These are the terms of use that every member using interactive areas of this site agrees to adhere to. This would include chat rooms, message boards and other interactive areas such as multimedia and contests.

Communicating in a chat room or on message boards is different from face-to-face communication. Only the words are seen, not your facial expressions or tone of voice. Please pay careful attention to how you use your words.

Remember that the words you enter in a burst of passion or indignant anger will be there for you and everyone else to see, sometimes long after those intense feelings have passed. That's not meant to discourage spontaneity, but just a friendly reminder of the long-term existence and effects of what you post.

You may, from time to time, find yourself in disagreement with someone else's opinion. At times like these, please keep in mind it's safer and more polite to take issue with the comments rather than the person.

By using this MSG Network service, you agree that you will not post any of the following material in chat rooms, bulletin boards, or other forums:

• Any communication that is intended to harass, belittle, humiliate, threaten or cause embarrassment to a fellow member.
• Material that contains vulgar, obscene or indecent language or images. Attempting to bypass the filter by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols or any other method is not allowed.
• Any communication that contains advertising, promotions, junk mail, spam (multiple copies in one area or the same communication in multiple areas), chain letters, or any other form of solicitation.
• Material that defames, abuses or threatens others.
• Material that is intended to annoy, offend or disrupt by going against the clear nature of the board or topic. This includes but is not limited to, misleading topic titles, posting false information as fact, provoking other users, or making statements that do not generally pertain to the designated topic or theme of the forum.
• Statements that contain bigoted, abusive, racist or hateful language or expressions, epithets or slurs, text, photographs or illustrations in poor taste, inflammatory attacks of a personal, racial or religious nature.
• Material that advocates illegal activity or discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them.
• Unauthorized copyrighted material or subscription-based web articles, including links to any form of illegally copied copyrighted material.
• Post or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
• Material that impedes or otherwise prohibits communication; disrupts the discussion including, without limitation, using fan names in topical boards that are offensive to the topic, the team, the sport and/or its fans, and repeatedly posting off-topic messages in a topical message board.

Users or visitors shall remain solely responsible for the content of their messages in the Forums. We are not responsible for the content or opinions posted by users in any Forum. You take responsibility for postings under your username and use the information provided in the Forums at your own risk.

Statements or postings that violate the above terms will be deleted from postings upon discovery. While we may attempt to notify you if we move or delete a post, we are under no obligation to do so. Depending on the nature of the violation, MSG Network, at their sole discretion may terminate a customer's account.