Seasonticket.com and MLS have launched a personalized
video highlight service, accessible via www.MLSnet.com and
seasonticket.com. Users can create customized highlight
shows and view scores and statistics (Seasonticket.com).
WEB NOTES: The Premier League's Leeds United has
selected SmallWorld.com to build and power its own int'l
soccer fantasy game called Leeds United Fantasy Manager
(SmallWorld.com)....Lycos is holding the Lycos Sports
Charity Tennis Auction, where consumers bid for various
tennis prizes around the U.S. Open. The chance to play
tennis against Martina Hingis went for $1,100. Other options
include spending a day with Octagon tennis agent Tom Ross or
spending a day with tennis coach Dean Goldfine. Items
purchased through the auction will benefit charities like
the World Health Organization's Match Point against Polio
Campaign (Lycos)....Total Sports has added MS State Univ.,
the Univ. of Detroit Mercy and the Big Sky Conference to its
Total Sports College Network with newly designed Web sites
that launched this month (Total Sports)....GOLF WORLD's Stu
Schneider reviews Web sites coverage of the PGA
Championship: "I sampled more than a dozen sites, from
biggies such as ESPN and SportsLine to specialty sites such
as golf.com. Most did some things reasonably well, but
there really wasn't one site that offered the Full Monty."
Schneider, on The Golf Channel's site, which had just been
relaunched: "After heavily promoting a relaunch as 'Golf's
homepage,' technical problems kept it offline for all of
Thursday and part of Friday" (GOLF WORLD, 8/25 issue).
