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Kesmai, CBS SportsLine and America Online Swing Into Action
With the 'Jack Nicklaus Spring Golf Tour' Contest
Cybergolfers Invited to Compete for Fame and Prizes In
Jack Nicklaus Online Golf Tour Competition
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- This weekend, you can be a golf champion! Kesmai, a leading publisher and developer of multiplayer online games, today announced that it is collaborating with America Online, the world's leading interactive service, and CBS SportsLine to present the "Jack Nicklaus Spring Golf Tour" tournament on AOL's Games Channel. Between April 9th and 11th, thousands of players will compete in four rounds of Jack Nicklaus Online Golf Tour, one of the most popular games on AOL.
"We're excited to join with CBS SportsLine and America Online to give golf fans the unique chance to compete in a large-scale online competition against thousands of other players," said Chris Holden, CEO of Kesmai Corporation.
Interested golfers can register now on AOL for the contest at keyword: Jack Nick. The competition will take place over four qualifying rounds throughout the weekend. The first round will begin at 9 PM EST on Friday, April 9th. The top 128 scorers will advance to round two, and the remaining rounds will determine the top 64 players, who will compete in the final round on April 11th. The player that finishes the final round with the lowest combined score will receive a set of irons valued at $600, or a $600 credit from the GolfWeb ProShop in The Sports Store, CBS SportsLine's e-commerce area.
"In addition to the best professional golf action on television this weekend, there will be real golf excitement on America Online, as CBS SportsLine joins with America Online to host thousands of computer golfers battling for the online championship," said Larry Kruguer, vice president of marketing for SportsLine USA, Inc., publisher of CBS SportsLine.
"The AOL community has responded very positively to the Jack Nicklaus game, and we're expecting a huge turnout for our first major competition," said Lawrence Schick, executive director of interactive entertainment at America Online.
Featuring more than 100 beautiful and realistic downloadable courses, unlimited camera angles, definable weather, true physics and real opponents competing in real time, Jack Nicklaus Online Golf Tour allows players to simultaneously compete in foursomes in gross score or handicap tournaments. A player database stores scoring history for all of the online tournaments and provides an official game handicap.
ABOUT AOL
Founded in 1985, America Online (NYSE: AOL), based in Dulles, Virginia, is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 16 million members, and CompuServe, with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands including ICQ and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM portals; and the Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers. Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the Company develops and offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies operating in the Net Economy.
About SportsLine USA, Inc.
SportsLine USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLN) is a leading Internet-based sports media company that provides branded, interactive information and programming as well as merchandise to sports enthusiasts worldwide. The publisher of CBS SportsLine (http://cbs.sportsline.com), SportsLine USA's content includes more than 400,000 pages of multimedia sports information, entertainment and merchandise, covering all major professional, collegiate and international sports with exclusive content from sports teams, organizations and superstars such as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Shaquille O'Neal. The Sports Store (www.TheSportsStore.com) is SportsLine USA's electronic commerce arena offering a unique collection of sports-related merchandise, memorabilia and licensed products. In 1998, the Company acquired two golf-related properties, GolfWeb (www.golfweb.com) the Internet's premier golf site, and International Golf Outlet (www.igogolf.com), a leading Internet retailer of fine golf products and equipment. SportsLine USA was founded in 1994, and its flagship Internet sports service was renamed CBS SportsLine in March of 1997 as part of an exclusive five-year promotional and content agreement with CBS Sports which has been extended through 2006.
ABOUT KESMAI
Kesmai, a News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) company headquartered in Charlottesville, VA, is known for developing and publishing a variety of immersive, large-scale, persistent-universe games such as Air Warrior, MultiPlayer BattleTech, Casino Poker, and Legends of Kesmai. Kesmai games can be found on AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, AT&T WorldNet, Concentric Network, EarthLink Network, Delphi Internet, LineOne (UK), Fujitsu (Japan) and numerous major Web sites such as GameStorm, Fox Broadcasting, Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Sports Online, 20th Century Fox Film, Toronto Star, Golf Web, Sci-Fi Channel, Net World Communications, and TV Guide Entertainment Network. SOURCE Kesmai Corporation
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/CONTACT: Mark Prindle, mprindle@tsipr.com, or Lori Mezoff, lmezoff@tsipr.com, both of TSI Communications, 212-696-2000, for Kesmai/
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