NEW YORK, May 20, 2003 - CSTV: College Sports Television, the first 24-hour college sports network, will offer its first broadband event Monday, May 26, when the Division I Menís Collegiate Rugby National Championships Semi-Final and Final matches are streamed free on www.CSTV.com as part of a special event presented by Michelob. The Army-Harvard semi-final stream will begin at 4 p.m. ET, followed at 6 p.m. by the California-Air Force semi-final and the national championship match at 8 p.m.

Joe Castellano calls the action from the Stanford campus in Palo Alto, Ca., with Becky Worley providing color analysis. The May 26 special presentation can be accessed via www.CSTV.com, www.USARugby.org and www.Michelob.com.

United States President George W. Bush played rugby during his undergraduate years at Yale, and other notable former college rugby players include former Virginia governor George Allen Jr., former NFL Pro Bowl player Steve Tasker, actor and former UCLA quarterback Mark Harmon, and former Super Bowl champion and NFL broadcaster Randy Cross.

ìRugby boasts an extremely loyal and passionate fan base, with many of those fans being active or former players themselves, prototypical CSTV viewers,î said Brian Bedol, president and CEO, CSTV. ìThis is a unique opportunity for all fans with an Internet connection to experience the pinnacle of college rugby, and we appreciate Michelobís support in presenting this special event.î

The introduction of CSTV is exciting for both college sports and rugby fans, said Doug Arnot, CEO, USA RUGBY. ìThe free streaming of the men's Division I National Collegiate Championships on Memorial Day is a great way to complete the college rugby season.î

College Rugby Facts & Figures There are 440 menís and 319 womenís collegiate rugby clubs in the United States

Prior to this yearís championships, the California men had won 12 consecutive National Collegiate Championships and a total of 19 since 1980; the team had not lost a domestic match in six years

The Air Force menís club won two national titles in 1989 and 1990

Air Force won the 2002 womenís title, its third (the others being 1994 and 1991)

Of the other womenís semi-finalists, Penn State has won two National Collegiate Championships (2000 and 1997)

Among the returning First-Team All-Americans on the 2003 semi-final rosters: Mike MacDonald, Marc Tausend, Eric Anderson, Andy Armstrong, Matt Sherman and Alex Houser, all from California, as well as Josh Dean of Air Force

On May 5, 1874, Harvard University hosted Montrealís McGill University in the first recorded rugby game on American soil

College Sports Television has long-term programming and marketing agreements with 27 Division I athletic conferences, including the Atlantic 10, Big East, Big Sky, Big Ten, Big 12, Big West, Conference USA, Ivy League, Mountain West, Sun Belt, WAC and West Coast. 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. Dedicated to offering the widest variety of college athletics, College Sports Television will provide the most in-depth sports coverage of 1,200 universities and colleges involving 360,000 student-athletes across all of the major conferences at every level of college sports.

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 companyís successful foray into the college market. For more information on College Sports Television, log on to www.cstv.com.