When I first typed in the website and pressed enter, I though I had gone to ESPN, then I thought I was in SI (they've gone that way as well) and finally I noticed the Yahoo! icon. Thanks Yahoo, going for the glossy BIG PICTURE way of websites. I definitely like the word orientated one much better, simple, neat, and doesn't eat up half of my daily 50 MB restriction. First the mssage boards were all messed up, and now the NBA sports page.
Great post. I've used Yahoo's NBA site since 1996 for most of my generic surfing (AP, box scores), because it was text-based and easy to load. Even on the superfast connection, that means a lot. I don't like this, this isn't needed, but you have a whole crew of programmers there that have to protect their phony-baloney jobs. Yahoo has spent a TON of money over the last two years hiring (just look at all the names they've added to their columnist roster over the last few years, aside from the NBA), and this is just the logical -- and disappointing -- extension of that. EDIT: that said, I haven't liked a SINGLE website change initially in the history of surfing, over a decade now, and I'm sure everyone is on board with me there. Every change to Yahoo/ESPN/SI/FOX/whatever has been met with a groan from us. And yet, when SI.com changed its front page this week: made the columnists more front and center, made the most popular columns easy to read, gave equal pub to three different areas/stories/leagues, I liked it. I actually liked it, it was heaps better than what was there before, and that isn't the company schill talking. They don't schill me enough scrill for me to be a schill.
I use Yahoo for all of my sports searchs & articals. The new layout SUCKS! I loved how simple it was to navigate & find whatever you'd need. 2 thumbs down...
I was also forced by yahoo to get the new toolbar. I hate it so much. And the worst part is there is no way to go back to the old one.
