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Dec 03, 2002
Hoops Home Double Header to Be Broadcast on Web Radio

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This doubleheader has been postponed until further notice due to weather. The next home game is Saturday, Dec. 7, at 4 p.m. when the Runnin' Colonials take on Southern Connecticut.

Sports Radio Network (WSRN) and the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC) have finalized an agreement to webcast men's and women's basketball for the upcoming 2002-2003 season.

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The agreement, which will make Sports Radio Network (http://www.sportsradionet.com) the exclusive internet broadcast partner of the NYCAC, calls for WSRN to webcast the regular season home, league opener for both the Southampton College men's and women's basketball teams against NYCAC foe St. Thomas Aquinas on Thursday, Dec. 5 at the Southampton College Gym. Start time for the women's game is at 4:45 p.m., with the men's game to follow.

The webcasts will be capped by Sports Radio Network's live and exclusive coverage of the NYCAC playoffs on March 6-7, 2003 in Brookville, N.Y., and can be accessed from Sports Radio Network's official website at http://www.sportsradionet.com. Archived games will also be available on demand following the completion of the regular season and playoff games.

"The NYCAC is pleased to have Sports Radio Network as a partner in the upcoming basketball season," Commissioner Carmine Calzonetti said. "We believe the added exposure for the member institutions and the student-athletes will be positive and will allow fans to follow the NYCAC from anywhere in the world."

Sports Radio Network unofficially began its association with the NYCAC Conference at the 2002 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship - Northeast Regional ? as the internet-based station presented live and exclusive audio game coverage of select games from The Clark Center on the campus of SUNY Old Westbury.

The Northeast Regional featured two of the conference's elite teams in regular season champion Adelphi and postseason survivor Queens. The sixth-seeded Queens Knights (19-11) fell to third-seeded Pace in the opening round 92-88, while the top-seeded Adelphi Panthers (28-3), who earned a bye in the opening round, defeated fourth-seeded Umass-Lowell 72-57, and second-seeded Assumption 77-56, before bowing out to Kentucky Wesleyan 71-42 at The NCAA Division II Elite Eight in Evansville, Indiana.

"The NYCAC features some of the best talent in this region and we feel that our partnership will be beneficial both for the players and the conference as well as Sports Radio Network." said play-by-play announcer and Sports Radio Network's CEO Rob Goldenberg.

Sports Radio Network, a full service broadcasting outlet for amateur and professional sports, has already gained recognition as a leader in web-based sports programming.

With Goldenberg handling play-by-play duties and Alon Avital providing color commentary, WSRN burst on to the scene with its live and exclusive coverage of the United States Basketball League's (USBL) Long Island Surf franchise in the spring of 2001. Following its presentation of 13 regular season games, the station carried the summer's USBL post-season tournament.

Once again in 2002, WSRN was the exclusive home to the USBL Post-Season Festival, with fans in more than 15 countries; including Canada, Israel, Australia, France, Great Britain, Switzerland and Belgium listening to the webcasts. Not only did Sports Radio Network provide audio coverage of the post-season festival via the internet, but the voices of Goldenberg and Avital were used by Pegasys Video of Enid, Oklahoma for their highly-heralded television broadcasts.

Sports Radio Network continued to break new ground at the start of 2002, as the web-based station partnered with the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL) by becoming the league's official broadcast carrier. With its exclusive live presentation of the 2002 league draft and the spring's NWBL Pro Cup Tournament, Sports Radio Network reached a nationwide audience of fans, validating the rapidly growing appeal of women's professional sports.

Sports Radio Network will once again be home to the 2003 NWBL Draft and Pro-Cup tournament, and will also expand its coverage to feature regular season games.

Robert Goldenberg 917-747-0617 Sports Radio Network sportsradionet@aol.com www.sportsradionet.com