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iTurf Adds Sports Coverage To gURL Community Launches with Women's World Cup Soccer Tournament NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1999-- gURL.com and TSISoccer.com Offer Official World Cup 1999 Merchandise iTurf Inc. (Nasdaq:TURF - news), a leading provider of Internet community, content and commerce services for Generation Y, today announced that the Company's gURL.com Web site initiated its sports coverage in conjunction with the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup soccer tournament, to be played June 19 through July 10. The coverage provided by gURL.com includes full coverage of the games as well as features on international players and the game of soccer. In addition, gURL.com and iTurf's TSISoccer.com e-commerce site are teaming up to give away tickets to every match in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. iTurf also announced that soccer fans and gURL.com members in the U.S. and around the world will be able to purchase official 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup merchandise from iTurf's gURL-TSI Soccer boutique store, located at gURL.com and TSISoccer.com. Esther Drill, Executive Editor of gURL stated, ''The addition of sports coverage to our gURL community is something we're very excited about. gURL.com readers love sports and they love soccer. The Women's World Cup is a watershed event in sports history and a great way to launch our women's sports coverage.'' iTurf Inc., a subsidiary of dELiA*s Inc. (Nasdaq: DLIA - news), is a leading provider of Internet community, content and commerce services focused primarily on Generation Y. iTurf is an online destination, or network of Web sites, offering interactive magazines, proprietary content, chat rooms, posting boards, personal homepages, e-mail, and online shopping consisting of a wide range of apparel, footwear, athletic gear and home furnishings. TSI Soccer Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of iTurf's parent dELiA*s, is a Product Supplier to the third world championship of women's soccer. TSI Soccer joins Official Sponsors adidas, Bud Light, Coca-Cola and MasterCard; Marketing Partners Allstate and Time Inc, and Equipment Supplier Kwik Goal in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup commercial affiliate family. Tickets for the Women's World Cup, which will be played June 19-July 10, 1999, can be purchased by calling (800) WWC-TIKS (800- 992-8457). Venues for the tournament are: Boston (Foxboro Stadium), Chicago (Soldier Field), Los Angeles (Rose Bowl), New York/New Jersey (Giants Stadium), Portland, Ore., (Civic Stadium), San Francisco Bay/San Jose (Stanford Stadium and Spartan Stadium) and Washington, D.C. (Jack Kent Cooke Stadium).