kusports

First and foremost I just want to go on record saying I HATE sports. To me, they're...well, pointless. All sports are to me are a bunch of guys running around in tight pants throwing a ball or hitting one, and than when something good happens they all spank each other. Yeah, I don't have a high opinion of sports...probably because I don't understand them and because I have little to no attention span for anything.

Anyway, back to what this post is really about kusports.com...

So, clicking on the site I was unsure of what I was going to find. Well, maybe it was just me and my computer but when the page finally loaded (because it seemed to take forever and a day) the page was completely messed up! Under the heading "More Columns and Blogs" it listed audio and video stuff along with more columns and blogs. Unfortunately that list ran all the way down the page covering up other stories that were featured on the site. I find this to be a bit of a problem because it was hard to read, and honestly made me want to click off the site.

As you would expect to find all the news, for the most part (at least what I found) was focused around sports, but not just the normal basketball, football, baseball, and hockey. The site also offered news in swimming, track and field, cross country, Kansas Relays, soccer, rowing (who knew it was a sport?!?), tennis, volleyball, and bowling. Than under the heading of "essentials" it listed columns, blogs, message boards, recruiting, schedule, statistics, chat transcripts, history, and e-mail alerts. I thought that the e-mail alerts were interesting because of all the sites that were reviewed not one had a place where its viewers could sign up for alerts to keep up to date with whatever is happening, whether in world news or sports. The site also featured multimedia, photos, and podcasts among many miscellaneous features.

The site did offer, in my opinion, plenty of multimedia in the form of both audio and video. All of the other sites offered multimedia, but this site seemed to have more than the rest, considering the list was running down most of my computer screen.

As far as links are concerned, I could not found any specific place for links, or when I clicked to read a few articles I noticed none linked to other sources of information. The only link I did see however was in the form of an advertisement, I think for a car.

Another feature that this site offered was a poll. I've seen this minimally on the other sites, but it seemed that this one was more up front, and not hard to find since it was on the front page. I think that's important because I think more people are willing to participate in a poll if they see it immediately and not have to click on several different place to get to where they want to be. It makes it easier for people, and isn't that what the Internets all about: easiness and quickness?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this site is owned by Lawrence Journal World, which may be the same people who own Lawrence.com, the last, college newspaper site reviewed. With that being said I think it's easy to see that this site is aimed at college students, to sports fans in that area (who have an interest in that KU teams), and to possibly anyone who is an alumni and wants to keep up to date with the sporting events and happenings.

Honestly, I really didn't enjoy reviewing this site. Why? Because it's sports related, and like I said I don't like sports, I don't understand them, and I have no attention span to pay any attention to them. I didn't really care for any of the features offered on this site. This is one site I probably would never, ever visit again...the only reason why I did this time was because I had to.