Sports Fan Fervor Goes Online June 23rd, 2009
Tom Amontree

From tennis to fantasy football, sports fans have a vast array of broadband-powered options to catch the latest game or network online.  This week’s Wimbledon event is a prime example of the new sports culture in our digital age.  Thanks to ESPN, tennis fans can now enjoy unprecedented, free access to live broadband and mobile coverage of the Wimbledon tournament via ESPN360.com and ESPN Mobile.

Covering all courts live from the early rounds through the semi-finals, ESPN will offer nearly 650 hours of Wimbledon coverage, on top of the 275 hours of French Open coverage that ESPN ran recently.  For fans who are hungry for even more, smart phone applications provide the latest Wimbledon news, live scores, and video highlights.  And for social networking sports enthusiasts, FanZone combines the best Wimbledon quotes and bits from the blogosphere from Twitter, Facebook, and more.

Not a tennis fan?  No problem.  Today’s broadband landscape offers social networking sites and applications for every kind of sport.  From fantasy football draft tracking to baseball scores and PGA schedules, these real-time updates offer everything from statistics to ski and surf conditions.  And, perhaps the best news of all, many of these tools and resources are free.

So whether you plan to watch Wimbledon on your mobile device for that grand slam match point, or tune into other sports news and updates, broadband is speeding unlimited entertainment options to sports enthusiasts everywhere.

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