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Ultimate Sports Entertainment, Inc. Announces Extension of Agreement With MLB Players Association Through 2002.


Business Editors/Sports & Entertainment Writers

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2001

Ultimate Sports Entertainment, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB

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:ULSP ULSP Ultimate Logging System Professional (Xanga) ) (www.ultimatesportsforce.com ) announced that it has had its licensing agreement with the Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation).
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 Player's Association extended. The agreement sustains the company's rights to create animated comic book Superheroes featuring the images and likenesses of Major League baseball players This list consists of Major League Baseball players, both past and current, who have a biographic article (members of the Baseball Hall of Fame are noted with a β). For a list of other players for whom an article does not yet exist, see: Wikipedia:Requested articles/sports. , including their names, nicknames, facsimile signatures and statistics.

The agreement also includes language that will allow the company to customize content for use in individual team and stadium promotional events. These customized publications are similar to the comic books featuring members of the Anaheim Angels that were distributed to fans at the May 4, 2001 "Comic Book Night" at Edison International Field of Anaheim (see link http://www.ultimatesportsforce.com/press_frame.html) and the comic book featuring members of the New York Mets
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 that was distributed at Shea Stadium in 2000. These events have become a significant aspect to the overall marketing and revenue plan for Ultimate Sports. The company currently has contracts for eight separate promotional events with four individual Major League Baseball teams for the 2001 season and already has secured contracts for three "promo events" for the 2002 season.

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 players and the MLB Players Association has been one of the cornerstones to our success," said Rick Licht Licht (Light), subtitled "The Seven Days of the Week," is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen which, in total, lasts over 29 hours. Origin
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, President of ULSP. "We are looking forward to many years of heroic adventures with the baseball players and the MLB Players Association."

"The MLBPA MLBPA Major League Baseball Player's Association  is pleased to extend its licensing relationship with Ultimate Sports," said Evan Kaplan, category manager for the MLBPA. "Ultimate Sports has used the art of animation to create fun and charismatic off-field personas for Major League baseball players, personas that fully complement their outstanding on-field performances and role-model status. Ultimate Sports is a great example of how a licensee can use the power of the players to create unique merchandising and sponsorship opportunities."

Ultimate Sports Entertainment, Inc. is a Los Angeles based entertainment company that creates, develops and publishes superhero based action/adventure/fantasy stories in collectible comic book form by using world-famous artists and writers. "Ultimate Sports has taken a marketable commodity, the superstar athlete, and created a brand-new licensing, merchandising and premium sponsorship entity," added Licht.

Major League players featured in current titles include Mark McGwire; Sammy Sosa; Cal Ripken, Jr.; Derek Jeter; Alex Rodriguez; Roger Clemens; Mike Piazza; Ken Griffey, Jr. and Barry Bonds. Other titles include football players Troy Aikman; Dan Marino; Brett Favre; Peyton Manning; John Elway; Terrell Davis and many others.

In addition to its license with the MLBPA, Ultimate Sports currently has licensing agreements with: Major League Baseball Properties; NFL NFL
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 Properties; NFL Quarterback Club NFL Quarterback Club is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System game to feature quarterbacks from the NFL. Troy Aikman and Warren Moon are two examples of what players can use during the game. ; and the NHL Players Association The National Hockey League Players Association or NHLPA is a labour union that represents the interests of the hockey players in the National Hockey League of North America. .

This press release contains forward-looking statements. The words "estimate," "possible" and "seeking" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, which speak only as to the date the statement was made. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events, or otherwise. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some which cannot be predicted or quantified. Future events and actual results could differ materially from those set forth in, contemplated by, or underlying the forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties to which forward-looking statements are subject include, but are not limited to, the effect of government regulation, competition and other material risks.
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