Excalibur electronic ABC Sports Sports Master A04 - Manual (Page 5)

opponent in the finals is listed
second.
Spend a few minutes exploring-
you'll find that Sports Master's
arrangement of categories is intu-
itive and logical. You'll quickly
get used to following the clear
trail to the information you want!
Highlights
This category on the main or
home menu contains sports high-
lights for each year since 1998. It
also contains a list of the most
dramatic sports events of the 20th
century!
Rules
This category on the main or
home menu lets you find the rules
for the “big four” of major league
sports! Rules for baseball, basket-
ball, football and ice hockey are
from The Sports Rules Book, 2nd
Ed, 2004, by Human Kinetics and
Thomas Hanlon. (Champaign, IL:
Human Kinetics), pages 23-30,
33-40, 103-108, 137-143.
Stadium Finder
This is another great category
on the home menu. Selecting this
category gives you the “big four”
sports to choose from, plus anoth-
er category called “
OTHER
SPORTS DIRECTORY .” Se-
lecting this last choice gives you
contact information on many less-
er known sports, like the U.S.
Trotting Organization and the
International Game Fish Organ-
ization.
Select one of the big four
sports, and you will see two more
choices:
FACTS
FINDER
Selecting “ FACTS ” will give
you information on that sport's
stadiums by team—for example,
whether it uses artificial turf, its
proper name, the year built, and
Sometimes the
information at the top
of a screen will explain
how the information is
organized.
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ABC MODE
OFF
Now you can press DOWN to
scroll to “Thorp, Jim.” Press
ON/ENTER to read the informa-
tion.
The “ QUICK REFERENCE ”
file combines some of the most
famous names from all sports.
Scroll to this file and press
ON/ENTER . You'll see it's organ-
ized by letters of the alphabet. So
if you want to read about Julius
Erving, you should scroll to the
“
E's ,” press ON/ENTER , and
then scroll down to his entry.
Additionally, please note that
this file may contain some of the
same names you'll find in the
sports categories. So to review all
available information, you may,
for example, want to check both
“
BASEBALL ” and “ QUICK
REFERENCE ” for Hank Aaron.
Facts and Stats
This category on the main or
home menu will resolve many a
sports debate!
Selecting “ FACTS AND
STATS ” gives you the following
sports categories. (You can see
four on the screen at any one time,
but can scroll up or down to read
them all.)
AUTO RACING
BASEBALL
BASKETBALL
BOXING
FOOTBALL
GOLF
HOCKEY
TENNIS
To select a sport, use the UP
and DOWN buttons to move the
cursor to the left of the sport and
press
ON/ENTER. You'll then
see more (sub)categories.
Want to find who won the
French Open men's singles cham-
pionship in 1972 and who his
opponent in the final was? Select
and press
FACTS AND STATS.
Then select and press TENNIS .
Select and press “ FRENCH
OPEN CHAMPS .” Then press
“ MEN ” and scroll to 1972. The
winner is listed first, and his
If no button is pushed for five minutes, your
Sports Master will switch off to save its batteries.
Just push ON / ENTER to continue where you left off.
E
ACH MENU
(
LIST OF CATEGORIES
)
APPEARS
ALPHABETICALLY ON THE SCREEN
.