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Sports Briefs By The seattle.internet.com Team August 28, 2000 Seattle-based GameHouse.comhas added Winning Shot Soccer to its growing library of web-based games. Games currently under development are Reversi, Batt-A-Ratt, Mah Jong, Refrigerator Prose, Clone Machine and Texas Hold `em Poker. Operated by GarrInk Games & Technology as a portfolio and beta site. GameHouse.com is also a rapidly growing destination game site worldwide. It currently offers localized versions of its games in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and French. Bellevue-based WorldStream Communications and Seattle-based Allwebsports.com will be teaming up tomorrow to webcast the Indoor Professional Football League championship game between the Mississippi Fire Dogs and the Portland Prowlers. The live webcast will allow online participants to listen to play-by-play announcements and hold interactive discussions with other fans. Seattle-based Rivals.com has added TennisWeek.com to its network. The Tennis site is published by Eugene Scott, who ranked among America's top 10 tennis players on five separate occasions. According to Rivals.com Senior VP and Executive Producer David Eckoff, in-depth coverage makes TennisWeek.com an ideal site for the rivals.com network. "Now the latest news about professional and amateur tennis is only a few clicks away," says Eckoff. On the horse racing front, Seattle-based SeasonTicket.com has recently partnered with the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club to deliver personalized, video replay shows and news to horseracing fans via the Internet. The company will debut its Del Mar horseracing coverage this week with replays from the Saturday, August 26 Race Card, featuring the million dollar Pacific Classic. "Our partnership with Del Mar allows SeasonTicket.com to further expand our offerings and better serve sports fans," says Carl Weinstein, president and chief executive officer of SeasonTicket.com. "Del Mar is an Internet-savvy organization, and this alliance provides horseracing fans with an experience unavailable anywhere else on the Web." SeasonTicket.com is driven by its patent-pending Onecasting technology, which encompasses the entire process of integrating streaming video and audio, as well as text, into a customized programming model that delivers only the video highlights and information that has been pre-selected by the user.