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March Madness in Yahoo! Messenger

March 18, 2008 on 10:15 am | In Avatars, Features, Fun Stuff | 5 Comments

It’s that time of year again when students, alumni and fans around the country put on their favorite college colors to cheer on their team in the NCAA College Basketball tournament.

Grown men will cry, women who don’t normally follow sports will become rabid with NCAA fever, and productivity in offices will take a hit as workers follow the games from their cubicles. Of course Yahoo! Messenger has a few items to further fuel your basketball obsession…

When it comes time to taunt your friends about their team losing or making a bad play, check out the NCAA audibles. There’s a referee ready to charge your friend with an offensive foul, a baseball cap-wearing superfan (complete with horn), and a laid back player who illustrates what it means when the defense is “taking a vacation”. To access the NCAA audibles, click the Audible icon in your IM window, click “More Audibles”, then “See All Audibles” and select NCAA Basketball (Yahoo! Messenger 8.1 or 9.0 Beta only).

You can also show your team pride by dressing the part. Head over to the NCAA section on Yahoo! Avatars to find jerseys from over 25 schools including Duke, University of North Carolina, UCLA, Kentucky and more.

To find out more about the tournament and follow all the action, check out NCAA Basketball on Yahoo! Sports. You still have time to pick your teams before the first game – download the tournament brackets: Men’s | Women’s

And if you’re on the go and want to follow what’s happening, go to http://m.yahoo.com/ncaa from your mobile phone for the latest scores and highlights.

Go team!

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

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  1. This is awsomeness

    Comment by Alyissa — March 29, 2008 #

  2. And I thought you were going to tell us about a plugin that was feeding live scores. That, that!, would have been news.

    Comment by Joe Beaulaurier — March 31, 2008 #

  3. Hey I would have to aggree with Alyissa there should really consider posting live scores and not just for basketball all sports, I mean you have the yahoo sports site why not narrow it down to scoreboard on the chat

    Comment by Justin — March 31, 2008 #

  4. need to up-date audibles……

    Comment by ak — April 19, 2008 #

  5. ilove yahoo

    Comment by adham — September 6, 2008 #

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