Long Island Newsday's school sports section is the third link that appears on Google when searching for "High school sports," and they deserve it. And not just for having links to the paper's coverage of "H.S. Bowling" and "H.S. Riflery".
Delving in, the paper's prep sports site is pretty awesome. There's a lot done right here; from the easy access to individual schools' schedules, photos and scores on the right side of the front page (none of these are typically easy to find) to this list of college commitments by current and former school student-athletes. Yes, Newsday ... I was interested in knowing Whitman's Caitlin Young went to the Air Force Academy for fencing in 2004!
Perhaps the best part of Newsday's commitment list: It looks to be almost entirely user-created, with a link to send e-mail alerts of athletes' school choices. Just today, I spent 10 minutes responding to a message board post asking where local girls soccer players went to school ... if my paper had this page, I could've sent a link, rather than cutting and pasting snippets of All-Scholastic capsules. Free, informative copy that will save me time? Sign me up.
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