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College Fanz Sports Network Announces Successful Close of Series A Round Private Placement.


ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network  Founder making waves with his sports social network

WAYNE, Pa. -- The College Fanz Sports Network today announced that it has successfully completed its Series A Round Investment.

College Fanz utilizes Web 2.0 technology to provide social networking See social networking site.

social networking - social network
, video streaming See streaming video and video stream. , and online content to collegiate sports fanz.

The network has nearly 5,000 communities in place for student and alumni participation. Every NCAA NCAA
abbr.
National Collegiate Athletic Association
 Division I, II, and III and NAIA NAIA
abbr.
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes
 college or university is included in the network and ready for participation for every fan, every school, everywhere.

President Darren Pulito explained, "The timely fashion in which we were able to not only close the round in uncertain economic times, but to attract some of the area's more sophisticated investors, validates the vision of College Fanz Founder and ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen."

Pulito went on to explain, "We had a tremendous response to our offering. By having the financial and advisory support of the Musser Group and other elite investment titans, it positions College Fanz for remarkable growth going forward."

The College Fanz Sports Network is all about the fan right now and into the future. Plans call for significant fan participation in developing the direction and growth of the site utilizing the multiple enhancements under development and being launched in 2008.

The home page features the Amazing a·maze  
v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es

v.tr.
1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise.

2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex.

v.intr.
 Fan, Featured Colleges, Hot Stuff, Fanz Polls and the most recently posted videos and photos.

My Fanz Page is every fanz personal page. This is where it all begins. From this page, fanz blog inviting the world to engage, find other fanz, post private messages, add videos and photos, insert a personal snapshot, and edit personal stats as often as they like.

The heart of the network is the college page. Here each fan can start discussions, check scores, schedules and standings and add RSS feeds Summaries of Web site content that are published in the RSS format for download. See RSS. .

As the college year progresses, fanz will experience an ever growing list of NCAA sanctioned sports featuring seasonal sports and activities from countless campuses.

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