Sportsprize Entertainment Inc. (JOCK) ein Outperformer???

07-09 SportsPrize Entertainment Inc. Announces New Board Members  (BW)
07-02 This Week on the Emerging Company Report Television Program  (PRN)
06-30 SportsPrize Entertainment Inc. Announces Private Placement Financing For US $1.0 Million  (BW)
06-29 Sportsprize Entertainment, Inc. Announces That it Has Never Had a Business Relationship With IP Equity, Inc.  (BW)
 
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PennyStockPicks.Com, LLC has been specializing in Internet-related companies in 1999. Our last eight stock picks have produced an average gain of 190% (highest price after profile)! As we approach the new millennium, there is one news item that continues to dominate the world scene: the growth of the Internet. Many experts now agree that the Internet is fundamentally changing the world of communication, entertainment and commerce in ways that were not even contemplated 5 years ago. Mark E. Hardie of Forrester Research, Inc., a leading publisher of technology research reports, advisory services and technology conferences, has written two research reports titled "Sports On The Web" and "Entertainment Commerce Networks". These reports briefly explain the current and future impact of online Sports and Entertainment web sites on the Internet. Our feature story presents a new and exciting company that specializes in these areas and has the potential of capitalizing in this explosive industry. We now present to you:

Our feature "Stock-Of-The-Month" for August 1999:




SportsPrize Entertainment, Inc.
(OTC BB: JOCK)
Bid - Ask: $3 1/4 - $3 7/16 (August 6, 1999)



Significant Newsbreak
Beta Release of SportsPrize.com Web Site set for September 15 due to Major Financing!



Late Breaking News

SportsPrize.com has just completed $2.5 million in financing, and has additional financing negotiations already underway. This significant amount of financing will now allow SportsPrize to proceed in delivering the Beta launch of its web site scheduled for September 15, 1999. The web site is intended to be in full operation and on-line to the World by September 30, 1999! Bearing in mind that these significant events are aproaching in the near future and that the stock is trading at all-time lows, helps us formulate an opinion that the stock has nowhere to go but up!

Company Profile

SportsPrize Entertainment, Inc. (OTC BB: JOCK) is a unique web-based entertainment company dedicated to creating a premier interactive Sports site on the Internet. Through its portal, SportsPrize.com, the Company, is developing an on-line sports entertainment and will include unique advertising, marketing and e-commerce opportunities, whose targeted audience will be sports fans from around the world. This unique combination of sports related entertainment and e-commerce opportunities has real benefit, value and service to its members, which creates the environment of a strong and continuing business model and revenue platform for the Company.

About the Company

The SportsPrize.com site will be a destination of choice for the huge audience of sports enthusiasts on the Internet. SportsPrize.com will offer free, fun and rewarding entertainment opportunities through the SportsPrize.com Tournament system. The SportsPrize Tournament is a unique and exciting game that allows sports fans and game players alike to test their knowledge and intuition in a variety of different sports for the chance to win points, prizes and discounts on merchandise. Additional content like the Tournament's results and ranking pages; sporting news and statistics; moderated chats with sports heroes who serve on our Advisory Board; instructional seminars; and behind the scenes interviews will add even more excitement for visitors to SportsPrize.com.

SportsPrize.com will also integrate valuable and fun merchandise and transactional opportunities for players and site visitors that will feature discounted sports products, brand name vendors, exciting memorabilia and autographed merchandise and an Onsite Auction.

Industry Analysis

Sports entertainment and Information sites on the Internet have seen dramatic growth in recent history. The top sites are receiving well in excess of one million page views per day. The primary demographics of that traffic is made up of upscale, educated, affluent men. Most are 25-54 year of age, who are college grads with household incomes of $70K plus per year income. Internet sports sites are becoming more popular with female users according to a survey by NPO Online. NPD found that 36% of female Net users receive sports info online.

Virtually all surveys project worldwide Internet use and e-commerce will grow significantly over the next decade. A recent study by International Data Corp. (IDC) estimates that by 2002, there will be 320 million Internet users and worldwide e-commerce will be valued at $425 billion. On-line advertising is expected to top $7.5 billion by 2002 (Jupiter Communications,). A study by Nielsen Media Research and CommerceNet released in mid-1999 indicates that in North America alone more than two in five people are Internet users and that 60% of these users or 55 million people are also Internet consumers. The Internet is also fast becoming a mainstream news source. More than one-third of Internet news audiences now goes on-line to get sports scores and information. This outstanding potential for growth presents opportunities for both existing and new companies to attract an Internet audience and develop additional revenue streams. While other web sites appeal to sports fans, attracting millions of hits per day (i.e., sites such as ESPN.com, Yahoo!Sports and CBS Sportsline), none have developed a concept that combines sports, interactive games and e-commerce like SportsPrize.com.

The Market Opportunity

The popularity of professional sports has never been more evident than on the Internet than it is today. While other sports related sites exist on the Internet, the Company has developed a unique concept that has not been exploited by existing sports web site formats. SportsPrize.com will incorporate the entertainment aspects of games and the challenge of competition with sports merchandising, promotion and marketing. Details are provided in the attached file.

Marketing Advantage: By incorporating the Company's Advertiser's and Sponsor's products or services into the SportsPrize Game, they can turn SportsPrize.com members into buyers. SportsPrize.com will offer a wide range of standard and custom advertising and sponsorship opportunities for their advertisers and sponsors. SportsPrize.com is specifically structured to provide sponsors and advertisers with real value by fostering multiple opportunities for interaction with its SportsPrize.com members as part of the play of the Tournament; the navigation of their site; their extensive e-commerce presence and sophisticated e-mail and in-package marketing programs.
Competitive Advantage: SportsPrize.com has developed a unique Internet business model that harnesses three major components required for a successful web business:

Compelling Content that touches the passion of the audience, including special content envisioned by their Sports Advisory Board of past and present sports heroes.
Community Features that permits and facilitates communication among its members, and allows them to create their own competitions within the SportsPrize Tournament, all ensuring a loyal and repeat user base.
Unique Commerce Opportunities which will be of real appeal and value to its members through associations with major corporations, retailers, brand manufacturers and sports memorabilia vendors.
Key Strategic Partnerships

SportsPrize is working with leading Internet and sports marketing partners, including Interactive Marketing Inc. (IMI) and Kaleidoscope Sports & Entertainment. IMI is a leader in developing Internet strategies for business, having worked with major Internet, Media and Brand companies on their online and promotional marketing strategies, including Yahoo!, Lycos, the National Football League, CBS, NBC, ESPN, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and American Express. Kaleidoscope, a full service sports, event and entertainment marketing company will serve as SportsPrize's lead marketing agency on brand building, sponsorship creation, advertising sales, cross promotions and public relations. Kaleidoscope's major accounts include General Motors, First USA and The Times Mirror Corporation. SportsPrize.com has also entered into a number of strategic relationships with leading vendors of general sports merchandise, memorabilia and collectibles as well as discount sports merchandise. Details are provided in the attached file.

The SportsPrize Community

The most successful web sites are those that develop a community. The SportsPrize.com Community will be a true on-line community focused on news, events, e-commerce and interactive services for people who love sports. SportsPrize.com will match the needs and interests of sports fans for information, entertainment, products and services with attractive and exclusive offers from vendors, marketers and brand name manufacturers, and use the collective buying power of its Community to provide real benefits and services to its Members. The opportunities are numerous:

Playing in the Tournament
Creating their own Tournament groups
Sharing discounts for on-line shopping
Exchanging news and views in chat rooms
Using interactive services for online access to experts such as athletes and coaches
Buying and selling merchandise with other members through the SportsPrize Auction
Keeping in touch via e-mail
The on-line interactivity at the heart of the SportsPrize.com Community enables members to interact with each other as well as sponsors and strategic partners on many levels: global, regional, state or provincial, and local. It brings the world of sports to members' home and offices and brings members into a much wider world of sports with fellow enthusiasts.

The Sportsprize Tournament

The SportsPrize Tournament is a new and proprietary online sports/entertainment competitive experience. The SportsPrize.com Tournament challenges players to test their knowledge and insight of their favorite sports, teams and players against all other Tournament players in pre-determined competitive groups. SportsPrize.com also encourages Private Competitions, which members can create for themselves to play against their friends or co-workers, or can be created for them by members of associations they are affiliated with such as their school, social or sports club, or neighborhood. Click here for details on Member Registration and Competition, the SportsPrize Game Play, and Winning Prizes.

SportsPrize Malls

The business model of the Company is to incorporate transactional and direct marketing opportunities into the prize and reward structure of the SportsPrize.com Tournament as well as offering all its members discount opportunities on products purchased through their site. They will offer a variety of transactional formats and opportunities for its members through four distinct shopping environments. These will include:

The Winner's Mall, where members, based on their success in the Tournament, can get special discounts on unique and desirable products;
The Clearance Mall, will offer specially priced and bargain opportunities on limited quantity merchandise;
The SuperStore, will offer to its members a wide variety of branded products at competitive prices; and
The SportsPrize Auction, will provide a fun opportunity for its members to compete with each other by bidding on rare or collectible items only available on SportsPrize.com.
Demographic Segmentation

The structure of their Tournament creates multiple, simultaneous competitions that segment their user base by geography and affinity interests. The Tournament play also segments its members by the specific sports that appeal to them most. In addition, the member registration form provides SportsPrize.com with a wealth of basic information about their membership and allows them to provide other targeted e-mail communications to users based on their prior expression of interest in receiving information and offers about new products and services. Click here for further details on demographic segmentation.

Why SportsPrize.com (JOCK) Warrants Investment Consideration

Unexploited Unique Concept. SportsPrize has developed a unique concept that combines sports, interactive games and e-commerce -- a concept that has not been exploited by existing sports web site formats.
Revenue Growth Potential. Once the SportsPrize.com portal is up-and-running, the Company will attempt to capitalize on a unique combination of sports-related entertainment and e-commerce opportunities. SportsPrize intends to use all available resources to develop additional revenue streams through its targeted audience of sports enthusiasts.
Solid Company Fundamentals. SportsPrize has developed many advantages that substantiate the fundamentals of a potentially successful company, such as: marketing advantages, competitive advantages, key partnerships, online communities, unique concept of the SportsPrize Tournament and Mall, and a targeted audience through demographic segmentation, which leads to the potential of increasing revenue growth.
Direct Business Plan and Marketing Strategy. SportsPrize's marketing and business strategy will be under the leadership of Interactive Marketing, Inc. (IMI), a leading interactive marketing consulting company with a proven track record. IMI's experience in maximizing revenue and market share potential for interactive media and technology companies such as Yahoo, Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), gives SportsPrize a tremendous advantage in their expansion plans.
Key Management Team. The Company's key team has the potential to create a successful company that is capable of achieving outstanding growth in the future.
Launching of a National Advertising and Promotion Campaign. SportsPrize has been and will continue to advertise on a national level through the Internet, public relations, joint-venture partnerships with other web sites and publicity programs to maximize exposure of the Company.
Key Management

The SportsPrize Management team has a broad range of experience and skills in business development, corporate finance, software development and entertainment. Management's primary goal is to build a corporate structure with additional senior level management and personnel in the sports marketing area that are capable of positioning the Company as a major force in the online Sports marketplace. Click here for a brief description of key management and their biographies.

Jeff Paquin - President and CEO
Michael Wiedder - Vice President Sales & Marketing
Donald Robert Mackay - Chief Financial Officer
Alan Gerson & Abe Carmel - Directors
John Thompson - Interactive Gaming Manager
Skye Cove - Chief Technical Manager
David R. Bissett - Corporate Secretary (B. Comm, LLB)
Corporate Financials


Company Name SportsPrize Entertainment, Inc.
Exchange Listed OTC BB: JOCK
Shares Outstanding ~ 17.564 million
Restricted and Pooled Shares ~ 13.50 million
Public Float ~ 3.064 million
Market Capitalization ~ $55 million
52-week High - Low $9 3/16 - $2 31/32
Recent Price $3 1/4 (bid) - $3 7/16 (ask), August 6, 1999
Industry Web-based Internet Portal
Specialty Online Sports Entertainment
and E-Commerce
Web Site www.sportsprize.com




Press Releases


7/09/99 SportsPrize Entertainment Inc. Announces New Board Members
7/02/99 This Week on the Emerging Company Report Television Program
6/30/99 SportsPrize Entertainment Inc. Announces Private Placement Financing For US $1.0 Million
6/24/99 SportsPrize Entertainment Hires Vice-President of Marketing
6/23/99 SportsPrize.com Set to Become the Premier Sport Site
6/22/99 Sportsprize Entertainment Inc. Announces Approval for Standard and Poor's Listing and Blue Sky Manual Exemption
6/09/99 DBC Sports to Provide Live Sports Feed and Overall Management of Interactive Game for SportsPrize.com
6/04/99 Kaleidoscope Sports & Entertainment Joins the SportsPrize Entertainment Web Team
5/21/99 SportsPrize Entertainment Inc. and Interactive Marketing Inc. team up to develop comprehensive e-commerce strategies for emerging Sports Entertainment Portal
5/12/99 SportsPrize Entertainment Inc. Merges With Kodiak Graphics Company

Recent & Future Media Coverage

Plans are on-going to increase investor & public awareness of the SportsPrize business concept on a national level:

Coordinated media blitz, will occur for the launching of the SportsPrize.com web site.
Intense Internet program, through a coordinated banner ad campaign (hyperlinks and advertisements), analyst reports that profile the Company on financial websites, and chat group discussions.
Upcoming Corporate News, numerous press releases regarding new company developments will be released to the public throughout the 3rd quarter of 1999.
Fax-Blast, will be disseminated to numerous stock brokers in the U.S. beginning August 16, 1999.



Technical Analysis
Based on the technical position and future business plan of SportsPrize, we believe the stock price has the potential to appreciate in the near future. On May 12, 1999, SportsPrize began its trading debut with quite a support from investors, sending the stock from around $6 to over $9. During the next two months, the stock price depreciated to its 52-week low of about $3. Its 52-week high is $9 3/16 and 52-week low is $ 2 31/32. In early July, the stock reached an oversold condition as displayed by the stochastics oscillator in the chart below. On about July 7, two significant indicators signalled an apparent buying opportunity: (1) a cross-over effect took place with the fast and slow stochastics oscillators, and (2) confirmation with the cross-over of price through the simple moving average. At that time, the stock surged 33% from $3 to about $4. Currently, the price has settled back to its base level of support at the low $3 range.

What we are showing you here, is that some technical indicators are more useful for predicting price movement than others. For this stock, we believe that the simple moving average with price and the stochastics oscillators are the better ones to use for our analysis. Knowing this, further application of technical analysis confirms that the stock price is now poised again for price appreciation.


3-Month Chart

Date of Chart: August 6, 1999


PennyStockPicks.Com, LLC believes the Company fits the profile of being undiscovered, undervalued and has the potential to appreciate in price in the third quarter of 1999. We feel the stock is an spectacular investment opportunity and is at a favorable buying price considering its short and long-term potential. Investing in this company does involve some short-term risk if the stock price falls through its current level of support of about $2 3/4 or volatility due to the low number of shares in the trading float. Our best judgement of the short-term (three months) target price is difficult to determine for this stock, but we feel the price can reach $5 1/4 (~ 75% higher than today's prices), and a conservative long-term (6 months to 1 year) target price of $8 (> 150% higher).




Conclusion
SportsPrize Entertainment, Inc. is an exciting new and unique web-based entertainment company dedicated to creating a premier interactive Sports site on the Internet. Through its on-line sports entertainment portal (which will include unique advertising, marketing and e-commerce opportunities), it is intended to attract an explosive audience of sports enthusiasts from around the globe. As the number of Internet users, customers, and sports enthusiasts continue to grow dramatically each month, millions of Internet users will visit sports-related sites. All of these positive factors along with the factors of "Why SportsPrize Warrants Investment Consideration", translates into the potential of growth and profitability for the Company.




Contacts


Company Head Office Research and Development Office Investor Relations
Corporate Sales and Marketing 101 West 5th Avenue Sonora Capital, Peter Hough
225 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 360 Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5Y 1H9 355 Burrad Street, Suite 1000
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 Tel: (888) 835-3783 Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 2G8
Tel: (877) 798-374-JOCK Fax: (604) 874-1542 Tel: (800) 665-7684
Website: www.sportsprize.com E-mail: info@sportsprize.com E-mail: sonora@direct.ca


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August 10, 1999 08:17

SportsPrize Selects INTERSHOP Technology for Its E-Commerce Solution
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- SportsPrize Entertainment, Inc. (OTC Bulletin-Board: JOCK), a sports-based entertainment, information and e-commerce Internet company, today announced that it has selected INTERSHOP electronic commerce software for its Internet business.

SportsPrize will deploy e-commerce solutions based on INTERSHOP Enterprise Edition to customize and streamline its online storefront. The integration of INTERSHOP's leading, sell-side technology with the SportsPrize.com business model will provide a turn-key solution that allows members of the SportsPrize community to efficiently browse, select and purchase sports merchandize and memorabilia online at the SportsPrize.com e-commerce stores.

The highly flexible, user-friendly interface will facilitate a state-of-the-art virtual shopping experience for SportsPrize members, while optimizing storefront performance and maximizing revenue for the Company. INTERSHOP's powerful Oracle 8 and Sybase Adaptive Server XI database will enable SportsPrize to handle a large number of customers, catalogues and concurrent transactions.

"INTERSHOP's advanced features will help SportsPrize create a comfortable, fun and very positive on-line shopping experience while meeting the demands of a highly dynamic, worldwide marketplace," said Jeff Paquin, President of SportsPrize.

The e-commerce components of the SportsPrize community will feature three distinct storefronts. The 'Winner's Mall' will sell the most popular items from each sports sector, and will be offered to the members of the community at varying discounts depending on how well they play the SportsPrize.com Tournament. The 'Clearance Mall' will offer sporting equipment, apparel and footwear at rock-bottom clearance prices, and the 'SuperStore' will feature individual specialty stores that will offer branded and non-branded sports equipment, apparel, memorabilia and footwear at competitive prices.

"We are excited about SportsPrize choosing INTERSHOP as their e-commerce application," said Ed Calan, INTERSHOP's Vice President of Marketing. "The functionality and stability of the INTERSHOP software as well as the extreme scalability of the application are ideal for a community-driven, high-traffic site and will accommodate SportsPrize.com's business growth and rapid expansion plans."

Using INTERSHOP's Enterprise System as the backbone of the SportsPrize Internet malls, marks a major milestone as SportsPrize rapidly approaches the launch of its live site.

About INTERSHOP Communications, Inc.

INTERSHOP Communications, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of sell-side electronic commerce software for complete business-to-business and business-to-consumer solutions. INTERSHOP customers include many of the world's largest telecommunications companies and commerce service providers such as BCE Emergis, Bell South, Concentric, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Mindspring, PSINet, Swisscom, Telecom New Zealand, and Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch. Major corporations have chosen INTERSHOP as their enterprise e-commerce application including Bosch, Canon USA, Celestial Seasonings, Electronic Arts, Hewlett-Packard, Mercedes Benz U.S. International, Nat West and Silicon Graphics. To date, INTERSHOP is the global leader in Internet commerce licenses with more than 40,000 stores licenses sold. Founded in 1992, INTERSHOP is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in the U.S., Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Sweden and the United Kingdom. For more information, call INTERSHOP at 1-800-736-5197 or send e-mail to sales@INTERSHOP.com or visit www.INTERSHOP.com .

About SportsPrize Entertainment, Inc.

SportsPrize Entertainment, Inc. is a Web-based entertainment company dedicated to creating the premier interactive Sports Community on the Internet. A rapidly evolving worldwide Web is increasingly becoming a mainstream news and entertainment source, with one third of all on-line users targeting sports-related information (Jupiter Communications, New York). SportsPrize plans to leverage the power of sports entertainment and information by incorporating innovative advertising, marketing and e-commerce opportunities that will have global appeal for sports fans. The Company's portal SportsPrize.com will constitute a unique, multi-faceted on-line Sports Community, the main draw of which will be the "SportsPrize Tournament," a proprietary, interactive game designed to challenge and reward sports enthusiasts. Played free by on-line members, the game will be key to building a loyal community of repeat visitors to the Company's Web site. Interactive links that enable SportsPrize members to view live sporting news feeds, check in for up-to-date sporting scores and communicate via chat rooms and free e-mail, will further capture the attention of sports fans. The portal will operate its own e-commerce stores and Auction Hall facilitating one-stop, on-line shopping for quality sports apparel, equipment and authentic sports memorabilia. With prominent Internet and sports marketing partners, SportsPrize.com is poised to become one of the most exciting destinations on the net. The corporate Web site for SportsPrize.com can be accessed at www.sportsprize.com .

'Safe Harbor' statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This release contains forward-looking statements, including terminology such as "state-of-the-art" and "premier," that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance, new product development, reliance on key strategic alliances, fluctuations in operating results and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

SOURCE SportsPrize Entertainment, Inc.

/CONTACT: Jeff Paquin, President of SportsPrize Entertainment, Inc.,
888-335-3783, ext. 329, or info@sportsprize.com; or Cathy Hjelt of INTERSHOP
Communications, 415-229-0135, or c.hjelt@intershop.com; or Investor Relations,
Julie Glen or Harvey Goralnick both of FOCUS Partners LLC, 212-752-9445, or
jock@focuspartners.com; for SportsPrize Entertainment, Inc./

/Web site: www.INTERSHOP.com

www.sportsprize.com

WWW.FOCUSPARTNERS.COM/