Partners

With fiscal year 2008 sales of $48.2 billion, Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE® 50 company that serves approximately 14 million customers a week at more than 1,675 home improvement stores in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1946 and based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world. For more information, visit Lowes.com

CBSSports.com is a unit of CBS Interactive, a division within CBS that includes operations of CBS.com, CBSSports.com, CBSNews.com, the new broadband channel innertube and startrek.com. CBS Interactive is responsible for overseeing all consumer digital properties, in addition to exploring opportunities in the new media sector, including streaming of network programming, live shows produced exclusively for the Internet, podcasts and mob-isodes of CBS shows, among other features. In July 2005, the group revamped its news site, CBSNews.com, and launched an ambitious 24-hour, full service, on-demand service, designed to bypass cable news television. The site includes live reports from CBS News correspondents, the latest video and news, streaming video and archives.

The NCAA is a membership-led nonprofit association of colleges and universities committed to supporting academic and athletic opportunities for more than 400,000 student-athletes at more than 1,000 member colleges and universities. Each year, more than 54,000 student-athletes compete in NCAA championships in Divisions I, II and III sports. Visit www.ncaa.org and www.ncaa.com for more details about the Association. The NCAA is proud to have the following elite companies as official Corporate Champions: AT&T, Capital One and Coca-Cola and the following elite companies as official Corporate Partners: Enterprise, The Hartford, Hershey’s, LG, Lowe’s, Planters, State Farm and UPS.

Since 1990, Premier Sports Management has built a track record with some of the most prestigious organizations and corporations in the world of sports. The National Football League, the NCAA, Major League Soccer, and many others on the property side; Gatorade, New York Life, Bayer, Lowe’s and other corporations on the sponsor side.

Now available in Crystal Clear HD, CBS College Sports Network is the original 24-hour cable network dedicated to college sports. CBS College Sports has thousands of hours of great live programming highlighted by our coverage of over 35 men’s and women’s sports with hundreds of live games each and every season. CBS College Sports is the cable home of NCAA® March Madness® with over 100 hours of highlights, live look-ins, post game news conferences, game by game analysis, behind the scenes footage and an insider’s look at the tournament providing exclusive coverage not available anywhere else.



