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ADVISORY/FOXSPORTS.com Unveils "Six Degrees of Andre Agassi".


Sports & Entertainment Editors/Tennis & Multimedia Writers

ADVISORY...for Wimbledon Tennis Tournament

LOS LOS Length of stay, see there  ANGELES--(BW SportsWire)--June 30, 2000

Innovative Game with Tennis Icon Featured in

FOXSPORTS.com's Comprehensive Wimbledon Coverage

FOXSPORTS.com, the fastest growing sports site on the Internet, is providing tennis fans with "Six Degrees of Andre Agassi Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from the United States who won eight Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic gold medal in singles. ," a unique game that challenges users to link celebrities, tennis players and others to tennis superstar Andre Agassi.

The exclusive feature is a part of FOXSPORTS.com's complete Wimbledon package of the prestigious grand slam grand slam
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 tournament taking place June 26-July 9.

Inspired by the original "6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon," where a direct connection to famous actor Kevin Bacon could be made with any movie star in six steps or less, FOXSPORTS.com has created their own tennis version utilizing one of the biggest names in tennis, Andre Agassi.

To play, FOXSPORTS.com provides users with a photo of an identity to start with and four missing links connecting to a photo of Andre Agassi. With specific celebrities, tennis players and others to chose from, users must select the proper connection to each missing link and eventually to Andre Agassi.

"Six Degrees of Andre Agassi" can be found on FOXSPORTS.com's Wimbledon coverage located at foxsports.com/tennis/wimbledon.

The Wimbledon section includes real-time updates, top Wimbledon stories and features on players, a complete tournament bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces.  and in-depth profiles on the top players with FOXSPORTS.com's prediction on how they'll fare at Wimbledon.

About FOXSPORTS.com

FOXSPORTS.com, a division of News Corporation's (NYSE NYSE

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) News Digital Media, is the premier sports destination on the Internet for up-to-the-minute stats, news and scores for all professional, college and high school sports. Unlike any other sports site, FOXSPORTS.com features: 18 regional sites covering local sports news and teams across the country, Maximumgolf.com, the innovative golf destination delivering unprecedented and progressive golf coverage, FOXSPORTSBiz.com, the definitive source for sports business news, and the FOX Sports Fantasy Network, one of the Web's most active fantasy sports A fantasy sport (also known as rotisserie, roto, or fairy-tale sport; or owner simulation) is a game where fantasy owners build a team that competes against other fantasy owners based on the statistics generated by individual players or teams of a professional sport.  leagues. Additionally, FOXSPORTS.com is the top provider of content to broadband broadband

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 and wireless platforms and owns STATS, Inc., the leading distributor of statistical information, delivering the most comprehensive player, team, game and situational information on the Web.
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