MAJOR LEAGUE LACROSSE ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF BUFFALO SUMMER SHOWCASE EVENT
Press Conference Scheduled for Friday at 10:30am in Dunn Tire Park

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (May 11, 2000) Major League Lacrosse (MLL) Founder and CEO of Body By Jake Enterprises Jake Steinfeld and four-time NCAA All-American Casey Powell will announce the details of the Buffalo MLL Summer Showcase event in August at a press conference tomorrow at 10:30 AM (ET) at Pettibone's Grill.

"We are thrilled to have Buffalo as one of the stops in the MLL Summer Showcase launch," said Steinfeld. "The growth of the sport of lacrosse in upstate New York and the success of the areas sports teams, as well as the fan support from the community, make Buffalo and Dunn Tire Park an attractive site to introduce professional outdoor lacrosse MLL-style. We hope this will be the first of many Major League Lacrosse games here." The Buffalo MLL Summer Showcase game will be played on Friday, August 11th at 8:00 PM (ET) at Dunn Tire Park and will be nationally televised on FOX Sports Net. Tickets go on sale May 27th and will be available at the Dunn Tire Park Box Office as well as through Tickets.com.

"Having grown up in upstate New York, I spent most of my lacrosse career competing in this area. I am excited to play before the Buffalo crowd and treat them to a level of play they have never before seen," added MLL star and two-time NCAA Player of the Year Casey Powell. Other western New York region players scheduled to participate in the MLL Summer Showcase are 1999 NCAA Player of the Year John Grant, Jr. (Ontario, Canada) and two-time NCAA All-Americans Tim Soudan (Rochester, NY) and Mario Lopez of the Buffalo Bandits. Major League Lacrosse is expected to announce more regional players at the conclusion of the NCAA championship tournament., May 29th.

The MLL Summer Showcase is an All-Star Tour taking place in prospective MLL cities beginning July 8th in Columbus, Ohio to raise awareness and excitement for the league, which is scheduled to debut in 2001. Featuring 40 of the top lacrosse players in the world, MLL Summer Showcase games will be played on weekends through the end of August. A 60-game MLL schedule will commence in June of 2001, encompassing 56 regular season games (14 per team), a mid-season All-Star Game, two playoffs and a Championship Game.

Buffalo joins Rochester, Columbus and Philadelphia as confirmed MLL Summer Showcase cities for the league s first year. The other cities that are currently under consideration to host one of the three remaining Summer Showcase dates include Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Fairfield County, Conn., Long Island, Newark, N.J., and Washington, D.C.

In addition to the broadcast on FOX Sports Net, ESPN2 will broadcast the MLL Summer Showcase game in Philadelphia on Monday, July 17th at 1:00 pm EST. The remaining games will be televised on the FOX Sports Net regional affiliate in that game s market.

MLL is a professional outdoor lacrosse league that was created by Jake Steinfeld, Chairman of Body By Jake Enterprises and founding partners Dave Morrow, a former champion lacrosse player and now CEO of Warrior Lacrosse, a leading global provider of innovative and high performance lacrosse equipment and Timothy B. Robertson, former CEO of the Family Channel and the current chairman of Bay Shore Enterprises, LLC., an investment holding company with activities in international media and Internet technology ventures; and SFX Sports Group, a division of SFX, which is also providing management, marketing and consulting services to the MLL.
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