Updating stats in a mysql database

[sws]

Does anybody know of an effectiveway to obtain sports player stats on a nightly basis other than paying 10's of thousands of dollars for a nightly xml feed from a stats service company or manually updating my table ?

Sites like espn and such have player stats on their site. Is there an effective way of taking that info and plugging it into my database ?  I'm thinking xml or something.  And the other thing. I'm assuming I'd need permission from them ?

Any input would be great because manually updating 1000 + players each night is a royal pain in me butt hehe.

[Ninjakreborn]

Data harvesting off of a site, or look around for live xml feed's, or something similar.  OR sql dumps, and then you can get those regular and have you program chop it up and database it, there are lot's of alternatives, you can find a site, I Don't believe in data harvesting on private information, but I feel there is nothing wrong with it on public information, and you can easily find that in public information, even if it is from multiple sources, espn, or something similar might be a good choice.

But also (personal preference), I don't like any sports but video game wrestling, so that's about all the help I can offer.

[sws]

OK businessman.  That sounds like something I would like to do. Somehow go through the data on ESPN, capture it and put it into my database each night.

Problem is, I have no idea how to do it.

Can anybody point me in the right direction ? Tutorials, anything ??