FOXSports.com Scores With Sleek Redesign of Football Section for the '99 NFL On Fox Football Season

Business Wire, Sept 15, 1999

NEW YORK--(BW SportsWire)--Sept. 15, 1999--

In-depth NFL Coverage Includes FOX Personalities, College Football,

Fantasy Football, AllMadden.com and Football GameTracker

FOX Sports Online (foxsports.com), the fastest growing sports site on the Internet, is kicking off the biggest NFL on FOX season with several redesigned football sections, beginning with the NFL section, complete with all new features and functionality. The redesigned football section brings the look and feel of the NFL on FOX onto the Internet. Other new highlights of the FOXSports.com site include a completely redesigned college football section, six new fantasy football games, a redesigned AllMadden.com site and an innovative football GameTracker.

FOXSports.com's redesigned NFL football section provides fans with the most comprehensive information, including:

Team and Player Pages

Providing users with all the latest news, features, stories and stats, the team pages include rosters, schedules, division standings, team notebooks and links to the most extensive sports video library on the Web. Player pages include extensive stats and biographical information for every player in the NFL.

FOX Personalities

All season long, FOXSports.com offers expert commentary and analysis from the biggest names in football including FOX Sports personalities Howie Long, Cris Collinsworth, James Brown, John Madden, Matt Millen, Tim Green and more. Contributions are also made by FOX Sports Net's NFL This Morning team Chris Myers, Jackie Slater and Marv Levy. In addition, FOXSports.com has exclusive contributions from Don Shula, the winningest coach in the NFL.

FOX Football GameTracker

GameTracker gives users the ability to watch up to four football games at one time and provides a bevy of situational statistics, player alerts and weather reports from the stadium, not to mention a real-time, league-wide scoreboard. PlayerTracker, a part of GameTracker, allows users to customize and monitor in real-time the statistics of up to 30 players of their choice at one time. GameTracker and PlayerTracker are offered free to users on the site.

FOX Fantasy Football

FOX fantasy football games are designed for true armchair quarterbacks. FOX offers fans six exciting fantasy football games to choose from, with the chance to win fabulous FOX prizes. FOXSports.com offers four free fantasy games, as well as two pay-for-play games. Players have the opportunity to win prizes ranging from a trip to a NFL on FOX game to a home theater audio system.

FOX's College Football

FOX goes beyond the limits of professional coverage with in-depth college football coverage of college teams and players. FOX College Football '99 has more than 120 team pages including every team in Division I-A, as well as all the colleges from the Ivy League conference. The college football pages are filled with team notebooks by College Sports Xchange exclusively for FOX with insider's notes, quotes and anecdotes. Additionally the section boasts game previews, recaps and top performers of the week.

AllMadden.com

FOXSports.com teamed up with football legend, John Madden to offer fans AllMadden.com, where football fanatics can get the most cutting-edge coverage and expert commentary in the game.

About FOX Sports Online

FOX Sports Online, a division of News Corporation's (NYSE: NWS) News America Digital Publishing, is the fastest growing sports site and the premier destination on the Internet for up-to-the minute stats, news and scores for local and regional activity in the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, soccer, auto racing, college football, basketball, and baseball, as well as golf, tennis, horse racing, biking and world sports. In addition, the site boasts one the Web's most active fantasy sports leagues.