ESPN'S FANTASY BASEBALL FACES OUTAGE: SERVICE DOWN FOR DAYS

          Users of ESPN's subscription-based Fantasy Baseball
     site "have been sitting on the bench since Sunday due to an
     ongoing outage," according to Wendy Marinaccio of CNET
     News.com, who wrote that the site, part of Disney's Go
     Network, was "apparently shut down for routine maintenance
     this weekend but [had] yet to come back online" as of
     yesterday.  ESPN Internet Ventures Manager of Communications
     Eric Handler said the company has "had some issues with
     Fantasy Baseball."  Handler "could not immediately comment
     about how many members were affected," but Marinaccio noted
     that the site "has sold more than 260,000 premium-tier
     memberships." Some members of the site have complained that
     they "weren't warned about the maintenance period, and that
     they still have no idea when they can get back in the game." 
     However, ESPN did send an e-mail out to members stating that
     "problems ... have rendered the site inaccessible."  No date
     on when the site would be up again was given (CNET, 7/13).