1. A method of automatically sorting sports related news stories by their temporal characteristics using a computing system comprising: a) identifying a first sporting event; wherein said first sporting event is assigned by the computing system to a plurality of different event status states each representing a different temporal period within a temporal sequence defined for such first sporting event; b) analyzing a first electronic document describing said first sporting event with the computing system to identify first content snippets determinative of a first status state of said sporting event relative to completion and/or resolution; c) analyzing a second electronic document with second content snippets describing a second status state for said first sporting event with the computing system; and d) determining which of said first and second electronic documents contains content describing a more current status of said sporting event by comparing said first status state to said second status state and generating an output with the computing system indicating which of said electronic documents describes the more current status; wherein changes in corresponding content snippets relating to completion and/or resolution of such first sporting event are tracked between documents and used by the computing system to derive a relative temporal relationship between said first electronic document and said second electronic document.
1. A method of automatically sorting sports related news stories by their temporal characteristics using a computing system comprising: a) identifying a first sporting event; wherein said first sporting event is assigned by the computing system to a plurality of different event status states each representing a different temporal period within a temporal sequence defined for such first sporting event; b) analyzing a first electronic document describing said first sporting event with the computing system to identify first content snippets determinative of a first status state of said sporting event relative to completion and/or resolution; c) analyzing a second electronic document with second content snippets describing a second status state for said first sporting event with the computing system; and d) determining which of said first and second electronic documents contains content describing a more current status of said sporting event by comparing said first status state to said second status state and generating an output with the computing system indicating which of said electronic documents describes the more current status; wherein changes in corresponding content snippets relating to completion and/or resolution of such first sporting event are tracked between documents and used by the computing system to derive a relative temporal relationship between said first electronic document and said second electronic document. 11. The method of claim 1 wherein subject/predicate pairs are tracked in said content snippets and weighted by the computing system in accordance with their temporal significance to determine said temporal related value.