NEW YORK, April 1, 2003 - Consistent with its mission of featuring the Ïbest of the bestÓ of college sports, CSTV: College Sports TelevisionÌs (www.cstv.com) spring programming highlights will include live baseball telecasts featuring #1-ranked Rice, Notre Dame and LSU, live menÌs lacrosse telecasts featuring #1-ranked Johns Hopkins, Syracuse and Maryland, and live softball featuring #1-ranked UCLA and #3-ranked Arizona. The network will also carry tournament action from the Big East, Big Ten, Big XII, Conference USA, Mountain West and Pac-10, introduce a full roster of original studio shows, and will provide live remote news coverage from national championship events such as the Frozen Four and College World Series.

The first television network devoted exclusively to college sports, College Sports Television will launch Monday, April 7, following the NCAA menÌs basketball championship game with its ÏCSTV 2003 College Hoops Honor Roll,Ó the first and most comprehensive 2003 college basketball review show. The program will include the presentation of CSTVÌs inaugural Player of the Year awards, reports from the menÌs and womenÌs Final Fours, and other segments highlighting this past college basketball season.

College Sports Television will be available nationally to DirecTVÌs more than 11 million customers on Channel 610. Dedicated to offering the widest variety of college athletics, CSTV will provide the most in-depth sports coverage of 1,200 universities and colleges across all of the major conferences at every level of college sports. For complete programming information, log onto www.cstv.com.

Through a multi-year, multi-sport programming and marketing agreement with Notre Dame, CSTV will become ÏThe Year-Round Home of Notre Dame Athletics.Ó The network will have access to a wealth of live and classic event Notre Dame programming, and Sunday evenings starting this fall will be dedicated to Notre Dame athletics.

Sport-by-Sport Highlights: MenÌs lacrosse: three appearances by top-ranked Johns Hopkins and two appearances by second-ranked Syracuse; factoring in Maryland, Princeton and Cornell, the network will feature schools that have captured 25 Division I NCAA championships since 1971.

Baseball: top rivalries such as Texas-Nebraska, Rice-Houston and UCLA-Stanford; tournament action from the Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA and Mountain West is also on tap; also featured is LSU-Tulane at the Louisiana Superdome, a game which drew 26,000 fans last year and for which 30,000 tickets have been sold for this yearÌs edition.

Monday Night Spring Football: defending national champion Ohio StateÌs spring football game, along with those of Big Ten rivals Penn State and Iowa, with special appearances by coaches Jim Tressel, Joe Paterno and Kirk Ferentz, respectively.

Softball: #1-ranked UCLA, along with Top 15 members Arizona, California and Nebraska, will make appearances during the regular season, followed by Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA and Mountain West tournament action.

MenÌs Volleyball: for the first time ever, the three premier conferencesÌ tournaments (EIVA), MIVA and MPSF) will receive live national television coverage (April 26, ÏChampionship SaturdayÓ), with the winner of each advancing to the NCAA MenÌs Volleyball Championships.

WomenÌs Lacrosse: telecasts will boast ranked teams Georgetown, Princeton, Cornell, Penn State, Yale and Ohio State, including a game pitting Georgetown against Princeton in a repeat of last yearÌs national championship game won by the Tigers.

CSTV will also be on the scene airing live news coverage from national championship events such as the menÌs and womenÌs Division I basketball Final Fours, Division I menÌs Frozen Four, Division I lacrosse Final Four, the College World Series and the WomenÌs College World Series (softball).

ÏWe are committed to bringing fans the highest level of competition across all college sports, and this programming certainly supports that premise,Ó said Brian Bedol, president and CEO, College Sports Television. ÏWe have the resources and scheduling flexibility to air the greatest variety of college sports, and we fully intend to cover more student-athletes, more games, more schools and more conferences than anyone else.Ó

Live event programming highlights:

MenÌs lacrosse: Johns Hopkins-Maryland (April 12), Syracuse-Hofstra (April 17), Navy-Johns Hopkins (April 19), (Army-Navy (April 27), Princeton-Loyola (May 2), Loyola-Johns Hopkins (May 3)

ÏChampionship SaturdayÓ menÌs volleyball conference championship tripleheader: Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA), Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) and Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) telecast live Saturday, April 26; all teams in the Top 15 are expected to compete, including Pepperdine, Hawaii, Brigham Young, Penn State, UCLA, Stanford, LoyolaÒChicago, Ball State, Ohio St.

Baseball: Rice-Houston (April 16), Texas-Nebraska (April 19), LSU-Tulane (April 29), Notre Dame-Rutgers (May 10), Baylor-Nebraska and UCLA-Stanford (May 17), Miami-Long Beach State (May 22-25)

Softball: California-Arizona (April 12), Notre Dame-Nebraska (April 15), Arizona-Stanford (May 4), UCLA-Arizona (May 9)

Additional event programming highlights:

Monday Night Spring Football: Iowa (April 28), Ohio State (May 5), Penn State (May 12), with special appearances by Kirk Ferentz, Jim Tressel and Joe Paterno

WomenÌs Lacrosse: Georgetown-Princeton (April 9), Cornell-Yale (May 1), Ohio State-Penn State (May 2)

WomenÌs Water Polo: Stanford-Cal (April 15), MPSF semi-finals and championships (May 11)

MenÌs and WomenÌs Division I-A Rugby Final Fours: (May 14-18) "The Big Splash" and "The Big Meet": time women's water polo and men's and women's track & field editions of the storied Cal-Stanford rivalry will be televised nationally for the first time, on College Sports Television.

College Sports Television original programming highlights:

CSTV PRIMETIME: A nightly block of programming highlighting the evening's most compelling college sports action.

CSTV LAX, CSTV Strike Zone, CSTV Fast Pitch, CSTV In The Cup, CSTV On-Track: Ïthe week that wasÓ in college lacrosse, baseball, softball, golf and track & field, respectively.

Conference Calls: weekly reviews of sports action from a wide variety of conferences.

In The House: one-on-one interview show with current and former college sports figures.

Road Trip: simulcast of the best college sports radio programming around the country dedicated to the hottest college sports

College Sports Television has long-term programming and marketing agreements with 27 Division I athletic conferences, including the Big East, Big Ten, Big XII, Ivy League, Sun Belt and Atlantic 10. The network will televise live regular season and championship events across a broad spectrum of men's and women's college sports, including football, basketball, baseball, soccer, ice hockey and lacrosse.

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 and which is now ESPN Classic. Bevilacqua is a former senior executive with Nike Inc., where he headed the companyÌs successful foray into the college market. For more information on College Sports Television, log on to www.cstv.com.