Dave Newhouse, Legendary Sportswriter, to Appear on Internet Talk Radio Show Sports Mavericks" on Voice America Radio

Tuesday, September 7, 2004 at 5:00pm PST (8:00pm EST) Ida Mourie and Elleanor Starks online talk radio show, Sports Mavericks" on Internet radio station Voice America (http://www.voiceamerica.com), welcome legendary sportswriter Dave Newhouse.

(PRWEB) September 7, 2004 -- Sports Mavericks" hosts, Ida Mourie and Elleanor Starks, broadcasting on Internet radio station VoiceAmerica (http://www.voiceamerica.com), welcome legendary sportswriter Dave Newhouse on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 at 8:00pm EST. VoiceAmerica is a division of SurfNet Media Group, Inc (OTCBB: SFNM), a leading Internet broadcast media company.

Dave Newhouse will discuss how sports have changed over the last 40 years and what some sports heroes were really like as people and sportsmen. Dave will also explain why the competition in major league sports is getting better every year, and what student athletes will must do to physical, mentally and strategically contend in this competitive environment.

Dave Newhouse is a sports journalist with the Oakland Tribune/Alameda Newspaper Group. Three times in the last millennium, he was voted among the nation's 10 best sports columnists by the Associated Press Sports Editors. Newhouse's column is syndicated in Northern, Central California, and on the Internet. Newhouse has reported every major league sport as well as college and high school athletics.

Newhouse has written several books: Rose Bowl Football since 1902 (co-authored with Herb Michelson, The Jim Plunkett Story, Heismen: After The Glory, Jim Otto: The Pain of Glory, The Million Dollar Backfield (of the San Francisco 49ers), and The Ultimate Raider Trivia Book.

Listeners with questions, comments or opinions are encouraged to call in live, toll-free at 1-888-335-5204.

About Dave Newhouse

Newhouses career started in 1938, when he turned his love for baseball into a dream when he became a baseball writer for the Oakland Tribune. He has written articles on basketball greats like Yao Ming, and football stars such as OJ Simpson, Henry Killer" Lawrence, Jim Plunkett, Jim Otto, Oakland Raiders Team and San Francisco 49ers. Newhouse was reared in Menlo Park, California, and attended Menlo-Atherton High School where he held the school's shot-put record. Following four years in the United States Air Force where his journalism career was launched, he graduated from San Jose State University in 1964.

About Sports Mavericks"

Sport Mavericks" brings education and athleticism together to level the playing field in sports by advocating self-help and self-empowerment. It present real life experiences and solutions that educates parents and athletes, and helps them navigate through the challenges of collegiate sports, and the professional draft. Sports Mavericks" also educates the general public, presenting athletes that are "true" role models making major contributions to their communities and society at large.

Host/Creator, Ida R. Mourie, is a Sport Advocate and Lifestyle Consultant, and former Chaplin and Educational Director of the University of Florida Gator Parent Association (GPA). She is a Life Skill speaker to Junior and Senior College Athletes and developer of the Pro-Ready Impact Program.

Co-Host, Elleanor Starks is the Mother of Max Starks (former Left Tackle of University of Florida and 2004 Rookie with the Pittsburgh Steelers) and former President of the GPA. Under her leadership, she revamped the GPA as an advocacy group for parents and athletes. She has provided consulting services to parents at University of Michigan and Wake Forest University based on the GPA model.

Sport Mavericks" can be heard on live Tuesdays, 8:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST on http://www.voiceamerica.com. Listeners are encouraged to call in with their questions or comments at 888-335-5204. Sport Mavericks replays 12 hours later and archived shows are hosted on http://www.voiceamerica.com.

About SurfNet Media Group, Inc.

SurfNet (http://www.surfnetmedia.com/) is an Internet broadcast media company producing diverse audio content streamed 24/7, that enables sponsors to deliver cost-effective advertising content to targeted audiences. SurfNet's mission is to create and expand Internet communities by utilizing Internet broadcast media as a vehicle for communication and commerce. SurfNet's business opportunities include delivering corporate and genre based Internet radio to key constituencies; streaming traditional radio and Internet radio directly to desktops; facilitating distributed enterprise communications; and providing rich media content for on-line yellow pages. SurfNet trades on the OTCBB market under the symbol, SFMN.

SurfNet produce original, live, Internet talk radio programming through its networks, VoiceAmerica Radio (http://www.voiceamerica.com/) and BusinessAmerica Radio (http://www.businessamericaradio.com/). SurfNet utilizes its patented Metaphor technology as a cost-effective communications tool to deliver Internet radio programming and other rich media content. Metaphor is an HTML media container that adds to websites/desktops in seconds without downloading, easily streams audio and video, and modifies instantly from a single control point. Metaphor's applications include a media player, an email-free enterprise communications tool for distributed workforces, membership and affinity groups, a multimedia toolbar and a mini-web page.

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