By Andrew Lippe

It sounds like a dream come true for collegiate fans: host your own
sports talk radio show, interact with fans of your favorite team from
around the country, but these are no longer fantasies thanks to the
Founder of ESPN, Bill Rasmussen, who today launched CollegeFanz.com.

The website is an interactive online experience dedicated to
collegiate sports. "Today there are so many things happening in the
sports business and for some reason no matter what happens there is
always room for more," says Rasmussen, CollegeFanz.com Founder and
CEO. Free registration starts today.

The debut of CollegeFanz.com is 28 years to the day that Rasmussen
launched ESPN. Rasmussen feels that today there should be something
more than networks spewing sports games at fans. He wanted to do
something where the fans could really be involved.

CollegeFanz.com is a social networking site that is centered on not
just having college sports games but on college life. Networks like
CSTV and ESPN are focused more on the distribution of games than
anything else.

"As much as I like what they do at ESPN they are about putting sports
news and games in front of people," says Rasmussen.

Instead of focusing on the major college sports like college football
and college basketball CollegeFanz.com will focus on secondary sports.
Phase two of the project will incorporate a $4.95 segment for
non-revenue sports from Division II & Division III schools. "It is an
opportunity we think to showcase those sports that never see the light
of day," says Rasmussen.

Sports including wrestling, lacrosse, and hockey, from secondary
schools would be prevalent on CollegeFanz.com. "Football and
basketball athletes are just a tiny percentage of student athletes
playing especially in secondary schools," says Rasmussen. In order to
distribute this video content they went to many of the conferences as
well as some of the individual schools themselves.

The website provides countless features and innovations. These include
a virtual campus that greets fans when they enter the site.  The
virtual campus will continually change throughout the year based on
the seasonal sports taking place.

Other features include the Registrar, where users create their
profiles; a Stadium and Arena area where fans can get scores and
information on their favorite teams; FanzRoom where fans make their
own dorm room based on their favorite team; and Fanz Fone, where up to
25 users can call for absolutely no charge, the campus store, and the
aforementioned Sports Talk Studio.

The Sports Talk Show radio show is like being in a real radio studio,
with unlimited listeners simultaneously. It gives a chance also for
those in the broadcast industry to get their feet wet with radio
broadcasts.

All games on CollegeFanz.com are archived and digitized from the
future. Fans years from now will be able to relive the Michigan loss
to Appalachian State.

Right now all video uses Adobe flash and most of the software tools
are up to date with current technology. Technically Rasmussen states
that something to this degree even a year ago wouldn't have been
possible. The College Fanz experience creation was assisted by The
Phoenix Group, Linqware, PA- SportsTicker and The Musser Group.

"CollegeFanz.com will be an ever-changing site," says Dan Gieschen,
senior architect of the Phoenix Group. Dan says that the Video web war
has not yet been won and they will continue to explore new and
innovative technologies.