Retail store services, computerized on-line retail store services, online ordering services, electronic mail order catalog services featuring an array of basketball-themed merchandise; promoting the goods and services of others by allowing sponsors to affiliate these goods and services with a basketball program; promoting the sale of goods and services of others through the distribution of promotional contests provided over the internet; conducting public opinion poll surveys and public opinion poll surveys in the field of basketball for non-business, non-marketing purposes over the internet