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AND THROUGH THE WIRES: THE SITES FOR OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS

          THE GREAT OUTDOORS: CBS MARKETWATCH's John Thorsberg
     profiled Quokka Sports and Mountain Zone, adventure sports
     sites that are "cybercasting to audiences drawn to outdoor
     sports as participants and observers."  Gartner Group
     Research Dir Patrick Meehan, on Quokka: "I'm very impressed
     with the use of interactivity, the advanced theories of
     interactivity, that they are applying to the sports
     experience.  In terms of really getting it at that level,
     Quokka is pretty much leading the way."  Mountain Zone CEO
     Chuck Gottschalk: "We absolutely have the opportunity to
     grow this well into a $100 million-plus opportunity and
     that's just E-commerce.  We think we can be bigger than
     that" (CBS MARKETWATCH, 4/11)....MA-based Eastern Mountain
     Sports (EMS) has retained FL-based Internet Marketing Group
     to provide services toward building brand awareness and
     traffic for its site at www.emsonline.com (EMS).   
          CHANGING THE MODEL: Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch
     reported first-quarter online ticket sales of "nearly" $60M,
     up 265% over the same quarter last year.  During the month
     of March, the online company accounted for "nearly" 10% of
     total ticket sales for Ticketmaster (N.Y. TIMES, 4/14).
          MORE NOTES: Golf.com, a joint venture of NBC Sports,
     Total Sports and MediaOne, reported a site record 2,031,786
     page views during its coverage of The Masters (Total
     Sports)....CNNSI.com cites Media Matrix data which shows
     that it was the second most-visited sports site on the Web
     in February '99, behind ESPN.com.  The site registered 2.5
     million unique users, representing 4.2% of all Internet
     users (CNNSI.com)....USA TODAY's Michael Hiestand writes
     that personal Web sites for pro athletes "represent a
     supplemental marketing outlet" for some and "constitute a
     new revenue stream."  Athlete Direct has set up sites for 70
     athletes, with another 30 "in the works."  Company President
     Ross Schaufelberger says that today's top athletes "can earn
     annual 'six-figure' sums" with Web sites (USA TODAY, 4/14).

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