Sports Features Communications Gets Ready for the Paralympics with 3,000 Breaking Headlines Live on Olympic Sports News

SportsFeatures.com makes it easy to catch constantly updated news on the Paralympic Games in Athens in one quick place.

TAMPA, Florida, USA -- September 18, 2004 -- Sports Features Communications (SFC) is ready for the opening of the Paralympic Games in Athens with 3,000 breaking headlines of continued coverage of Olympic Sports News at www.sportsfeatures.com . This marks the first Olympic/Paralympic Season that the SFC news gathering system has been live with the site logging over 5 million hits during the Athens Games.

The news gathering system is searching for headlines in over 17,000 sources worldwide 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week as headlines break to bring readers the widest selection of free to view news on elite level sports.

Paralympic news and names in the headlines will be easily searchable in the group with the new Search Headlines feature on the home page of SportsFeatures.com. Just type in your search word and the system will bring up the results from the Olympic News section.

Laura Walden, founder of Sportsfeatures.com, commented that the primary goal was to develop a site compiling all of the Olympic issues in one quick and easy news site. As I media professional I could appreciate the need for this kind of news service targeted towards the Olympics and the Paralympics. Essentially our news service is a handy working tool for journalists following the latest breaking headlines. On the other hand it is the perfect way for sports fans to stay on top of the news. We recently added NFL, NBA, and NFL pro sports news and these are all growing rapidly."

When I started this project over two years ago we were hand editing an average of 60 articles a day. Weve grown to a total 3,000 during this 2004 Olympic Season spanning several days making it easer to follow the issues and topics as they happen."

Sportsfeatures.com also offers a free notice board service. The SFC Press Point section is our area for press releases about sports organizations in the Olympic Movement, teams and sports governing bodies from all over the world. SFC Press Releases are regularly indexed in the Google news system and are an easy no cost way to diffuse information. Be sure to add press@sportsfeatures.com to your press distribution list and link to our site to keep your viewers informed!

The concept of tailored sports news can be designed for any website as SFC also offers a multitude of content solutions.

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