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Last summer, while working here in Cambridge, I snuck away frequently to enter the world of ESPNet, following the Lions' training camp (and praying, secretly, for something to happen to Wayne Fontes), the Pistons' firing of Don Chaney and hiring of Doug Collins and the sad tale of Gary Moeller, the former Michigan football coach who had one bad night...
Everybody has diversions during exam time. Some run around the Yard naked; I check ESPNet every five minutes (scores are updated every minute) to get a blow-by-blow account of my teams. I remember the string of heartbreaking one-point losses by the Pistons and the seemingly never-ending streak of Red Wings' victories...
...became too much for Suck, a trendy online journal, which posted a spirited complaint about HotWired's "constant needling" and noted that rival bashing swapped places only with "back patting" on HotWired's Web pages. Look for a return volley on HotWired this week. In another online mud fight, ESPNET SportsZone unleashed a filtering program designed to keep employees of rival SportsLine USA out of its site (which is open to everyone else on the planet). Maybe it's time...
...there also have also been a few disturbing developments. Some of the services of ESPNet, the sports network's internet arm, now require a monthly fee for user access. Information that was free three months ago is now available only on a pay basis...