The fact that we are e-mail based will draw a lot of attention from the advertisers, because we tend to be more educated, and earn bigger bucks. Even though college students have great potential earning power (note how the seniors start getting credit card applications before they even have job offers), the alumn(i/ae) are where the money is. Since ESPN (and all networks, including PBS [don't forget those incessant pledge breaks]) are driven by money, not some altruistic mission of serving the masses, the appeal of reaching people like myself who still follow college hockey many years after graduation is what the advertisers want to see. So for every name, and better yet E-mail address, that is added to that petition from an undergrad at Clarkson, RPI or Maine, it would be useful to have one of us with a '.com' suffix on there, too. Once ESPN sees that college hockey interest isn't limited to college campuses, they very well might start regularly announcing scores, and maybe even picking up some game feeds (ECAC would be an obvious choice since ESPN is based in Conn, and HE is already hooked up with NESN). -John Hughes Amdahl/Advanced Systems (and Clarkson '73) Fremont, CA [log in to unmask]