Future Events Press Releases

We continue to clear out the press releases from the Fang's Bites inbox and we put together stuff that's looking ahead past this week.

First, we look at the week ahead with Golf Channel (don't call it "The" Golf Channel, just Golf Channel).

COMING UP ON GOLF CHANNEL… Nov. 30 – Dec. 6, 2009

Revenge on Big Break Disney Golf

Relive Watson’s Near-Miss at the 2009 Open Championship

Original Programming Premieres and Highlights

(All times eastern)

Big Break Disney Golf

Time: Tuesday 10 – 11 p.m.

Hosts: Vince Cellini, Stephanie Sparks

Revenge will be on the mind of Gipper Finau as the five remaining contestants will compete in closest-to-the-pin and up-and-down challenges on a new episode of Big Break Disney Golf. This time, there is no immunity on the line. The two-losing players from each challenge will go head-to-head in a dramatic three-hole, stroke play match to determine who is safe and onto the next show. Tuesday’s episode of Big Break Disney Golf will re-air Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET.

2009 Open Championship Highlights (Premiere)

Time: Wednesday 10 – 11 p.m.

GOLF CHANNEL will premiere a one-hour highlight show recapping the dramatics from the 2009 Open Championship from Turnberry, when Stewart Cink defeated Tom Watson in a four-hole playoff for his first major championship victory.

European Tour Year in Review

Time: Wednesday, 5 – 6 p.m.

European Tour Weekly will recap the top storylines from the 2009 European Tour season, capped off by Lee Westwood winning the Dubai World Championship and the season-long Race to Dubai.

News and Talk Show Programming Highlights

Golf Central

Live Airings: Monday – Sunday 6-6:30 p.m. (Live)

Monday – Wednesday, Golf Central will recap all of the top storylines from the Omega Mission Hills World Cup, and will preview the Chevron World Challenge and the final stages of the PGA TOUR and LPGA Qualifying Tournaments. Thursday – Sunday at 6 p.m. ET, Golf Central will recap the action from the tournaments with highlights, interviews and analysis. Steve Sands will report for Golf Central from the Chevron World Challenge, Inga Hammond from the PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament and Tom Abbott from the LPGA Qualifying Tournament.

Golf Central Pre Game

Live Airings: Thursday – Friday 2:30 – 3 p.m.

Saturday – Sunday 12:30 – 1 p.m.

Golf Central Pre Game will preview all of the action at the Chevron World Challenge and the PGA TOUR and LPGA Qualifying Tournaments with interviews, early highlights and analysis. Kraig Kann and Charlie Rymer will host Golf Central Pre Game from the network’s Orlando studios.

To the ESPN 30 for 30 series and the final documentary of its "fall series" which airs on December 12 following the Heisman Trophy presentation. This documentary will focus the University of Miami's football program.

Fall Slate of ESPN Films’ “30 for 30” Series to Conclude with The U

ESPN Films’ critically acclaimed “30 for 30” series will conclude its fall slate Saturday, Dec. 12 at 9 p.m. ET, immediately following the Heisman Trophy presentation on ESPN, with The U - a two-hour documentary about the dramatic rise of the University of Miami football program in the 1980s. Directed by Miami native and alum, Billy Corben (Cocaine Cowboys), and produced by rakontur and ESPN Films, the film is an intimate look at the program’s sudden and jolting transformation into a football powerhouse that essentially changed the rules of the game as told by the players, coaches, students and administrators who were there.

With music by long-time Canes supporter and rap artist Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell and Honor Roll Music, The U peels back the layers of a program that claimed four national titles from the 1983 thru 1991 seasons and produced a steady wave of NFL stars. Bennie Blades, Melvin Bratton, Alonzo Highsmith, Michael Irvin, Bernie Kosar, Santana Moss, Brett Perriman, Jeremy Shockey and former head coaches Dennis Erickson, Jimmy Johnson and Howard Schnellenberger are among the 38 program insiders who were interviewed about what propelled Miami to the top and kept it there as the brash, controversial team its competition loved to hate. Here is a video clip:

Johnson: “When I first came to the University of Miami, the TV series Miami Vice was very popular and I wanted to play on that. That’s why we took the swagger that we did.”

Perriman on criticism of the program: “It was a lot of bigotry and it’s because we were young African Americans, for the most part, bringing a bravado, a different style that the University of Miami had never seen.”

Irvin on the team’s reputation: "It wasn’t any conspiracy or the media – they didn’t do anything. We were bad boys and we were enjoying being bad boys…"

Campbell on allegations he was paying players: “If they needed $50 to buy some food that weekend, no, I would never give it to them because that was against the NCAA rules…Giving a kid $100 to buy him some sneakers so he won't go jump in some other kid’s dorm room, steal his stereo, no, I wouldn’t give a kid any money.”

The “30 for 30” series will continue March 14, 2009 with Peabody Award-winning director Dan Klores’ Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. the New York Knicks which tells the story of Reggie Miller and how he earned his title as “The Garden’s Greatest Villain.” The series will then settle into consecutive Tuesday night airings for the spring, beginning April 13.

Other previously announced “30 for 30” projects are: Reggie Rock Bythewood (One Night in Vegas), Academy Award winner Bill Couturié (Guru of Go), Ice Cube (Straight Outta L.A.), Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary (The 16^th Man), Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (Steve Bartman: Catching Hell), Jonathan Hock (The Best That Never Was), Academy Award nominee Steve James (No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson), the duo of Lucas Jansen and Adam Kurland (Silly Little Game), Spike Jonze, Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine (Birth of Big Air), two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (The Steinbrenner Family Business), Academy Award nominee Frank Marshall (Right to Play), Steve Michaels, Joel Surnow and Jonathan Koch (Charismatic), Academy Award nominee Brett Morgen (June 17, 1994), two-time NBA MVP and first-time filmmaker Steve Nash (Into the Wind), Academy Award nominee Ron Shelton (Jordan Rides the Bus), John Singleton (Marion Jones: Press Pause) and Jeff Zimbalist (The Two Escobars).

And we look well into the future as PBS will air a documentary on Bobby Hurley, Sr., the father of former Duke point guard, Bobby Hurley, Jr., and the coach of St. Anthony (NJ) High School's basketball team. You may know the story of the senior Hurley who has molded a winner every year despite being in one of the poorest areas in New Jersey and having hardly any training facilities. This will be quite interesting.

THE STREET STOPS HERE TO PREMIERE ON PBS STATIONS NATIONWIDE

MONDAY, MARCH 29 AT 10:00 PM (ET)

(check local listings)

Film Tells Story of Legendary Coach Bob Hurley Sr. and the St. Anthony High School Friars' 2007-08 Basketball Team

CHICAGO - The Street Stops Here chronicles the legendary St. Anthony High School (Jersey City, NJ) basketball coach Bob Hurley Sr. and the journey of his team's national record-setting 25^th state championship season. The Street Stops Here will premiere Monday, March 29, 2010 at 10:00 pm (ET), (check local listings) during the height of March Madness just before the Final Four and shares the inspiring story of a coach's mission to change kids lives armed with nothing more than a basketball. This documentary is presented by WTTW National Productions and produced by Chicago-based TeamWorks Media (TWM).

The Street Stops Here is a portrait of one of the most successful basketball coaches at any level, Bob Hurley Sr., and his career-long struggle to inspire and motivate his young and impressionable players. St. Anthony High School, a poor, inner-city Catholic school, relies on Coach Hurley and the national following of its basketball program to keep its doors open. Housed in a building abandoned by a public school, St. Anthony has no gym, no weight room and has had minimal building improvements in nearly a century. Even with his many championship trophies, Hurley works just as hard with his players off the court and is most proud of having sent all but two of the hundreds of players he has coached throughout his 36-year career on to college. The Street Stops Here weaves together stories of teenagers fighting to get out of underprivileged neighborhoods, fundraising amidst the collapse of Wall Street and how one man uses basketball to teach life lessons.

Never before have cameras captured the St. Anthony story from the inside to this magnitude. TWM was granted unlimited and unfiltered access to Hurley's St. Anthony basketball program and had cameras at every step of their emotional journey toward their third USA Today National Championship and Hurley's National Coach of the Year performance. From September 2007 through April 2008, TWM crews captured more than 400 hours of high-definition footage of the lives of Hurley and his players both on and off the court, showing Hurley's strong influence in transforming his young players' lives.

"This documentary is a great way to make everyone around the country aware of the mission of St. Anthony," says Coach Bob Hurley Sr. "The kids here need this school. They need a place that keeps them off the street, but every year it's a struggle just to keep our doors open. Inviting TeamWorks Media to go behind-the-scenes for this documentary will show people how hard our kids and our staff work not just at winning basketball games, but at finding ways to succeed in life."

Members of the 2007-08 team featured in The Street Stops Here and currently playing in the NCAA include Mike Rosario (Rutgers), Tyshawn Taylor (Kansas), Travon Woodall (Pittsburgh), Jio Fontan (Fordham) and Dominic Cheek (Villanova).

With NCAA college basketball stars among its alumni, the St. Anthony basketball program has touched many of the most revered coaches and players in the game. TWM secured interviews with some of basketball's most renowned names to offer insights as part of The Street Stops Here, including Duke basketball coach and coach of USA Basketball's gold medal-winning 2008 Olympic Team Mike Krzyzewski; North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams; Hurley's oldest son, former Duke star and NBA player Bobby Hurley; and Hall of Fame high school coaching legend, Morgan Wootten. Danny Hurley, Bob's youngest son and coach of the St. Benedict's Prep basketball team, which finished 2^nd in the final 2008 USA Today rankings behind only his father's St. Anthony team, is also prominently featured in the documentary.

TeamWorks Media has produced several sports documentaries including The Team That Changed The World, the critically-acclaimed historical documentary revealing how the Harlem Globetrotters helped to break the color barrier in professional basketball and the team's influence on the world view of America; Disco Demolition 25^th Anniversary: The Real Story, a documentary examining the Chicago White Sox promotion that quickly became a cultural phenomenon and an influential moment in music history, symbolizing the end of disco music; and The Demons Within, a documentary chronicling the behind-the-scenes drama of the nationally-ranked 1999-2000 DePaul University men's basketball team which included four players that went on to play in the NBA.

For additional information, visit www.TheStreetStopsHeremovie.com or check out the film on Facebook (www.facebook.com/TheStreetStopsHere) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/streetstopshere).

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About TeamWorks Media

TeamWorks Media is a Chicago-based sports and entertainment content company. TeamWorks Media's extensive portfolio includes branded entertainment, television shows, documentaries and integrated marketing and public relations campaigns for many notable brands and agencies. Represented by Creative Artists Agency, TeamWorks Media creates, acquires and develops properties into high-quality original programming across all platforms. TeamWorks Media is the marketing agency of record for the Big Ten Conference, the Midwest bureau of ESPN and a production partner of Converse, Live Nation, and NASCAR Images. For additional information, visit www.teamworksmedia.com.

About WTTW National Productions

WTTW National Productions is a premier producer and presenter of original, high-quality television programs for both public and commercial television broadcast. WTTW National Productions is a division of Window to the World Communications, Inc., the parent company of WTTW11 Chicago, the nation's most-watched public television station. For more than 50 years, WTTW11 and WTTW National Productions have introduced a wide array of groundbreaking television programming - reflecting the world's rich and diverse arts and entertainment scene as well as education, politics, public affairs, business and religion - to a national audience. Its landmark innovative series and original productions include the critically-acclaimed performance showcases Soundstage, Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis and David Broza at Masada: The Sunrise Concert; cultural series Grannies on Safari and MEXICO - One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless; the business series CEO Exchange; the documentary series Retirement Revolution and WordWorld, the first of four children's properties to come from the Ready To Learn Partnership. More information about WTTW National Productions is available at www.wttw.com/national.

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