User’s Manual

Fox Sports

Sports Master

Model No.: FX200

C

ongratulations on your purchase of the Fox Sports’ and

Excalibur Electronics’ Fox Sports Sports Master!

Whether you want to know which tennis pro won the

1972 French Open or who is the all-time NFL leader in punt returns, your Fox Sports Sports Master will help you settle almost any debate.

The Fox Sports Sports Master is easy to use, but be sure to use it safely. Before starting, please read this manual thoroughly, especially noting safety, care and battery information. Keep this manual for reference.

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T h e l e g e n d a r y K i n g A r t h u r b r a n d i s h e d a m a g i c s w o r d , E x c a l i b u r, f r o m w h i c h w e t a k e o u r c o m p a n y n a m e . With this unique weapon in his hands, he could not be vanquished.

A l t h o u g h E x c a l i b u r E l e c t r o n i c s , I n c .

c a n ’ t c l a i m t h e m a g i c a l s e c r e t s o f

M e r l i n , K i n g A r t h u r ’s c o u r t w i z a r d , s o m e t i m e s o u r p a t e n t e d t e c h n o l o g y m a y m a k e i t s e e m a s i f w e c o u l d . The

Fox Sports Sports Master i s a n o t h e r u n m a t c h e d i n n o v a t i o n o f E x c a l i b u r

E l e c t r o n i c s .

We m a k e y o u t h i n k .

Fox Sports TM & © 2006 Twentieth

Century Fox Film Corporation.

All rights reserved.

Fox Sports

Sports Master Table of Contents

Layout of Fox Sports Sports Master

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Functions of Buttons

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Installing Batteries

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Getting Started with Fox Sports Sports Master

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Set Up.

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page 12

Auto Power Off .

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Special Care & Handling

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Battery Information.

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page 14

90-Day Limited Warranty

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Layout of Sports Master

RESET

(

ON BACK

)

LCD

DISPLAY

PREV

ON

/

ENTER

NEXT

ABC

UP

BACK

DOWN

Functions of Buttons

P

REV

: Press this key to return to the previous item or the previous listing. Also press to jump to the first item on a menu.

O N /E NTER : Press this key to turn on Sports Master or to confirm a selection after you have scrolled to it. Press and hold for two seconds to set speed for autopage down

D

OWN

: Press this key to scroll down. Press and hold this key to scroll down quickly.

N EXT : Press this key to display the next listing. Press this key also to jump to the last menu item.

When viewing detailed information, press this key to go to the next item on the previous menu.

For Trivia Game, press this key to display the “

PASS,” “HINT,” and

“

SCORE” menu.

ABC: Press this key when in an alphabetical index to allow you to scroll directly to Z from A.

(“ABC

MODE ON

” will display on the screen for one second.)

Continue pressing

UP to scroll backwards through the alphabet from Z to A. Press

DOWN to

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scroll quickly through an alphabetical list, jumping from one alphabetical first letter to the next.

Press ABC a second time to turn this feature off. (“ABC

MODE

OFF

” will display on the screen for one second.)

B ACK : Press

BACK to return to the former level. Also press to go back to a question and its answers in TRIVIA when the “

PASS,”

“

HINT,” “SCORE” menu is on.

(Press BACK a second time to be asked if you’d like to quit the game you’re playing.) At any time, press and hold this key for two seconds to return to the main menu.

U P : Press this key to scroll up.

R

ESET

: If Sports Master locks up or malfunctions, use a ballpoint pen to press RESET . Also press RESET

, on the back of the unit, after inserting new batteries.

Installing Batteries

Your Sports Master requires two

AAA batteries, not included. To install the batteries, carefully turn

Sports Master over so that the unit is face-down on a soft surface.

Find the battery compartment on the back of the unit. match polarity (+ and -) with the diagram inside the battery compartment (see diagram below.)

Place the tab of the battery compartment lid in its slot and close the compartment door. Replace the screw and tighten it carefully.

Use a small Phillips screwdriver to remove the screw. Lift off the battery compartment lid. Install the batteries, making sure to

Sports Master may lock up due to static discharge or other electrical disturbances.

If this should happen, use a slim, pointed object to press the button marked “

RESET

” on the back of the unit.

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Getting Started with Sports Master

Your Fox Sports Sports Mas-ter can settle your sports arguments and answer your sports questions.

It contains thousands of files of information, but it's easy to navigate. After inserting new batteries, press RESET to turn the unit on. Your LCD will display the following message in three successive screens:

BIOS

FACTS & STATS

HIGHLIGHTS

RULES

STADIUM FINDER

TRIVIA

SET UP

WELCOME TO

EXCALIBUR

ELECTRONICS’

FOX SPORTS

SPORTS

MASTER

SOME INFO © 2006

WORLD ALMANAC EDU

GROUP, INC. ALL

RIGHTS RESERVED

Then your screen will automatically display the main menu of

Sports Master:

Note: If the characters on the screen seem uncomfortably small, skip to “ SETUP ” to change the display to expanded text.

Your Fox Sports Sports Master holds thousands of sports facts!

The headings on the main menu are your keys to finding what you want fast. Press the UP or DOWN key to scroll through your choices. As you scroll, an arrow on the left marks your position in the list. After scrolling to the desired item, simply press

ON

/

ENTER to confirm your choice.

To give you an overview of the possibilities, let’s take a quick

Quick Tip:

Holding down the UP or DOWN key will advance you quickly through a data file.

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Quick Tip:

Pressing the

BACK

button at any time takes you to the former level. Holding down the

BACK

button will take you back to the main menu.

look at each of the categories on the main (or home) menu.

Bios

BIOS are a source of brief biographical sketches on famous sports personalities. All of the best and brightest from the wide world of sports are brought together here, in one easy-to-use index, organized alphabetically.

From the Main Menu, select

BIOS by pressing ON

/

ENTER . The files will be arranged by first letter of the athlete’s last name.

Scroll down through the list until you find the letter for the athlete that interests you. Press

ON

/

ENTER , and the greatest sports figures of all time will be at your fingertips. To find your athlete, press DOWN to scroll through the alphabetical listing of athletes.

Pressing the ABC key will

7 allow you to scroll up through the last letters of the alphabet. For example, if you’re looking for information on Honus Wagner, just press the ABC key to enable the ABC function, then just press

UP two times to access the ‘

W’s’ file. Press the ABC key a second time to turn this function off.

To return to the alphabetical index, simply press the BACK button. If you want to return to the main menu, press the BACK button a second time, or just press and hold BACK for two seconds.

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 championship 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 opponent in the finals is listed second.

Spend a few minutes exploringyou'll find that Sports Master's arrangement of categories is intuitive and logical. You'll quickly get used to following the clear trail to the information you want!

Don’t forget, you can use the

ABC key to scroll quickly through an alphabetical list, such as the College Bowl Listing under

FACTS AND STATS

.

Sometimes the information at the top of a screen will explain how the information is organized.

Highlights

This category on the main or home menu contains sports highlights for each year since 1998. It also contains a list of the most dramatic sports events of the 20th century!

Each menu (list of categories) appears alphabetically on the screen.

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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, basketball, 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 another category called “

OTHER

SPORTS DIRECTORY.” Se-lecting this last choice gives you contact information on many lesser known sports, like the U.S.

Trotting Organization and the

International Game Fish Organization.

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 seating capacity. Selecting “

FIND-

ER” gives you all the contact info for that sport and its stadiums by team—where to call or go online to buy tickets, for example, and the street address.

Trivia

Selecting

TRIVIA, the next-tolast item on the home menu, gives you access to a sports trivia game with more than 400 questions that you can play by yourself or with friends!

TRIVIA GAME SET UP

To play Sport Master’s Trivia

Game, begin by pressing the UP and DOWN keys to step through the main menu until the arrow points to TRIVIA . Then press

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.

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ON

/

ENTER . The screen will then display “

PLAYERS 1.” Use the

UP and DOWN keys to change the number of players if there are additional players. Then press

ON

/

ENTER to confirm the number of players.

Now the screen will display

“

NUMBER OF QUESTIONS: 10.”

Press the UP and DOWN keys to change the number of questions you’d like Sports Master to ask during the game. You can choose either 10 or 20. Press ON

/

ENTER to confirm the number of questions you’ve selected.

Next you’ll see that the screen displays “

PLAYER 1 HINT 10” or

“

PLAYER 1 HINT 20.” Press the

UP and DOWN keys to change the number of hints you’d like Sports

Master to give. (This is the total number of hints for the entire set of questions. Up to two hints can be displayed for each question until all of the hints have been used.) Using a hint eliminates one of the incorrect choices.

Press ON

/

ENTER to confirm the number of hints you’ve decided on. (Continue setting the number of hints for other players in the

10 same way. You may want to allow certain players fewer or more hints to make the game more competitive. Younger players and players less knowledgeable about sports may need to be given more hints, whereas a sports expert might not be allowed any hints at all.)

PLAYING THE

TRIVIA GAME

After you’ve entered the number of hints to be allowed for the last player and pressed ON

/

ENTER to confirm that number, your screen will display “

QUESTION 1

PLAYER 1.” Now hand your

Sports Master to Player 1. Player

1 presses the ON

/

ENTER key to display his first question.

To answer a question

After the first question is displayed, the player then presses the

DOWN key to view the entire question and its choice of answers.

(The UP key can be used to scroll up to review the question if necessary.) If the player thinks he knows the answer, he then presses

ON

/

ENTER . The options A

,

B

,

C

and D will next be displayed. The

UP and DOWN keys are used to step through these options until the desired letter-answer is reached. Pressing ON

/

ENTER confirms the choice of answer.

If the answer is correct, the screen first displays “

COR-RECT!” and then shows the player number and his score. If the answer is incorrect, the screen first displays

“

WRONG!” and then the remaining options. In that case, the player can press the BACK key to display the question and answers again, and then press ON / ENTER again to display the remaining options. The player uses the UP and DOWN keys to step through the options, stopping at the answer he thinks is correct and pressing ON

/

ENTER to confirm.

If the second attempt to answer a question is also incorrect, the screen will first display

“

WRONG!” followed by the remaining options. Press the

BACK key to display the question again if you need to see it, and then press ON / ENTER to display the remaining options. Use the UP and DOWN keys to step through

11 these answer choices. Then press

ON

/

ENTER to confirm your answer.

If the third attempt to answer a question is still incorrect, Sports

Master’s screen displays

“

WRONG!” followed by the correct answer.

To pass, get a hint or check your score

When a player doesn't know the answer to a question or is unsure, he can press the NEXT key and use the UP and DOWN keys to step through the menu items

“

PASS,” “HINT” and “SCORE.”

If the player selects “

PASS” and then presses ON

/

ENTER , the question will be skipped. The player may pass on one question if there are 10 total questions, or pass on two questions if there are

20 total questions.

If the player selects “

HINT” and presses ON / ENTER , one of the incorrect answers is removed.

(The HINT function can be used twice on each question to eliminate two of the four answer options.)

If the player selects “

SCORE,” his current score will be displayed.

End of Trivia Game

After the first player has completed his turn, the screen will display “

QUESTION 1, PLAYER 2.”

(If there is only one player, the screen will display “

QUESTION 2,

PLAYER 1”.) Players continue answering questions or passing until all players have completed their questions. After all players have completed their questions, the screen will display the score, and the number of correct answers for each player. This information will be displayed a second time so that all players may review their performance.

The screen will then display

“

PLAYER: 3 WINS” (if player 3 won, for example) to designate the winner. In case of a tie, the screen displays “

PLAYER: 2, 3

WIN!” if, for instance, players 2 and 3 tied.

Calculating the Score

Sports Master automatically calculates all the scores, using the following rules;

Right answer on first try with no hints – 10 points.

Right answer on second try with no hints – 5 points.

Right answer on third try with no hints – 2 points.

Right answer on first try with one hint – 5 points.

Right answer on first try with two hints – 2 points.

Right answer on second try with one hint – 2 points.

Right answer on second try with two hints – 0 points.

Three wrong answers – 0 points.

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Setup

Select SETUP from the home screen to make choices about how your Sports Master displays information. You can turn

COM-

PRESSED TEXT off so that your unit will display expanded, larger text, which may be easier for you to read. You can turn the SOUND on or off. You can even select

AUTO SCROLL DOWN to select the time (in seconds) that your unit will display a screen of information before automatically moving to the next screen. (You can always override this function by using your UP and DOWN keys.)

SCROLL SPEED allows you to adjust the speed of the right-toleft scrolling that takes place with long items on a menu. CONTRAST allows you to select the right contrast for reading in any light levels.

Auto Power Off

If no key is pressed for five minutes, the unit will automatically turn off to conserve battery life. Press ON

/

ENTER and Sports

Master will return to where it was before it shut off.

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Special Care & Handling

• Avoid rough handling such as bumping or dropping.

• Avoid moisture and extreme temperatures. For best results, use between the temperatures of 39ºF and 100ºF (4º C and 38º C).

• Clean using only a slightly damp cloth. Do not use cleaners with chemical agents.

Battery Information

• Batteries should be installed and replaced only by an adult.

• Your Fox Sports Sports Master uses 2 AAA batteries, not included.

• Do not mix alkaline, standard (carbon-zinc) or rechargeable (nickel-cadmium) batteries.

• Do not mix old and new batteries.

• Do not use rechargeable batteries.

• Remove exhausted batteries from the unit.

• Do not short circuit battery terminals.

• Remove batteries and store them in a cool, dry place when not in use.

• To avoid explosion or leakage, do not dispose of batteries in a fire or attempt to recharge alkaline or other non-rechargeable batteries.

This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to

Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. • Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

Due to continuing improvements, actual product may differ slightly from the product described herein.

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90-Day Limited Warranty

EXCALIBUR ELECTRONICS,

INC., warrants to the original consumer that its products are free from any electrical or mechanical defects for a period of 90 DAYS from the date of purchase. If any such defect is discovered within the warranty period, EXCALIBUR ELECTRONICS,

INC., will repair or replace the unit free of charge upon receipt of the unit, shipped postage prepaid and insured to the factory address shown at right.

The warranty covers normal consumer use and does not cover damage that occurs in shipment or failure that results from alterations, accident, misuse, abuse, neglect, wear and tear, inadequate maintenance, commercial use, or unreasonable use of the unit.

Removal of the top panel voids all warranties. This warranty does not cover cost of repairs made or attempted outside of the factory.

sequential damages, so the above limitations and exclusions in these instances may not apply.

The only authorized service center in the United States is:

Excalibur Electronics, Inc.

13755 SW 119th Ave

Miami, Florida 33186 U.S.A.

Phone: 305.477.8080

Fax: 305.477.9516

www.ExcaliburElectronics.com

Ship the unit carefully packed, preferably in the original carton, and send it prepaid, and adequately insured.

Include a letter, detailing the complaint and including your daytime telephone number, inside the shipping carton.

If your warranty has expired and you want an estimated fee for service, write to the above address, specifying the model and the problem.

Any applicable implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability and fitness, are hereby limited to

90 DAYS from the date of purchase.

Consequential or incidental damages resulting from a breach of any applicable express or implied warranties are hereby excluded. Some states do not allow limitations on the duration of implied warranties and do not allow exclusion of incidental or con-

PLEASE DO NOT SEND

YOUR UNIT WITHOUT

RECEIVING AN ESTIMATE FOR

SERVICING. WE CANNOT

STORE YOUR UNIT!

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Play games live at:

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