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LINDON, Utah (AP) -- A former Brigham Young University basketball player has created an international stir after his friends put up a billboard to help him find a date.
Two-thousand women have responded to Lance Archibald's Web site www-dot-datelance-dot-com and billboard on I-15 near Lindon that says "I'm Lance! Let's Go Out!"
Lance has even received a response from the niece of Donnie and Marie Osmond. Anmaree Osmond's friends decided to put up a I-15 billboard and launch a Web site called www-dot-datemelance-dot-com.
Lance's Web site invites women to apply for a date with Archibald. Since it was launched, the Web site has already recorded more than a million hits.
Archibald's co-worker Noelle Bates estimates ten to 15 percent of the responses to the Web site have been from outside of the United States, while about 25 percent are from Utah.
Archibald is also getting response from the media. His billboard story has appeared in more than 150 newspapers, including five overseas. He's also been featured on more than one-hundred T-V news spots around the country.
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