SportsTicker announces agreement with The Upper Deck Company

Jersey City, NJ, May 5, 2003 โ € "SportsTicker (R), the leading provider of real-time sports news and information, announced today it will offer sports news and information on Upper Deck Company, LLC for use with its release of the first collectors of the sports card industry's online fantasy baseball game, Sportsnut. SportsTicker will provide updates in real-time scores, schedules and other information online for the Upper Deck sports fantasy baseball game Sportsnut (www.sportsnut . com). Upper Deck Company, known for its cutting edge technology and innovative design of products, has just recorded another first for the paper industry, commerce, online fantasy game sports. The leader in sports company mania cards debuted last month Sportsnut โ € "a simple online fantasy game โ €" as a subset of its launch in MVP Baseball 2003. This agreement allows you to combine sport with enthusiasm card collecting and fantasy sports technology ". The Upper Deck Company is a welcome addition to our list of customers, "said Vin Bagnaturo, Sales Manager, SportsTicker." SportsTicker We are delighted to bring real time information to the fantasy of Upper Deck Sports component, giving the user a view to "frontline" in their online gaming experience. โ € SportsTicker delivers instant results, the latest sports news, statistics, progress, summary and features, gathered by more than 850 events site for journalists. SportsTicker serves hundreds of radio and television stations, broadcast and cable networks, newspapers, wire services, interactive media, online services, search services, multimedia and other electronic publishing applications in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America and Japan. "The goal of our company was done twice, โ € said Tim Muret, Upper Deck's senior director of Product Development." First, we decided to create exclusive content for our collectors who love fantasy sports there. Secondly, we have seen as a way to attract potential new collectors to the hobby. โ € Sportsnut is quite easy to play, whenever you have a computer with Internet access. "Sportsnut" packs of cards at a rate of one every three packages (1:3) of MVP Baseball 2003 ($ 1.99 per pack and eight cards per box). A total of 90 cards of different players to pick with the activation of the electronic card, including 60 batters and 30 pitchers. Therefore, the card game is more of a collector, options, more players should do their weekly training to start. Initially, participants will have only two batters and a pitcher to field a team. Just to play each week, contestants will receive 100 "bounty" points. To win the contest week, the player receives 10,000 points, finishing 10 seconds, 5,000 points, 11 to 25, 2,500 points and 1,000 points wins 26 to 50. Points accumulate bonuses that players from week to week can be used to provide signed and autographed collectibles located in Upper Deck recently released "Rewards Program" auction site: www.udrewards.com. Upper Deck Company, LLC is a premier sports / entertainment publishing house that offers a benchmark portfolio, innovative and multidimensional product experiences to collectors, sports enthusiasts and entertainment. Founded in 1988, the Upper Deck Company, LLC is headquartered in Carlsbad, California. SportsTicker, the primary source of instant sports news for ESPN.com, America Online, Yahoo, MSNBC, SI.com, USAToday.com, Fox Sports, Citysearch and Infospace, is also the official statistics for more than 40 professional leagues and associations, including all 16 U.S. alloys Minor League Baseball. SportsTicker is the instant availability of sports news and information service of ESPN, Inc.