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Talk-show hosts may breathlessly share “inside information” with you, but you can find most of the same information on this terrific Web site.

Rich Johnson, a radio producer in New York, was talking to Yankee broadcaster Michael Kay one day last year. With newspapers across America storming onto the Web, Kay bemoaned the amount of time required to gather information by scanning the sites of the papers covering the Yankees and their American League opponents.

“Now I’ve got no life,” Kay told Johnson. “Instead of reading five New York papers every day, I’m reading 25 or 30.”

Johnson saved time for everyone by creating this Web site, which provides links to the sports pages of newspapers across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom--161 at last count--from the Los Angeles Times and New York Times to the Hammond (Ind.) Times and Toronto Sun.

If you picked Elvis Grbac for your fantasy football team and need to know whether Grbac or Rich Gannon will start for the Chiefs on Sunday, click on the Kansas City Star.

If you want to check out juicy tabloid headlines after the Yankees’ Chuck Knoblauch makes a bonehead play, click on the New York Post or Daily News.

If you fled New England but want to share in the civic angst over Mo Vaughn’s departure from the Red Sox, click on one of the Boston papers. If you want to read Peter Gammons’ Sunday baseball column before a talk-show host reads from it Monday, click on the Boston Globe.