SportsLine.com Captures Horizon Award as Top Sports Web Site for 2001
Company Also Earns Honors for Top Sports League Web Site and Sports Business Impact Partnership of the Year
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL (January 28, 2002) - SportsLine.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLN), the leading global Internet sports media company and publisher of CBS SportsLine.com (http://cbs.sportsline.com), was honored at the annual Horizon Awards presentation Saturday night, as it was named the top Sports Web Site of the Year for 2001. The Company was also awarded for its part in the Sports Business Impact Partnership of the Year along with the NFL, CBS, AOL Time Warner. Additionally, NFL.COM, which is produced and hosted by SportsLine.com, was recognized with a Horizon Award as the top Sports League Web Site of the Year.
"We are extremely pleased that SportsLine.com is once again recognized by our peers for not only producing the best sports Web sites, but also for our ability to forge extremely valuable partnerships with other industry leaders," said Michael Levy, founder and CEO of SportsLine.com, who was recently selected as one of The Sporting News 100 most powerful people in sports for the third consecutive year.
The Horizon Awards are given annually by the Atlanta Sports Council to recognize the international leaders in the sports business in nine different categories, as selected by their peers. Leaders in the sports industry voted for the awards through www.sportsbusinessnews.com.
The Sports Web Site of the Year honors the "sports Web site that combined the most comprehensive sports content with the most innovative technology this year." The Sports Business Impact Partnership of the Year recognizes the "sports partnership that emerged this year which will have the greatest impact on the sports business industry." The Sports League Web Site of the Year recognizes the "sports league Web site that best integrated the leagues content and information with innovative and useful technologies this year."
Last year, SportsLine.com received the Horizon Award for Sports Business Web Site Marketing Campaign of the Year.
About SportsLine.com, Inc.
SportsLine.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLN) is at the leading edge of media companies providing Internet sports content, community and e-commerce on a global basis. As the publisher of CBS SportsLine.com and the official Web sites of the NFL and the PGA TOUR, the Company serves as one of the most comprehensive sports information sources available, containing an unmatched breadth and depth of multimedia sports news, information, entertainment and merchandise. SportsLine.com also has strategic relationships with Major League Baseball and the NBA, and serves as a primary sports content provider for America Online. In 1999, the Company commenced operations in Europe through Sports.com Limited, Europe's leading Internet and mobile data provider of sports content.
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