Zuma Press, an independent press agency and wire service, won the contract for exclusive worldwide rights to syndicate the picture content of the weekly Sporting News, with in excess of 700,000 images dating back more than 118 years. The Sporting News archive has been incorporated into Zuma's web site, zumapress.com, and made available for immediate syndication by clients around the world.

Highlights include portraits of baseball's early stars by Charles M. Conlon, plus more than 300,000 historical, black-and-white images that document baseball throughout most of the 20th century. Nearly as many images cover football, basketball and hockey.