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January 18, 2003
Yahoo! Sports has been redesigned to better compete with ESPN.com and CBS Sportsline: "Over the coming weeks, Yahoo will allow visitors to customize the page according to their preferred teams and leagues." (Via Brian D. Buck)
The best thing about CBS Sportsline is the customization option. It helps to get to the scores I really am looking for, instead of having to click through several links to get there. I hope Yahoo gives us a similar option to design an individual sports site with customizable pages. Several times in the past, I have emailed ESPN to do the same thing, but I apparantly am in the minority there.
posted by jasonbondshow at 12:21 PM on January 18, 2003
The design is very busy for Yahoo, and moves them away from the clean, simple design that's their trademark. (I've always thought their information design was kind of clunky, but their overall look is simple.) The 3D raised button navigation bar doesn't go with their usual look. This design looks like the early stages of a comp that would eventually become a clone of ESPN's design. (I know this is probably the final design and not an evolutionary comp, but it looks like one.) The customization stuff is pretty cool; maybe ESPN will copy them.
posted by kirkaracha at 12:43 AM on January 19, 2003
My biggest beef with the redesign is that I can't see all the current NBA, NHL, CBB, at one time. It was nice to just scroll down the left side of the page and not have to click to several different pages. I tried fooling with the customization options, but I can't get the full scoreboards back.
posted by mbd1 at 12:51 PM on January 19, 2003
What, no soccer? Premier League? How about just MLS? It's an outrage, I tell you! An outrage!
posted by worldcup2002 at 10:51 AM on January 20, 2003
I'll say this for it: it certainly loads a lot faster than espn's home page. If the quality of the content follows, count me in.