OFFLINE: SPORTSLINE TERMINATES E-COMMERCE DEAL WITH MVP.COM

          SportsLine.com announced on Friday that it has
     terminated its e-commerce agreement with MVP.com, which
     began in January 2000.  SportsLine stated that MVP.com
     remains overdue with its fourth quarter 2000 payment (see
     THE DAILY, 10/24), and that the move is due to MVP.com's
     breach of certain provisions of the agreement.  Talks for a
     restructuring of the deal were unsuccessful
     (SportsLine.com).  In S.F., Tommy Cummings noted that
     MVP.com's e-commerce partnership with SportsLine was a
     $120M, ten-year deal.  SportsLine said last month that it
     was owed a $5M quarterly payment from MVP.com. 
     SportsLine.com CEO Michael Levy, on the company's e-commerce
     efforts: "We will try to find a partner.  It's not anything
     [MVP.com has] done in their business.  It's just hard to
     raise money in this business" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 11/18).