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ONLINE NEWS & NOTES: USOC REACHES FOR GOLD WITH NEW WEB SITE

          The USOC will launch its World Wide Web site, USOC
     Online, on August 6 at www.olympic-usa.org.  Features will
     include: Inside the USOC; The Games; Sports A-Z (sponsored
     by the SGMA and detailing Olympic/Pan American sports); Kid
     Court; Online Store; Olympic News Network; and Olympic Life.

     The site was created by OR-based Creative Multimedia (USOC).

          CYBERCHIEFS: Traffic at the Chiefs' Web site,
     www.kcchiefs.com, "has doubled from this time last year and
     is expected to reach up to eight million visitors per month"
     during the '97 season.  Sprint Corp. and Health Midwest are
     advertising on the team's site, and "five more companies
     will sign sponsorship agreements in the next six weeks." 
     Team officials say "most visitors are males, 25-49 years old
     with an average income between $50,000 and $70,000 (K.C.
     BUSINESS JOURNAL, 7/28 issue)....Oscar De La Hoya's new web
     site at www.oscardelahoya.com, features news on De La Hoya
     Enterprises; Fan Club; Foundation; and his sponsors, which
     include John Henry and Speed Stick.  There is also an online
     store, as well as a number to call to order tickets for his
     September 13 fight with Hector Camacho (THE DAILY)....ESPN
     SportsZone was named the No. 1 ad-supported destination site
     on the Web for "unduplicated audience reach," according to a
     second quarter user survey released by @plan (AD AGE, 7/30).

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