USSportsPages

USSportspages.com started in the spring of 1997 as a collection of direct links to the sports sections of the major papers in the U.S. -- those in and around cities with major league professional teams. The idea of founder Rich Johnson was (and still is) to save a few clicks getting to the best sources for sports news: The local writers in local pa... pers. From there, we created more collections of links: Columnists, team coverage pages, broadcast sites, Web sites and tools to help professional sports journalists. What if I lose my password? No problem! Just Click Here and enter your email and it will soon arrive in your mailbox. If you continue to have problems, send an email to: contact@ussportspages.com What happens when I click on a link? Once you choose a story or a paper or a writer and click the link in USSportspages.com, you go to that site. You're no longer on the USSportspages.com site. If the site doesn't load, or the material is three days old or is otherwise unacceptable, it's the responsibility of the site. Why isn't there a link to my favorite columnist? It depends on each paper. We can only put up columnist links when the paper gives it writers a consistent URL (Web address). Some of the biggest papers, like New York City's two tabloids, don't do this - so no links to Mike Lupica and Phil Mushnick. Other papers, like the Washington Post, have a consistent URL for a 'columnists' page -- but then each writer's work has a date-specific URL. So you'll have to go to that common columnists page, then scroll down to the writer you want, then go to his/her archive page, then to the individual article. The Chicago Sun-Times' system is the best for us: A single URL for each writer. At that address is a list of the last several columns done by that writer. But in the end, it's up to each paper. What is your relationship with the newspapers? Strictly friends. We've developed many nice online relationships with writers, editors and webmasters, and we encourage you to write! But we have no formal deals with ...Read More