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CAPE COD, Mass. - Commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC^®) Rudy Keeling announced today that the Conference has formed a media partnership with the New England Sports Network (NESN) to launch a Game of the Week to be televised on New England's premier sports network as part of NESN University Football Saturday.

The season-long football package includes Ivy League, Colonial Athletic Association, and New England Small College Athletic Conference match-ups.  Eric Frede and Steve DeOssie will call the action live from the NESN broadcast booth, with Paul Souza serving as sideline reporter.  The complete fall schedule includes Dartmouth at Yale (10/6), Princeton at Brown (10/13), Princeton at Harvard (10/20), Rhode Island at New Hampshire (10/27), UMass at Rhode Island (11/3), Amherst at Williams (11/10), and Maine at New Hampshire (11/17).

"We are excited to partner with NESN to launch the ECAC Game of the Week," says Rudy Keeling, Commissioner of the ECAC. "The athletic competition that exists at our member colleges and universities in New England is some of the best in the country, and fans, family, and alumni will now be able to follow their teams both in New England and throughout the country via DBS satellite providers."

"NESN's commitment to deliver the very best in local sports is unrivaled," said Joel Feld, NESN's Vice President of Programming and Executive Producer. "This partnership with the ECAC greatly enhances our network's plans to deliver the deepest coverage of college sports content in the region, which is what we set out to do when we launched NESN University last fall."

USA World Events, a premier sports marketing and media production company has been contracted to manage the weekly production, in partnership with NESN and the ECAC. Previously, USA World Events worked with NESN to televise the Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star Game.

About NESN
NESN is owned by the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins and delivered to over 4 million homes throughout the six-state New England region.  The definitive source for New England sports programming, NESN is the top rated regional sports network in the country delivering award winning Red Sox and Bruins coverage, a popular sports news and highlights program NESN SportsDesk and a unique sports debate and discussion show The Globe 10.0.  NESN's 2007/08 college sports schedule will include almost 100 events featuring at least 17 New England schools.

About the ECAC®
The ECAC is the nation's largest athletic and the only multi-divisional conference in the country with 321 Division I, II, and III colleges and universities.  The ECAC stretches from Maine to Georgia and westerly to Illinois. Established in 1938, the ECAC, a non-profit service organization, sponsors 98 championships in 37 men's and women's sports and assigns more than 5,200 officials in 15 sports.  The ECAC also administers 10 affiliate sports organizations and six playing leagues and through the public relations arm of the conference, more than 4,000 student-athletes in 21 sports are recognized.  Finally, the ECAC serves as the primary conference for select members in the sports of men's and women's ice hockey, men's lacrosse, men's gymnastics, wrestling, fencing and rowing.