So you're looking for a website that covers sports, and covers it well. For television sports news most people tune into ESPN. So that begs the question is ESPN's website, ESPN.com, worth reading? At first glance, ESPN.com has good imagery - a running slide show of the day's top sports headlines, and a continuous ticker of the days scores above it. Scroll down, and you'll see more in depth articles, opinions, commentaries, videos, polls and links. The site highlights the must see events in sports news, and advertises for the most exciting upcoming games. Another great feature of the site is the different pages for each sport. Are you a big MLB fan? Well ESPN.com has a special page for that with all the latest baseball news along with all other major sports including the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NCAA Basketball and Football, NASCAR, Soccer, as well as many others. No one can accuse ESPN of not being thorough with its coverage of every sport imaginable. The site even has special in depth coverage of sports in major cities such as Boston, New York, L.A., Dallas and Chicago. If you're from one of those cities, there is really no need to pick up the sports section of the paper anymore - it's all there for you.
There are negative aspects of the site as well, however they are far fewer than the positive. For example, anyone who wants to participate in some of the polls or personalize the site, he or she must sign up for a membership. This is not a paid membership, however if you do not want to put your information out there, you are at a disadvantage if you want to use these features.
ESPN.com is a sports website with thorough coverage of every game imaginable. The site is very user-friendly: it is easy to look at, easy to use, and its advantages far outweigh its disadvantages. The choice is yours. Check out ESPN.com and decide whether it's worth reading.
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The students of Wyoming Seminary know the school as one that requires them to do many research papers. Usually students are given these assignments by their history and English classes, and many dread working on them.
However painful these papers may be to complete, the library staff helps ease the pain a little bit by providing students with easy to use databases for finding sources for their papers. The Library subscribes to these databases for a fee. Librarian Ivy Ballard Miller says that the library staff “researches these databases and picks and chooses the ones that we view will be most helpful and effective for the students.” The library offers a list with all of the databases it subscribes to as well as the usernames and passwords that are required to use the sites. Some of these databases include “Annals of American History,” “Gale Science Resource Center,” “Historical Newspapers,” as well as many others.
Cicely Hazell ’11, finds the databases to be very helpful overall. “I find some databases are hard to use, but the History Study Center is really helpful when I’m writing a historical research paper.” Hazell says that it is the first resource she turns to when she is starting a paper. “I can usually find things on the database easier than I can find them on Google. I am glad these resources are available because without them I don’t know what I would do.”
Patrick McMullan ’11 shares the same sentiments as Hazell. “I found the databases especially helpful when I was writing many of my papers for Mr. Lewis’s various classes. He always demanded very detailed papers, and it was very easy to find information on the various sources available through Wyoming Seminary.” McMullan hopes that these resources will be available to him in the future when he attends college because “once you use these databases it is hard to go back to just searching through random books. I like how you can find everything in one place, which allows my research to go much more smoothly.”
As evidenced many Sem students find these databases to be very helpful and use them frequently.
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