Total Sports TO Provide Content for AOL.COM Sports Web Center.

RALEIGH, N.C., March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Total Sports, a new media sports information company today announced an agreement with America Online (NYSE: AOL) for Total Sports to provide frequently updated sports news and features to AOL.COM, AOL's Website and the #1 consumer destination in cyberspace.

Total Sports provides visitors to AOL.COM's Sports Web Center with news summaries on the day's top sports stories and features. Additionally, Total Sports provides AOL.COM with special packages of updated coverage surrounding major sporting events including the NCAA Final Four, Daytona 500, the World Series and major golf tournaments.

"We are thrilled about our partnership with AOL," said George Schlukbier, President and COO of Total Sports. "This relationship takes advantage of our respective strengths and provides an enhanced level of content to the millions of visitors to AOL.COM's Sports Web Center."

"Total Sports is a great addition to our roster of sports partners on AOL.COM," said Jason Seiken, Executive Director for Channel Programming at America Online. "Total Sports will help AOL offer our visitors to AOL.COM's Sports Web center a complete package of sports news, scores, features and more."

Total Sports, a Raleigh, NC based company, creates and delivers high-quality game accounts, graphs, feature stories, and statistics to sports fans worldwide. The company TotalCasts(TM) (real-time event coverage) professional and college football, basketball, and baseball games over the Internet including the upcoming NCAA men's and women's basketball tournament (finalfour.net) and the entire 1999 Major League Baseball season.

Total Sports created, with Host Communications, The Total College Sports Network, an on-line network of leading schools and college conferences, and hosts NCAAchampionship.com. Additionally, Total Sports in print publishes the official, league approved encyclopedias for Major League Baseball (Total Baseball), the National Football League (Total Football), and the National Hockey League (Total Hockey). The Total Sports corporate Web site is located at info.totalsports.net. In addition to the AOL.com sports site, Total Sports also publishes the sports section for the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition (http://www.wsj.com), The Los Angeles Time LA Times.Com, (http://www.latimes.com) in partnership with Associated Press and the number one rated golf web site, golf.com in partnership with Media One and NBC Sports.