Calling All Sports Fans: Get Your Sports To Go!

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Calling All Sports Fans: Get Your Sports to Go! (NAPSA)—As sports fans everywhere look forward to each game of the 2004-2005 football season, FOX Sports and Sorrent, a mobile entertainment company, are delivering the football season directly to fans’ cell phones. While the roar of the crowd or the smell of chili and wings won't be there, fans will get instant sports updates, a full fantasy football game and an arcadestyle video game all delivered straight to their cell phone. New technological advances allow sports fans more options than ever. Away from the TV? You can still watch the game Every football fan has been there. Stuck at a wedding, a recital, a trip to the in-laws’; any conflict that has pulled them away from the television during precious football season. Fans know that football season is fleeting, and these games make Sundays in the Fall so special. FOX Sports Mobile delivers vital information, live updates, news, scores, standings, and odds directly to fans’ phones so they never miss a play. FOX Sports Mobile also includes the irresistible GameTrax, a live graphic representation of the actual NFL game. Are you ready for some Fantasy Football? Now on your phone. While pro football players shed sweat andblood in training camps, the fantasy freaks of the nation poured through stats and news to devise their fantasy draft strategy. Just because the season has started doesn’t meanit’s too late to get in the game. The launch of FOX Sport Fantasy Football brings fans’ favorite gridiron pastime to the mobile phone. Enthusiasts play the role of general manager and start with a multimillion dollar budget to build a weekly roster and key updates are sent directly to fans on their mobile phones. Scores are calculated based on the rosters’ performance, GameTrax RTS OB! Falcons Ravens 23 ATL Falcons 10 20 30 40 50 40 30 20 10 Down Ballon [Rx To go CUES) 267) Make The Call—Sports fans now use cell phones to track their favorite teams and play in fantasy leagues. and weekly high-score winners take home a $100 gift certificate to spend at FOXSports.com. Community wide leader boards track league rankings so fantasy fans always know where they stand. Fun and games At the end of the day, whenall the fantasy trades have been madeandthefinal whistle blows on the pro-football action, football fans thirsty for more can turn to their phone and play for themselves. FOX Sports Football ‘05 is a mobile football game that truly captures the excitement of FOX Sports’ beloved football broadcast—with more than 100 offensive plays and special features like changing weather conditions, this is as closest thing to real football found on a cell phone. For the serious football players, FOX Sports Football ‘05 offers a “Season Mode” that allows fans to create a team and play an entire season. For more information about how to turn your cell phone into the ultimate sports survival kit, visit www.sorrent.com.