In Oakland, Tony Kuttner examined the speed with which
sports Web sites are able to update real-time baseball
action. Kuttner: "And the winner is ... not that clear cut.
... It's easier to say which ones are losing than it is to
pick a winner." Kuttner wrote that Nandonet, USA Today and
The Sporting News sites are "in the back of the pack for
being too slow," while Fox and CNN/SI fall "[s]omewhere in
the middle," and CBS SportsLine and ESPN SportsZone are the
"fastest" (OAKLAND TRIBUNE, 4/14)....USA Today's Baseball
Weekly hit a circulation record of 422,881 with its March 25
Season Preview edition. That figure represents an 18.7%
increase from the '97 preview issue, which sold 356,258
copies (Baseball Weekly)....For its coverage of MLS
Revolution road games, WEEI-AM in Boston will pick up the
audio feed from the TV broadcast on Fox Sports New England,
simulcasting the call of announcers Derek Rae and Seamus
Malin. Dale Arnold and Adrian Healey will continue to call
home games (BOSTON GLOBE, 4/14)....A Citizens Action
Committee in NJ will stage a protest this Sunday at its
local Adelphia Cable office because the company has refused
to add Comcast SportsNet to its basic package. Adelphia,
which serves 100,000 area subscribers, has balked at the
cost of adding SportsNet (PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, 4/14).
