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Wednesday, April 19, 2000 ESPN.com and SchoolSports.com Join Forces GO.com's ESPN.com and SchoolSports.com, a high school sports website, have joined forces, making SchoolSports.com the exclusive provider of high school sports news and information on ESPN.com. Visitors to Through SchoolSports.com, visitors to ESPN.com will have access to local schedules, scores, and standings and national and local polls. ``This agreement with SchoolSports.com enables us to extend our top-notch coverage to the high school ranks,'' said John Kosner, vice president, programming and broadband development, ESPN.com. ``We pride ourselves with providing fans with unparalleled sports coverage, regardless of the playing level, and we anticipate the SchoolSports.com content's becoming an extremely popular part of ESPN.com as interest in high school sports continues to grow.'' ``ESPN.com is where people go to get breaking sports news, and SchoolSports.com is proud to be able to provide visitors access to a new resource to keep them up-to-date on the latest high school sports news and information,'' said Grant Son, president and CEO of SchoolSports. ``Aligning with ESPN.com is a terrific opportunity to expand our reach and increase exposure for high school sports and student-athletes across the country. High school sports and fans of high school sports win in this relationship.'' SchoolSports is a resource for high school sports participants, coaches and fans. SchoolSports has built website tools which allow coaches, athletes, fans, and administrators to create online high school sports communities for the sharing of, and access to, relevant and vital information such as game and practice schedules, scores, statistics, rules and regulations, etc. SchoolSports also connects with the high school community and teens by publishing local magazine editions in ten cities distributed in schools. Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter. www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2011 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved.