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To: SAMOA1 who wrote (21850)	12/3/1998 8:08:00 PM
From: brent gephart	Respond to of 119973

Egghead.com Million Dollar Bowl Challenge Gives College Football Fans a Chance to Win $1 Million Thursday December 3, 6:09 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BW SportsWire)--Dec. 3, 1998--The FANSonly Network, the largest collegiate sports site on the Internet, is offering a $1 million grand prize to the winner of the Egghead.com Million Dollar Bowl. The $1 million prize will be awarded to the contestant who correctly predicts the winners of all 22 college football bowl games and the exact score of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. The contest is sponsored by Egghead.com (Nasdaq:EGGS - news), a leading Internet retailer. Fans can register for the contest immediately at www.fansonly.com/challenge. After the Bowl matchups are announced on December 6, fans can begin to enter their predictions on the site. Fans will be asked to predict a winner for each bowl game as well as the exact score of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, which is the championship game in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). If a fan predicts all the winners and the exact score correctly, he or she will win $1 million. Winners will be announced on Jan. 7, 1999. ''Our network users are the most knowledgeable college football fans in the country,'' said Jeff Cravens, vice-president for Product Development for the FANSonly Network. ''We would like nothing better than to reward that knowledge by giving away $1 million. What a great way for a fan to celebrate the holiday season!'' If no one claims the $1 million grand prize, the most successful prognosticators will win thousands of dollars in gift certificates from Egghead.com. Located on the Web at www.egghead.com, Egghead currently offers four separate buying venues including virtual superstores and auctions: Egghead Computer; Egghead Software; Egghead SurplusDirect and Egghead Auctions. Egghead.com is the only national brick and mortar retailer to move its entire business to the Internet. The college football bowl season kicks off Saturday, December 19 with the Las Vegas Bowl, which features FANSonly Network schools San Diego State (www.goaztecs.com) and North Carolina (www.tarheelblue.com). The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl is scheduled for Monday, January 4, in Tucson, Ariz. and will pit the top two teams in the Bowl Championship Series rankings. This is the first year that the BCS formula will be used in crowning a national champion. The top three teams in the current BCS standings are Tennessee, UCLA and Kansas State. All three are in action this Saturday. The final pairings will be announced on Sunday, December 6. The FANSonly Network is comprised of nearly 50 official athletic sites, including college football powers UCLA (www.uclabruins.com), Florida State (www.seminoles.com), Ohio State (www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com), Arizona (www.arizcats.com) and Tulane (www.tulanegreenwave.com.). In October, more than 1 million unique users visited the FANSonly Network. ''We have seen our user base continue dramatically grow,'' Cravens said. ''We find fans are turned off by the lock-outs, escalating salaries and lack of continuity in professional sports and find the exciting, emotional and unpredictable world of college sports much more appealing. Our tremendous growth is a reflection of the growing fan interest as well as the growth of the Internet.'' The Egghead.com Million Dollar Challenge is one of many interactive features within the FANSonly Network. In addition to breaking news and complete sports coverage, FANSonly provides its users with interactive games and contests which capitalize on the strong affinity of the college sports fan.