Disney and online sports

News from Feb 1997:

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Internet Site Founders Give Back to Their University

* Yahoo! internet service founders, David Filo and Jerry Yang, have funded a new chair at Stanford University and are the youngest persons ever to have done so.

• they quit their PhD studies at Stanford to turn their Yahoo! Internet search site into one of the Web's most successful companies.
• donated $2 million to Stanford.

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Sports Sites Go for Big Bucks

* Walt Disney Co. is reportedly in talks to buy a major stake in Starwave, the Web site company owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

• Starwave operates sports and entertainment websites and operates, with Disney, the ESPNet-SportsZone site.