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Cingular Wireless/ABC Sports All-America Player of the Week Finalists Announced ATLANTA, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Ohio State wide receiver Santonio Holmes, Purdue quarterback Kyle Orton, Wake Forest quarterback Cory Randolph and Oregon State wide receiver Mike Hass have been selected as finalists for the Cingular Wireless/ABC Sports All-America Player of the Week award.Who will be this week's winner is still undecided and the final decision now rests in the hands of college football fans nationwide. For the first time in college football history, fans can now make the call on who they think deserves to be the All-America Player of the Week with the power and ease of wireless text-messaging. Cingular is making the voting open to other wireless carriers* allowing even more fans to participate. Fans can also vote online at ESPN.com (keyword: cingular). College football fans can cast their votes up until 8 p.m. EDT on Sunday, September 12. The winner will be announced during the September 12 11 p.m. EST broadcast of ESPN "SportsCenter." Here's how fans can vote in the Cingular/ABC Sports All-America Player of the Week: * Text "PLAYER" to "64444" on your wireless phones * Follow the prompt to vote for your All-America selection * Alternatively, go to http://www.espn.com/ and enter keyword "Cingular" For fans voting on their wireless phones, they need only register one time. Then, each week, the four candidates for Player of the Week will automatically be sent to their wireless phones. The winner will be awarded a Cingular/ABC Sports All-America Player of the Week trophy. Each time fans vote, they will be entered into a sweepstakes to win a trip to the Bowl Championship Series game of their choice or thousands of other instant prizes. On December 1, fans will also get a chance to determine who the best player in the nation is by voting for the Cingular/ABC Sports All-America Player of the Year. Fans will have until December 8 to choose from among five finalists -- voting by either text messaging or online. The selection process will culminate on December 11 at 2 p.m. EST in a one-hour special on ABC Sports when the Cingular Wireless/ABC Sports All- America Player of the Year (selected by fans), and the All-America team (selected by the Football Writers Association of America), will be announced. *Other wireless carriers must opt-in for their subscribers to participate ABOUT CINGULAR WIRELESS Cingular Wireless, a joint venture between SBC Communications and BellSouth , serves more than 25 million voice and data customers across the United States. A leader in mobile voice and data communications, Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover(SM), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Cingular is the largest provider of GSM services in the United States, and has a 100 percent digital GSM/GPRS footprint across its service area. It also launched the world's first commercial deployment of wireless services using Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) technology. Cingular also provides corporate e-mail and other advanced data services through its GPRS, EDGE and Mobitex packet data networks. Details of the company are available at http://www.cingular.com/ . Get Cingular Wireless press releases e-mailed to you automatically. Sign up at http://www.cingular.com/newsroom . Cingular Wireless/ABC Sports CONTACT: Bates Grainger of Career Sports & Entertainment,+1-770-331-6617, or +1-770-226-5526, [email protected];or Clay Owen of Cingular Wireless, +1-404-236-6153, [email protected] Web site: http://www.cingular.com/http://www.espn.com/ |