integrated with the broadcast side of ESPN. Perhaps as early as this fall "It's an ongoing process," said Jim Jenks, executive producer of SportsZone. "Are we where we want to be? No. Do we have a great opportunity with this football season coming up and expansion of ESPN's programming? We've got a lot of opportunities to put some programming on the table for them. Get us good exposure on television and for them to get good exposure on the Internet That's where our focus is headed with them.

Be partners." With SportsZone's continuing affiliation with official league sites such as NFL.com and NBA.com, Jenks said eliminating redundancy is also a priority for the coming year. "The goal is to not duplicate efforts," Jenks said. "It's to streamline the whole engineering, production process and work to integrate SportsZone with the leagues as well as the broadcast side. We're looking to integrate and streamline wherever we can." Linking Up Access Software (www.access-software.com), developers and pub-Ushers of the top selling golf simulation "Links LS 98," announced two new golf titles for release this fall The first "Links LS 99," will feature the third international course in the series, St Andrews Old Course in Scotland, a new tournament environment 3D objects, Internet voice chat and more than 25 new play modes. The other title, "Links Extreme," is described as "golf with an attitude." Chris Jones, executive vice president of Access, said it's "Indiana Jones meets Happy Gil-more on the golf course.

It's designed for the golfer who wants to bend the rules, demolish some clubs, but most importantly, win at all costs." Should be interesting. For the first time, ESPN will be offering football programming seven days a week this fall with a nightly "NFL Tonight" to augment its "NFL Countdown" and "NFL Pri-metime" broadcasts. Jenks said the collaboration between Net and broadcast teams is still in the idea stages, but he offered one possible scenario. "I would love to get users more involved on the broadcast side with user questions, maybe in a round-table format" Jenks said. "One example would be to take the quarter-backs, Mark Malone, Ron Jaworski, Joe Theismart Sean Salisbury who are on the broadcast team and have the users on the Net ask them questions on the air.

It's a different form of talking heads, but it allows users to be part of the program." This type of interaction could offer a more spontaneous discussion than chats, which SportsZone regularly offers on-line. "In this case, if the user throws out the question, it becomes a debatable topic," Jenks said. "That's what our users want a greater recognition from the television personalities on the Net This football season is the prototype. We have a unique setup here, where we can deliver an integration package that sets the way it's done. We want to get in i --an irti.ii...pniinr rW) ft LETTERS UConn Women's Players Go The Extra Mile Sports editor Last weekend, we took a ride to pick up some frozen yogurts to bring home to our kids.

One of our chil daughter's day and making her recuperation a bit easier to endure. The brief time you spent with Kelly, together with your genuine kind ness and concern, will always be remembered fondly. Ken and Sandy Poppe Vernon dren, Kelly, is 13 and a big UConn women's basketball fan. She recently had back surgery and is in a body cast, confined to a hospital bed in our dining room for six months. While we intended to bring home something for Kelly, we could have never imagined how special this trip would turn out When we entered the store, we immediately recognized three young women whose names just happened to be Stacy, Shea and Paige.

We shared Kelly's story and asked for a huge favor if they could visit our home to say hi to our daughter. Without hesitating, they agreed to follow us the 2 miles (out of their 1 A 1 i jLif TtRLSi TIRES 1 TIRES i ft TIKES i 31 1 1 TIRES 4 TIRES I 1 4 TIRES jj I WJM lifisri IPS JjS i Li tea (ISB! yrtfiflk AttxA nHolyVf ssssra '-0d way) to our house. For our daughter, it was a major event that brought a huge smile to her face. For us, it exemplified the good things we sel dom see or hear about college ath letes today, and we thought it was important to share this story. Stacy Hansmeyer, Shea Ralph and Paige Sauer are examples of the good people, not just terrific student athletes, coach Geno Auriemma has welcomed to his program and to our state.

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