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CSTV's Crystal Bowl I: The Ultimate Championship, the First I-A Football Playoff, Will Decide Real College Football Champion; 16-Team Playoff Will Crown Definitive #1.


Sports Editors/Football Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2003

CSTV CSTV College Sports Television
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: College Sports Television (www.cstv.com), the fastest-growing cable network, has partnered with EA Sports to bring fans the first-ever Division I-A college football playoff, Crystal Bowl I: The Ultimate Championship. EA Sports NCAA NCAA
abbr.
National Collegiate Athletic Association
 Football 2004 will play each game in the 16-team championship tournament using up-to-date 2003 season statistics, appropriate weather conditions and other key intangibles, with previews, box scores, statistics and highlights for the games being featured weekly on CSTV.

The Crystal Bowl I national champion will be crowned on CSTV Primetime Sunday, January 4, at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT. CSTV Primetime is College Sports Television's live studio show originating from the CSTV Fieldhouse in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 that consists of sports news, scores, features and previews of the evening's college sports action.

CSTV, the first 24-hour college sports network, is available to approximately 15 million homes nationally on cable and satellite. The network is available on Adelphia and Insight cable systems, among others, and is also available on DirecTV (channel 610). For information on CSTV availability in particular markets, consumers can log on to www.cstv.com or call their cable or satellite operator.

The Crystal Bowl I field will consist of the top 15 teams in the latest Bowl Championship Series (BCS (1) (The British Computer Society, Swindon, Wiltshire, England, www.bcs.org) The chartered body for information technology professionals in the U.K., founded in 1957. ) rankings and one at-large team, Boise State, selected by the "Crystal Bowl Selection Committee" from among the remaining teams ranked in the BCS. A special edition of Crystal Bowl I on Friday, December 12, (7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT), will feature Sid Rosenberg Sidney Arthur Rosenberg (born c. 1967 in Brooklyn, New York) is a controversial American radio personality who currently works for WAXY "790 The Ticket" in Miami, where he hosts his own Mid-Morning show. He originally was paired with O.J. , Aaron Taylor, Kelley King, Scott Zolak and Jordan Burchette from CSTV's Crystal Ball weekly football show explaining the Crystal Bowl I format. They will also provide box scores, highlights and statistics from the eight first-round games.

Results of the quarterfinal games and previews of the semifinals will be featured during the December 19 CSTV Primetime (7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT), while the December 27 CSTV Primetime show (6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT) will recap the two semifinal games and set the stage for the national championship game. The Crystal Bowl I national championship will be crowned during the Sunday, January 4, CSTV Primetime at 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT.

CSTV Crystal Bowl I first-round games (full brackets and tournament information available at www.cstv.com)

#16 Boise State at #1 Oklahoma
#9 Miami (Fla.) at #8 Tennessee
#12 Georgia at #5 Ohio State
#13 Iowa at #4 Michigan
#14 Purdue at #3 USC
#11 Miami (Ohio) at #6 Texas
#10 Kansas State at #7 Florida State
#15 Florida at #2 LSU


CSTV: College Sports Television televises regular season and championship event coverage in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer and other sports from the ACC See adaptive cruise control. , Atlantic 10, Big East, Big Sky, Big Ten, Big 12, Big West and Conference USA, as well as the Ivy League, Missouri Valley, Mountain West, Pac-10, SEC, Sun Belt, WAC WAC (Women's Army Corps), U.S. army organization created (1942) during World War II to enlist women as auxiliaries for noncombatant duty in the U.S. army. Before 1943 it was known as the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC). Its first director was Oveta Culp Hobby.  and West Coast Conferences. CSTV also has programming agreements with the NCAA, U.S. Olympic Committee and NAIA NAIA
abbr.
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes
. The network presents NCAA postseason action in baseball, lacrosse lacrosse (ləkrôs`), ball and goal game usually played outdoors by two teams of 10 players each on a field 60 to 70 yd (54.86 to 64.01 m) wide by 110 yd (100.58 m) long. Two goals face each other 80 yd (73. , women's ice hockey, field hockey, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's water polo, gymnastics and track & field. For more information on CSTV, log on to www.cstv.com.

College Sports Television was co-founded by President/CEO Brian Bedol, Chairman Stephen Greenberg and Executive Vice President Chris Bevilacqua. Bedol and Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network, which they sold to ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network  and which is now ESPN Classic. Bevilacqua is a former senior executive with Nike Inc., where he headed the company's successful foray into the college market. For more information on College Sports Television, log on to www.cstv.com.
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