Sunday, February 6, 2011

ESPN.com: a non-biased news source.

Looking for a reliable website to get the latest sports coverage ranging from football to gymnastics? ESPN.com, a website established by the producers of the Entertainment and Sports Production Network (ESPN), gives up to date sports related information to any followers across the world. By supplying news stories, video and audio coverage, forums, fantasy sports, and games all in one convenient website.
The website itself is easy to access for all of its users. The home page is convenient and information is very accessible, having all of the sports in which ESPN.com has coverage on in an information bar at the top of the screen. In this information bar, each sport has multiple newsworthy subcategories including scores of the latest games, rankings in each conference, individual and team statistics, and multiple other features.
Not into popular American sports including Football, Baseball, and NASCAR? That’s fine! ESPN.com has coverage on multiple other sports including international Futbol, Cricket, Rugby, Poker, and Mixed Martial Arts.
ESPN.com also has different websites for different continents that have extra coverage on the generally preferred sports of the area. ESPN Asia, United Kingdom, Australia and Brazil all have these said websites.
For those who prefer other forms of media to receive news, ESPN.com provides video and audio coverage for all sports. Popular talk show radio show Mike and Mike in the Morning speaks about a wide variety of sports on the show. In addition, radio coverage and commentating of sports game can be live streamed directly off of the website. Games, interviews, and press conferences are also regularly recorded and are available for live stream on the video section of the website.
For additional entertainment, ESPN.com supplies Fantasy Sports, a game involving individuals creating their own teams consisting of players in the professional league of their choice. Teams compete in a face-to-face match up where each player’s individual progress awards his or her team a certain amount of points.
ESPN.com is a great source of sports news for any type of coverage. Although many other websites may supply more information on a certain sport than ESPN.com does, it is a very consistent and non-biased sports website.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Friday, January 21, 2011

Expansion of Lacrosse Hits Wyoming Valley


Casey Flynn, a Senior Lacrosse player at Wyoming Seminary Upper School in Kingston, Pa, talks about the development of Lacrosse in Northeastern Pennsylvania since he began playing four years ago. 

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Wyoming Seminary's McMullan Verbally Commits

Senior attackman Patrick McMullan (Blue) has made a verbal commitment to play collegiate lacrosse at the Rochester Institute of Technology. 

Monday, January 10, 2011

Where should I look?


Looking for a credible search engine? Students at Wyoming Seminary Upper School in Kingston, Pa. are accessing Proquest Historical Newspapers, an Internet database that creates specialized information resources and technologies, for Historical research. Developed in the 1980’s, Proquest allows students to have access to billions of primary history sources inside newspapers dating back into the early twentieth century. With a simple click of a button, all of these sources can be in its users’ hands.

ProQuest Historical Newspaper has digital archived full text and image articles dating from the early 1900s. Ivy Miller, a Librarian at the Wyoming Seminary Upper School Kirby Library, admitted her appreciation of using an online database. With access to these sources, “Students can link to a lot of qualified sources [simultaneously],” said Miller. Every issue of these articles is complete with all bibliographical information and the complete newspaper cover-to-cover. All newspapers can also be easily downloaded into a preview format and printed. Students and teachers find Proquest as a useful source of relevant historical data. “No matter what the subject matter contains, I go to Proquest,” said Jack Cartwright, a senior at Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School in Kingston, Pa, when asked about the database. His reasons for using Proquest were simple. He said, “it is not only easy to use, but the articles on the database are also the most credible sources on the Internet.” Proquest’s unique collection of newspapers and other relevant sources is both authentic and sophisticated, because it provides the tools needed that to access information easy.

Proquest has been recognized on an international level one of the top databases in the world. This past November, ProQuest was named to the EContent 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. Also in 2007, ProQuest won the distinguished Red Hat Innovation Award, which is given to the world’s leading provider of open source solutions overcoming technology challenges. The International Information Industry honored ProQuest Smart Search, one of the features of the database, with Best Specialist Search Product in 2006. With those credentials, why not give Proquest a chance for that next paper’s research?