World Cup Arena Activity Surpasses Peak Olympic Winter Games Traffic

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (June 17, 1998) -- Soccer fans worldwide have discovered a great new way to follow the World Cup. SportsLine USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLN), publisher of CBS SportsLine (cbs.sportsline.com), announced that during the first week of the much-anticipated World Cup, the Company's Web service generated approximately 45 million page views, of which approximately 17 million were registered in its World Cup soccer area.

The World Cup site, which offers content in six different languages, features player, coach, team, and country information for every squad, breaking news, exclusive stories and columns, live scoreboards of all games in progress, games and contests and results and stories of every qualifying match. In addition, also available at the click of a mouse are printable brackets, audio interviews, chats and polls, a special area for kids, complete World Cup history, and thousands of photographs. Soccer Live, which lets fans follow every key play in a multimedia graphical environment, and 3D Soccer World, a unique 3D online experience, are two innovative features of the site.

"This heavy traffic count confirms both to us and to our advertisers that soccer fans all over the world are hungry for instant, in-depth coverage of this international event," said Michael Levy, president and CEO of SportsLine USA, Inc. "We fully expected this worldwide recognition of our site's extensive coverage and its easy-to-use, entertaining format."

In anticipation of high traffic levels and widespread interest in the World Cup, SportsLine USA signed ten major World Cup advertisers, with sponsorships totaling more than one million dollars. As previously announced, these sponsors include Hewlett-Packard, EA SPORTS, EDS, Expedia, Palm Top and Sprint. Reebok International, Ltd., Sybase, France Telecom and Anheuser-Busch have recently signed on as major sponsors of CBS SportsLine's World Cup coverage.

CBS SportsLine's innovative Soccer Live feature depicts World Cup action with Shockwave (TM)-based animation. Every key play, including goals, shots, shots on target, fouls, corner kicks, free kicks, penalty kicks, offsides, cautions, ejections, and substitutions, is shown graphically as well as described in a text line.

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. SportsLine USA publishes CBS SportsLine, which features more than 300,000 pages of multimedia sports information, entertainment and merchandise covering all major professional, collegiate and international sports and includes exclusive content from sports teams, organizations and superstars such as Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Shaquille O'Neal. SportsLine USA was founded in 1994, and its 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.

# # # Note: This press release contains forward-looking statements, which involve risks and uncertainties. SportsLine USA's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause or contribute to such differences include, among others, competitive pressures, the growth rate of the Internet, constantly changing technology and market acceptance of the company's products and services. Investors are also directed to consider the other risks and uncertainties discussed in SportsLine USA's Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including those discussed under the caption "Risk Factors That May Affect Future Results" in SportsLine USA's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1997. SportsLine USA undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements, which may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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Sara L. Wilkins
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saraw@sportsline.com

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