AVP Announces Sacramento Debut

"We are excited to bring the AVP Tour to Northern California where the
sport of volleyball is highly regarded," said Leonard Armato, CEO and Tour
Commissioner.com.
"Our ongoing work with the NCAA is indicative of the value that
Web -based access to this historical content offers," said Jeff Catt,
ThomasTech Vice President, Sales + Marketing.

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The debut ESPNU show will feature College GameDay commentators
host Chris Fowler , analysts Jay Bilas, Digger Phelps, Dick Vitale and
ESPN. ThomasTech
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It also features
a promoter partnership with the Sacramento Sports Commission in which it will
be responsible for selling all local revenue for the tournament, including
tickets , concessions, sponsorships and hospitality. 121
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About the NCAA

The NCAA is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and
universities committed to supporting academic and athletic
opportunities for more than 360,000 student-athletes annually at more
than 1,000 member colleges and universities.

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"We've come a long way in attracting major sporting events to this
community," said John Nunan, chairman of the Sacramento Sports Commission. at the California Exposition and State
Fair Administration Office and featured AVP Commissioner Leonard Armato and
player Kerri Walsh.

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ThomasTech, a software and systems integrator that builds content
management and publishing solutions for professional publishers,
industrial manufacturers, and other organizations , previously
digitized and designed the Web-based championship results data
repository covering 104 cumulative years of championship games in
three NCAA Division I sports: baseball, softball, and outdoor track.

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comprehensive studio programming, replays of ABC Sports, ESPN , ESPN2
and ESPN Regional Television games, plus specials and more. There is a different connection that all of us have to our
college teams.

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followed by a first round men's basketball game from
the West Coast Conference Tournament (Santa Clara, Calif. "We're looking forward to leveraging our success in Southern
California at the Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Huntington Beach, San Diego
and Santa Barbara events to bring the AVP Tour to its Northern California fans
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Web Archive Gives Sports Fans Access to
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In its continuing work with the National Collegiate Athletic
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It marks the first time the AVP will stop in Sacramento.

About the Sacramento Sports Commission
The Sacramento Sports Commission is a joint city-county advisory board
created in the 1980s to attract and develop major sporting events in the
Sacramento area.thomastechsolutions .com

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The debut show, staged from the campus
site of the next day's Texas at Oklahoma State men's college
basketball game, will be simulcast on ESPN2., headquarters of ESPN Regional
Television (ERT) which will handle the primary production
responsibilities for ESPNU. College GameDay
show, ESPNU will present its first live event telecasts -- a men's
semifinal game from the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament (Nashville,
Tenn.

Burke Magnus, ESPNU VP and GM, on some network programming
highlights:
"Football and men's and women's basketball have been ESPN
hallmarks for 25 years, so clearly we plan to emphasize those
mass-appeal sports on ESPNU. The AVP
Sacramento Open will kick off with a qualifier on Thursday, June 15 and
continue through the weekend with the men's and women's finals on Saturday,
June 17 and Sunday, June 18. AVP operates the industry's
most prominent national touring series, the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour,
which was organized in 1983. is a software and systems
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Mike Hall , ESPNU signature anchor on what makes college sports
special:
"There is something different about the atmosphere in college
games. women in professional beach volleyball. Olympic Track and Field Trials; 1994, 1998 and 2003 NCAA Men's
Basketball Tournament; NCAA Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and
Field Championships in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007; and 2007 NCAA Division I
Women's Volleyball Championships.com

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----ESPNU, a new
college sports network, will launch on "03-04-05" -- Friday, with a two-hour live special edition ESPNU College GameDay from
Stillwater, Okla. The 24-hour television network is the key component of
the multi-media ESPNU initiative that will deliver college sports
content across ESPN's family of services, such as ESPN.C.m."

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(OTC Bulletin Board: AVPI),
a lifestyle sports entertainment company focused on professional beach
volleyball announced today they are joining forces to bring the fast-growing
AVP Tour to Sacramento this summer for the AVP Sacramento Open, June 15-18,
2006. The
sports records are now available online in a searchable archive of
college sports statistics at http://web1.ncaa. Headquartered in Horsham,
Pa.

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Action will include a variety of top Division I football and men's
and women's basketball mixed with baseball, softball, volleyball,
lacrosse , hockey, wrestling and more.com, ESPN The
Magazine, ESPN Mobile (wireless), ESPN Radio, ESPN Interactive ,
ESPN360 (broadband), merchandising and more
Original Dream Job winner Mike Hall will serve as ESPNU's
signature anchor, hosting the majority of the network's studio
programming from Charlotte , N.) at 9 p. There are plenty of remarkable stories about athletes in
sports that don't get a lot of exposure. - AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour will make its first stop ever in the Capital
City and will include a promoter partnership with the Sacramento Sports
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Tour, Inc.S.sacsports.com.

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Business Editors/Technology Writers

HORSHAM, Pa. "With our expertise in
digitizing vast stores of information from a variety of physical
formats, and developing databases to manage and use that information,
we were able to help the NCAA and college sports fans get immediate,
easy access to a rich archive of sports information.

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ESPNU to Launch Friday March 4; College Sports Network To Feature Collection of Quality Event + Studio Programming

com senior writer Andy Katz, in addition to Hall and ESPNU
basketball analyst Doug Gottlieb.
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Event programming will be
the cornerstone of ESPNU, highlighted by approximately 300 live events
(regular-season and championships) in the network's first year.com/MediaZone/ESPNU_photos ."
A press conference in Sacramento announcing the AVP Sacramento Open was
held on Friday, Jan. In 2004, AVP athletes successfully represented the United
States during the Olympics in Athens , Greece, winning gold and bronze medals,
the first medals won by U.com

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ET. We can add texture to the
network by bringing those stories to fans nationally. We are thrilled
that, through successful promoter partnerships, we are able to bring the
excitement of beach volleyball inland, expanding beach volleyball and reaching
a larger audience.m. is a leading lifestyle sports
entertainment company focused on the production, marketing and distribution of
professional beach volleyball events worldwide. Entire game programs are also easily
viewable online via scanned images .

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More than 150 of the top professional beach volleyball athletes will
compete in the tournament which will be televised live on FOX. Featuring more than 150 of the top American men
and women competitors in the sport, AVP staged 14 events throughout the United
States in 2005 ., EMC Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, and
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We will supplement them by showcasing
regular-season and championship events from many emerging college
sports . For more information, please visit
http://www. Users can search the archive by
year, sport, school, athletics conference, or student-athlete, and
drill down to individual events and box scores .

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ESPNU has secured distribution agreements with DIRECTV, Adelphia,
several smaller affiliates and is close to distribution agreements
with others.

ThomasTech Digitizes NCAA Football and Volleyball Sports Records

ncaa.org/ncaa/mainsearch.
ThomasTech builds solutions by combining industry-leading third-party
software, custom-developed components, and value-added integration,
implementation , and production services., with additional offices in London, UK, ThomasTech is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Thomas Publishing Company, LLC.

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"These world-class beach volleyball players will appreciate the atmosphere and
enthusiasm that Sacramento provides at this sort of events.S. Past SSC events held over the last 12 years include: 2000
and 2004 U.

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After the 7-9 p. (ThomasTech) has
completed the digitization of the paper archives of NCAA Football
(Divisions 1AA, II, and III) and volleyball championship records.

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, a wholly owned subsidiary of AVP, Inc. Sacramento is a great sports city and its fans have embraced
many different sport ventures, including several high-growth, emerging sports
like our own. Each year, more than
49,000 student-athletes compete in NCAA championships in Divisions I,
II and III sports.

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Maybe it's because we look at college as some of the
best years of our lives. The involvement of the Sacramento Sports Commission in the
promotion of this event is very significant for AVP as the Commission has a
long history of promoting many world class sporting events. 20 at 10:30 a.
AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour, Inc. For more information, go to www.

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For more
information , please visit http://www.
The new NCAA Football and volleyball championship records archive
spans more than 125,000 pages of information such as statistical data
on teams, student-athletes, and scores , as well as biographical
information on student-athletes. For more information, visit
www.

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