Sun-Times News Group Announces Exciting Interactive Enhancements and Features for Yourseason.com
Get Ready For Kickoff: Yourseason.com Offers More Video, More Blogs, More Schools Than Ever Before, In Time For Chicago Area High School Sports Season
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Sun-Times News Group today announced new, exciting enhancements to
Yourseason.com, the best source for all high school sports scores, news
and information across the Chicago area and Northwest Indiana.
High school sports fans will continue to find the best and most
comprehensive high school sports news coverage around on Yourseason.com
for football, volleyball, soccer and more. What’s
new is that the site is more interactive than ever and has new features.
The highlights:
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Sports fans can now easily contribute photos and videos on
Yourseason.com, and they can easily post comments to news stories and
blogs.
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Users get to be sports reporters: They can easily notify Sun-Times
News Group staff of final scores via text messages; they will still be
able to sign up and have sports scores texted to them as well.
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Users will find more videos of games than ever before, and they can
submit videos, too.
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Yourseason.com links are easily found on Sun-Times News Group
newspaper Web sites, and vice versa.
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Social networking: High school sports fans can now recommend and
bookmark stories and submit links to our stories and content to sites
including Digg, del.icio.us and Facebook.
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Users can sign up for RSS Feeds to get the news about their favorite
school and favorite sport.
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“Countdown to Kickoff”
– Yourseason.com has begun its “Countdown
to Kickoff” feature, which counts down the
top 10 football teams in the area, one each day until the first game.
The top five teams will all have video previews to go along with the
story and photo gallery.
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380 Football Previews - Yourseason.com will feature football previews
for all 380 Chicago area schools, the most comprehensive
preview section in the state, if not the country.
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Yourseason.com will carry provocative blogs from two of the best-known
prep football recruiting analysts in Illinois, Tim O'Halloran and Tom
Lemming.
Yourseason.com will update the Sun-Times News Group’s
popular online pages for 380 high schools across the region, sports
blogs by recruiting experts, and player pages for top football prospects
in the area. Additionally, readers can continue to find their favorite
high school sports columnists – including the
Chicago Sun-Times’ Steve Tucker and Tina
Akouris; R.J. Gerber from the Courier News in Elgin; Dick Goss of the
Herald News in Joliet, and Tony Baranek of the SouthtownStar - at
Yourseason.com.
“There is simply no better interactive source
of local high school sports news and information than Yourseason.com,”
said Ro Kumar, Chief Technology Officer of the Sun-Times News Group. “High
school sports fans are going to love Yourseason.com and all of the new,
exciting features.”
High school sports coverage is provided by trusted print and online news
providers across the Sun-Times News Group network, including the Chicago
Sun-Times; The Beacon News (Aurora), The Herald News (Joliet), Lake
County News-Sun, The Courier News (Elgin), SouthtownStar, The Naperville
Sun, Pioneer Press and Post-Tribune (Merrillville, Ind.).
About the Sun-Times News Group
The Sun-Times News Group is the operating subsidiary of Sun-Times Media
Group, Inc. (OTCBB:SUTM), which is dedicated to being the premier source
of local news and information for the greater Chicago area. Its media
properties include the Chicago Sun-Times and Suntimes.com as well as
newspapers and Web sites serving more than 200 communities across
Chicago. Further information can be found at www.thesuntimesgroup.com.
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Sun-Times News Group
Tammy Chase, Director of Investor Relations
(312)
321-3230
tchase@suntimes.com