SportsLine.com said that it ended its e-commerce
relationship with MVP.com because MVP.com "missed two
payments and owes" SportsLine.com $107M, according to Scott
Newman of BLOOMBERG NEWS. First Security Van Kasper analyst
John Shanley, on MVP.com: "Michael Jordan, [John] Elway and
[Wayne] Gretzky are finding out that they don't have the
same mystique with people buying online as they did with
die-hard sports fans." In looking at the online sporting
goods industry, Shanley said that "at least" 35 of the 300
companies who sold sporting goods online in January "have
shut their doors." Shanley: "We don't even follow sports e-
tailers anymore because none of our clients have the
slightest interest in them." MVP.com Dir of Corporate
Communications Paula Davis said that the company is looking
for "more investors, and hopes to have them in place by next
month." Davis: "I don't see us going away anytime soon"
(BLOOMBERG NEWS, 11/25). In S.F., Tommy Cummings wrote that
despite MVP.com's "outlook, there have been no signs of a
fire sale on the horizon" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 11/27).
