CYBERSPORTS FOR UPDATE ON BCS, KEEP A BOOKMARK ON BOWLBAILOUT.COM.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth Just another sign that not all marketing budgets for dot-com companies stand firm: The title sponsor for the Jan. 1 Citrus Bowl This article is about the football stadium. For the bowl game of the same name (1983-2002), see Capital One Bowl. • • [ , OurHouse.com, has bailed out for financial reasons just a month before the game. The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. reports the Internet house-finding company would have meant about $2.5 million to the bowl, but Citrus organizing chief Chuck Rohe says it won't affect the $1.4 million payouts to Michigan and Auburn. Other dot-com companies that have title sponsorship deals with bowl games are Galleryfurniture.com in Houston, Micronpc.com in Miami, Insight.com in Tucson (all of which have chief naming rights Naming rights are the right to name a piece of property, either tangible property or an event, usually granted in exchange for financial considerations. Institutions like schools, places of worship and hospitals have a tradition of granting donors the right to name facilities in to the contests), plus HomePoint.com (title sponsor of the Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tenn.) and Palm wireless Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. (one of two main sponsors for the Silicon Valley Classic scheduled in San Jose). --The Internet's role with upcoming Olympic Games will be discussed through Tuesday during meetings at the IOC IOC abbr. International Olympic Committee IOC n abbr (= International Olympic Committee) → COI m IOC n abbr (= headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. Officials from NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , which has paid $3.5 billion in TV rights through 2008, will try to protect the network's investment in the live events and results against the wishes of other new-media companies that, among several hurdles put in front of them, can't even get media credentials to cover the Games. ``We believe that the approach they adopted for the Sydney Olympics - basically to bar the video coverage on the Internet unless it was controlled by NBC - was fatally flawed,'' Gavin Chittick, chief financial officer of the European Internet site Sports.com, told the Associated Press. --HockeyWeb.com, a subscription-based service that keeps track of youth hockey league, team and individual stats, will become free when it debuts on the new site of Athlete.com at the end of this month. Athlete.com, a youth-sports network based 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 targets kids 3-13 and their parents, is building similar applications for sports such as baseball, soccer and basketball with the HockeyWeb.com's software company, InterWorks, that should be available by spring 2001. |
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