Website Analysis

For this assignment, we are supposed to choose between two websites that offer the relatively same product to customers. I chose ESPN and CBS Sportsline for my two topics. Both of these websites offer a full range of items such as fantasy sports, gametrackers, etc. They also cover the same sports, as well as they can give you up to date scores and stories about what is going on in the sports world. Personally, I am a fan of ESPN, partly because this network has ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN3, giving me more than enough sports to choose from during the day. With ESPN3, i am able to have free access to view many sporting events happening right at that second. With CBS Sportsline, this option if very limited if even available at all. On the other hand, when in comes to March Madness, CBS is on top of it all. They cover all these games on television, as well as give them to you for free online to watch. Another difference between these two is that different writers work for each station, so you will have access to many different stories that happen every day. This creates a special variety of topics you would otherwise not even hear about if there was only one site giving their information to the world. Having two networks such as ESPN and CBS keeps the competitive edge up every day, just how it is with sports. Without this competitive edge, these stories would be pointless, and sports in general would become boring. The dramatic acts Chad Ochocinco pulls on the off the field would be forever lost. Terrell Owens would never have pulled out a sharpie to autograph a football after a touchdown. Joe Horn would not have called his mother after he scored. The fun of the game would be lost without these networks and the media making the game (any game) what it is today. Every second there is a reporter out there getting more and more information to publish a story about a sports athlete, good or bad, it doesn't matter, because the people just need to know what is going on. Yes, some stories are false, and because of that we make false judgements. But if it were not for the media, sports would be nothing like they are today, and we have most specifically ESPN and CBS Sportsline to thank.