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This season, fans of the AFL, NRL and Super 12s can now compete with like-minded sport fanatics around Australia. SYDNEY, February 16, 2001 This season, fans of the AFL, NRL and Super 12s can now compete with like-minded sport fanatics around Australia at the comprehensive online sporting site and tipping destination - Yahoo! Australia & NZ Sport (http://sport.yahoo.com.au). At Yahoo! Australia & NZ Sport, footy tipping , enthusiasts can share their passion with others and compete with friend and foe alike, free. The site provides tipping competitions for the major football codes throughout Australia and New Zealand. With regular updated sports reports from AAP, Reuters and Sportal, even the most inexperienced tipper can appear on the ball. "Yahoo! Australia & NZ Sport already provides up-to-date news, views and tables so the inclusion of footy tipping is an essential part of our comprehensive sports service," said Brian Boys, Sports Producer, Yahoo! Australia & NZ . "Now, all sports lovers can become footy experts and put some real thought behind their tipping." Punters can create their own private tipping competitions with friends, work mates, family, in fact anyone who is keen to test their footy knowledge against others. They can also play against everyone in the Yahoo! competition. By following the news at Yahoo! Australia & NZ Sport, novice tippers can learn the sports lingo and keep abreast of all the football codes including backgrounders on teams and individual players, current results and other news that may impact on their future performance. Now keen punters, hardcore fans and even amateurs can make managing a football competition not only easy and accessible but fun and FREE! Forget office wall charts and time-consuming updates on Monday mornings. Yahoo! Australia & NZ has done the hard yards, providing maximum control with minimum effort for the competition organiser. With the help of www.footytips.com.au , weekend footy results and participants’ scores are automatically updated including ranking all tippers. Tippers can choose to receive their score and a full summary of the results via email each Monday or can access the information at the site. People can even ask Yahoo! to send them a friendly email reminder each Friday to make sure they remember to get their tips in. Yahoo! Australia & NZ has gathered everything sports lovers need together in one, convenient location. At yahoo.com.au, sports lovers can check out the weather report for upcoming matches, shop for their favourity footy merchandise, bid for footy paraphernalia or chat online about their favourite game. To join in or establish your own footy tipping competition, or for all the latest sport news, visit www.yahoo.com.au and click on the link to Sport. Or head straight to sport.yahoo.com.au (nb: there is no need for a www). Good luck! About Yahoo! Australia & NZ Yahoo! Australia & NZ is one of the most recognised Internet brands in the region. It and SOLD.com.au are part of the Yahoo! global network of sites. By working with leading local companies, Yahoo! Australia & NZ provides comprehensive and localised media, commerce and communication services to millions of Australians and New Zealanders each month. For marketers and businesses, the company offers intelligent, innovative and integrated marketing, selling and Internet broadcast solutions for maximum impact. Yahoo! Australia & NZ has offices in Sydney and Melbourne and can be found on the Web at www.yahoo.com.au and www.yahoo.co.nz. About Yahoo! Inc Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 192 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customised enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company’s global Web network includes 24 World properties. Yahoo! has offices in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Canada and the United States, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Anna Featherstone Yahoo! Australia & NZ Tel: 02 8925 0100 or email: | |||