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Thursday, September 23, 2004

DELAWARE-MASSACHUSETTS THE COLLEGE SPORTS TELEVISION GAME OF THE WEEK

PHILADELPHIA, PA - A rematch of last year's A-10 co-champions who played a triple-overtime thriller is College Sports Television's (CSTV) college football game of the week this Saturday as Delaware visits Massachusetts at 1:00 p.m.

Delaware (2-1), the defending I-AA national champions, is ranked No. 4 in the latest Sports Network top 25 and owns a 22-4 advantage in the all-time series versus UMass (2-1), which is rated No. 16. Lat season's three-overtime affair won by Delaware (51-45) was the third-longest game in Atlantic 10 history and featured 50 first downs and a combined 950 yards of total offense.

Tom McCarthy will handle the play-by-play duties, while former Maryland and New England Patriots quarterback Scott Zolak will serve as the color commentator. Jenny Kavnar will be reporting from the sidelines.

In addition to CSTV, the game will be aired live on CN8 in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire.

College Sports TV televises more college sports than any other network, including regular season and championship event coverage from every major collegiate athletic conference. The network televises 30 men's and women's college sports, including football, basketball, baseball, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, wrestling and volleyball.

Over the last 30 days, College Sports TV has launched on Comcast systems in San Francisco-Oakland, Baltimore, Denver, Seattle and Spokane, Wash., Washington, DC, Pittsburgh, Portland, OR, Tucson, Sacramento, Fresno and other markets. Adelphia has launched the network in Cincinnati, Buffalo, Key Biscayne and South Dade, FL, and Time Warner Cable has added College Sports TV in Dayton, Wilmington, NC, Palm Springs/Palm Desert, CA and Shreveport, LA. Insight has launched College Sports TV in markets such as Lexington, Peoria, Rockford and Normal, IL. CSTV is now available on all Insight systems.