SportsLine Europe Announces Plans for Top Soccer Site /

Company Plans Comprehensive Coverage of the World's Most PopularSport Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (PROTEXT) - SportsLine Europe Limited, amajority-owned subsidiary of SportsLine USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLN),the leading global Internet sports company, today announced plansto create the world's most comprehensive soccer site, which willdebut this summer as part of its network of European sports websites. For the past two years, SportsLine has produced and programmedSoccernet, on behalf of Associated New Media and London's DailyMail. SportsLine brought a global audience to Soccernet, anddeveloped the unique applications that took the site fromobscurity to the best English Premier League site in the world. SportsLine was responsible for all of the exciting features ofthe Soccernet site as well as the vast majority of revenue forthe site. Over the past two years, SportsLine has created theInternet's largest soccer store, the most complete scoring andstatistical applications, online games, community and fantasyproducts and combined these compelling applications with certaineditorial provided by the Daily Mail. As a result of SportsLine'saggressive expansion into Europe, SportsLine has elected not torenew its affiliation with the Daily Mail when its agreementexpires later this summer. With complete ownership of its new site, and the acquisitionof Infosis Sport, SportsLine Europe will incorporate the best ofSoccernet, along with more comprehensive real-time scores,statistics, match reports and features, to create the deepest,most up-to-date coverage of the world's most popular sport.SportLine's new soccer site will launch in early August and focusbeyond the English Premier League, to include expanded soccercoverage throughout Europe, as sports fans across the continentlook ahead to next summer's major soccer event, Euro 2000. "Combining the real-time scoring of Infosis Sport, theeditorial content of SportsWeb and SportsLine's own uniquefeatures will enable us to create an unmatched site," said TomJessiman, managing director of SportsLine Europe Limited. "Withour learning experience from producing a top-notch soccer site,we have already generated the most soccer revenue of any Internetcompany through advertising, fantasy and e-commerce. SportsLineEurope's new fully-owned soccer site will be a fan favorite inEurope." About SportsLine USA, Inc. SportsLine USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLN) is at the leading edge ofmedia companies, providing Internet sports content, community ande-commerce on a global basis. SportsLine USA's content includesmore than 400,000 pages of multimedia sports information,entertainment and merchandise. SportsLine USA was founded in 1994and its flagship Internet sports service (http://www.sportsline.com ) was renamed CBS SportsLine in Marchof 1997 as part of an exclusive promotional and content agreementwith CBS Sports. SportsLine USA produces the official league Websites for Major League Baseball, the PGA TOUR and NFL EuropeLeague, and serves as the primary sports content provider forAmerica Online, Netscape and Excite. About SportsLine Europe Limited SportsLine Europe Limited was formed as a subsidiary in May1999, with Intel Corporation, MediaOne Ventures, a division ofMediaOne Group and Reuters holding minority interests in theventure. SportsLine Europe acquired SportsWeb,(www.sportsweb.com), one of Europe's leading sports Web sites,from Reuters in May, and more recently acquired Infosis Sport, apremier provider of real-time scores, statistics, match reportsand features. ots Original Text Service: SportsLine USA, Inc.Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Larry Wahl, ext.7225, or Kathy Bradley, ext. 7519, or Alex Reithmiller, ext.7535, all of SportsLine USA, 954-351-2120 Web site:http://www.sportsline.com

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