By: Joe Strupp Minnesota Viking fans who want to know what St. Paul Pioneer Press sports columnist Bob Sansevere thinks of the way the team is playing during a game don't have to wait until the next day to find out. They don't even have to wait until the next quarter.
Thanks to the newspaper's online game commentary, begun last season, fans need only click on the paper's Web site, http://www.pioneerplanet. com, to get instant reaction from columnists and reporters covering the game live.
"I think it provides a unique type of coverage," said sports editor Emilio Garcia-Ruiz. "It allows us to write live game stories."
But for National Football League executives, who take copyright issues seriously, the game-time reports have ruffled some feathers. League officials have urged the newspaper to stop the Web reports on at least two occasions so far. "The nfl has a history of vigorously defending its properties," nfl spokesman Brian McCarthy told Minneapolis/St. Paul's Business Journal. "We do this to protect our rights."
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