My ESPN.com paper

Cory W. Reed
Eng. 121
8/7/2010
Investigating Electronic Communities

ESPN is not only a channel on the television but is also a website. It is a website that sports fans go to on the internet and get the latest news on their favorite sport and teams and also come to play sports games. In this paper about (www.ESPN.com) the reader will read about its details, what it has to offer, and important links that the reader may or may not have known about on this web page.
The background of the homepage starts off as a dark red color than fades off to a dark grey color by the center of the page. From the middle of the page to the end of the page the color had faded to a very light grey color. For the font on the home page all the headliners are in bold print. Under the headliners there are little captions explaining what the headliners are about but those letters are in regular font.
Across the top of the home page are the latest scores from the WGC Bridgestone Invitational, Nascar, MLB, and WNBA. Right under the ESPN logo there is a line of links that include the topics of other information dealing with ESPN: “all sports”, “commentary”, “fantasy”, “video”, “sportsnation”, “cities”, and “the life”. To the right of the web page they show headlines of the most recent things that happened which aired on ESPN news anytime during the day.
With different tabs different subjects appear beneath them. When a ESPN website user clicks on community he or she will find a lot of different bloggers and ombudsman information. There is another link called All Sports and when a user click on this link NFL, MLB, College Football, College Basketball, Golf, Soccer, and etc can be found. The tab called Page 2 on the homepage once clicking on it takes the user to what ESPN calls “A Guys World” that includes different information about sports and comics.
The fantasy tab includes all sports and free games like college pick em up, college showdown, and college football challenge. This page also includes the daily game called Streak for Cash witch is a game different people play and bid on to win money. They bid on different games of basketball, football, soccer, and all the rest of the sports. When you click on the video link the different videos that pops up are the latest high lights of the day an days prier, the ESPN TV shows that a ESPN fan may had missed during sometime of the day and wanted to caught up on what they missed. Other headliners on this page of videos are Original Digital and the Countdown Daily.
On this website are able to look up facts about players that a user of the site would want to find out about. For example when you tyoe in Babe Ruth in the search bar his stats pop up, so then you are able to click on career stat an once this page pops up his birthday, which hand he throw with and bated with. It also tells us what year he was inducted in to the hall of fame which was 1936, an also every year he was in the MLB what he did every year.
The community that ESPN the website is for is the sports lovers. The reason I say it’s for a sports lover community is because everything on the website has to do with some kind of sport. The sports lovers who like to blog but blog about a certain sport or just give their opinion on something that is going on in the sports world they are able to. They are also able to take their favorite sport an players of that sport in put them on the same team can play against other people an when prizes. This site is also a site where you can learn a lot more about sports that you may or may not have new about be for.
After reading this paper I how the next time the reader goes on www.espn.com he or she can notice the detail, what it has to offer, and the important links that is on the website. Cause this website is a very helpful and educating website from the videos to just the head stores that may be on the home page that day.