Dear loyal sportsTALK.com users, (6/07/2001) Thank you for your patience over the last few months as sportsTALK.com has undergone a major transition. We truly appreciate the hundreds of warm e-mails we received celebrating our return. It's my pleasure to announce that sportsTALK.com has teamed up with ESPN.com to provide you with an exciting new product called ESPN INSIDER. ESPN INSIDER will provide sportsTALK fans with all of the latest rumors, newspaper links, daily features and edgy content that you've come to expect from sportsTALK over the last few years. All of sportsTALK's key writers including Terry Brown, Ryan Early, Dayn Perry, Matt Kelchner and Mike Florio will be part of ESPN INSIDER. In addition, ESPN will bring many of their resources to bear on the project. This will mean more features, the ability to have your favorite team's or player's stories always appear on the front page, a much more advanced and searchable link system and many other innovative additions. In other words, sportsTALK on steroids. Many of you have asked us about our plans to turn sportsTALK into a subscription site. Given the difficulty of getting revenue from the internet, we feel that a subscription fee is absolutely necessary for us to be able to provide you with the type of in-depth information we bring on a daily basis. We strongly believe that there is no where else on the net where you can find the quality and quantity of information that you get on sportsTALK each day. Therefore, ESPN INSIDER will be a premium content site. For a low yearly rate, subscribers will be able to access all of the information provided by sportsTALK. For the past two weeks, sportsTALK has been offering a free sneak preview of our rumor pages and several of our features. We are now in the process of finalizing our transition into ESPN and are planning a launch of ESPN INSIDER on Monday June 11th. Per our request, we've asked ESPN to contact you in the next few days with a sweetheart deal -- a special discounted subscription rate for sportsTALK users. We sincerely hope you will support us in this next endeavor. We are excited about the possibilities and feel that by joining ESPN, sportsTALK will be able to take our game the next level. ------------------ "Break off the block like Maurice Green" --- Steve Francis President of the Moochie Norris fan club.
Woo hoo, another site I can say "Screw you" to. I hate when good free sites turn to subscriptions and big corporations. ------------------ "Light travels faster than sound, so some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak." -- Brian Williams (now Bison Dele) commenting on Isiah Thomas.
ESPN does it to everything they take over. ------------------ President of the Committee to prevent the drafting of Gerald Wallace to Houston anytime before #23 "You know who the best rebounder in Chicago is? The trainer chasing all of Wallace's missed shots."------NBAtalk
I'm going to have to pay for the subscription, unless it's an unreasonable rate. NBAtalk is too addicting, too much info... must have!!! It's frustrating that it won't be free anymore, but when you have a site than has developed and grown to the extent that it has, you know it has to come eventually. ------------------ President of the Mo Taylor and Jason Collier fan club! Draftsource.net-- the premier source for draft info. Profiles, rankings, mock drafts, and more!
Clutch, please don't sell ClutchCity.net. ------------------ Technically speaking, we're #1! ~Portland fans
Realgm offers a similar service in summarizing and linking newspapers for free. They, of course, don't have the same "insider info" nor the edgy commentary, if you're into that sort of thing. ------------------ RealGM Gafford Art Artisan Cakes
I refuse to pay for information that I can get for free elsewhere. I enjoyed NBATalk, but most of its content was based on newspaper articles from various cities (which are free). ------------------ Bingbong was set up, led to an untimely death in the prime of his life for no other reason than pure malice. Things like that do not go unavenged. Sometimes it spills out onto the field of play.
Well Sportstalk sold out. They're just going to be ESPN lite. You saw what happened to all those sites that sold out to Rivals. Even if Rivals had survived, the site were to boring and restrictive. Sportstalk is dead. I guess I'll have to visit some new sites for info. I don't buy into that theory. If that were true CC.net would have become a pay site, especially with the number of hits it gets. The people at Sportstalk got an offer from ESPN, saw dollar signs flash before their eyes, and sold out. ------------------ "I'm not here to protect my reputation, I'm here to make my reputation! Mama Barkley didn't raise no chumps!" - Charles Barkley [This message has been edited by RocksMillenium (edited June 08, 2001).]
