ESPN Hosting College Football Coaches

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Coaches from some of college football’s biggest teams will be making the rounds on the ESPN family of networks beginning this Monday, July 22^nd.  Coaches from the ACC, SEC, Big 10, and Pac 12 will appear on a variety of ESPN programs, including: College Football Live, SportsCenter, First Take, and Highly Questionable on television.  On radio, they will appear on: SVP and Rusillo, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, Coach and Company, and SportsCenter Tonight as well as on chats, podcasts, and more online. 

Coaches from the ACC will make appearances on July 29^th and 30^th.  ACC coaches will be doing interviews July 31^st and August 1^st.  Pac-12 coaches will make appearances on TV and radio on July 24^th and 25^th.  Coaches from the SEC will appear on TV and radio July 22^nd and 23^rd.  Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott will visit ESPN’s headquarters on Thursday, July 25^th.  He will make the rounds from 12pm EST to 2:45pm EST.  During his time at ESPN’s headquarters, Scott will make appearances on SportsCenter and on ESPN Radio’s SVP & Rusillo.

A full schedule of coaches and their appearance schedules is available below.

SEC

July 22 (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.)	July 23 (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
James Franklin (Vanderbilt)	Bret Bielema (Arkansas)
Hugh Freeze (Mississippi)	Butch Jones (Tennessee)
Les Miles (LSU)	Gus Malzahn (Auburn)
Dan Mullen (Mississippi State)	Will Muschamp (Florida)
Gary Pinkel (Missouri)	Steve Spurrier (South Carolina)
Mark Richt (Georgia)	Mark Stoops (Kentucky)
Kevin Sumlin (Texas A&M)
Nick Saban (Alabama)

 

Pac-12

July 24 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.)	July 25 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
Sonny Dykes (California)	Todd Graham (Arizona State)
Mark Helfrich (Oregon)	Lane Kiffin (USC)
Mike Leach (Washington State)	Mike MacIntyre (Colorado)
Mike Riley (Oregon State)	Jim Mora (UCLA)
Steve Sarkisian (Washington)	Rich Rodriguez (Arizona)
David Shaw (Stanford)	Kyle Whittingham (Utah)

 

ACC

July 29 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.)	July 30 (10 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
Paul Chryst (Pittsburgh)	Steve Addazio (Boston College)
David Cutcliffe (Duke)	Frank Beamer (Virginia Tech)
Dave Doeren (NC State)	Randy Edsall (Maryland)
Larry Fedora (North Carolina)	Jimbo Fisher (Florida State)
Paul Johnson (Georgia Tech)	Al Golden (Miami)
Mike London (Virginia)	Jim Grobe (Wake Forest)

 

Big Ten

July 31 (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.)	August 1 (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
Gary Anderson (Wisconsin)	Tim Beckman (Illinois)
Darrell Hazell (Purdue)	Mark Dantonio (Michigan State)
Jerry Kill (Minnesota)	Kirk Ferentz (Iowa)
Urban Meyer (Ohio State)	Pat Fitzgerald (Northwestern)
Bo Pelini (Nebraska)	Brady Hoke (Michigan)
Kevin Wilson (Indiana)	Bill O’Brien (Penn State)

 

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ESPN Offering Extensive Coverage Of 2013 Open Championship

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Courtesy: ESPN

 

ESPN will broadcast all four rounds of the PGA’s annual Open Championship live next weekend, July 18^th – 21^st.  ESPN and WatchESPN will have eleven hours of live coverage beginning with the first two rounds July 18^th and 19^th.  The first two rounds will be broadcast from 4am – 3pm each day.  Saturday’s round three coverage begins at 7am EST and runs through 2:30pm EST.  Round Four cover begins at 6am EST and runs through 1:30 pm EST.

Those that can’t catch coverage when it airs live next weekend need not worry.  All four rounds will be broadcast in an encore presentation.  The live broadcast and encore presentation of The Open are just part of the sixty-five total hours that center on The Open.  Also celebrating the 142^nd renewal of one of golf’s biggest tournaments is The Best of The Open Championship.  The encore presentation of this feature has been edited for time.  It will be broadcast next Thursday – Sunday, July 18^th – 21^st.  the program will be broadcast Thursday – Saturday from 7pm – 10pm EST on ESPN.  Sunday’s broadcast will air on ESPN2 from 9pm – 12am EST.  Fans can get highlights of each day’s best moments on The Open Championship Today from 3pm – 6pm EST July 18^th and 19^th on ESPN and at the same time on ABC July 20^th and 21^st.  All broadcasts will be simulcast on ESPN Radio affiliates nationwide, online at ESPNRadio.com and on TheOpen.com.  A full rundown of coverage times and networks is available below.

SportsCenter will have its own special Open Championship coverage live from Scotland’s Muirfield Golf Links.  It will broadcast a one-hour special, SportsCenter at the Open Championship.  The special will air Wednesday, July 17^th at 2pm.  There will also be a number of live in-depth reports beginning Monday, July 15^th.

ESPN’s Mike Tirico will anchor coverage of the broadcasts for the 18^th consecutive year.  He will be joined by Scott Van Pelt of ESPN’s SVP and Rusillo.  The pair will be joined by legendary BBC golf broadcaster Peter Alliss Thursday and Friday July 18^th and 19^th.  Van Pelt will also serve as hole announcer along with reporters Curtis Strange, Dottie Pepper, and Sean McDonough.  Paul Azinger, David Duvall and Peter Alliss will all serve as analysts for the four-day tournament at different times.  Andy North, Judy Rankin, Dottie Pepper, and Bill Kratzert will be on-course reporters.

During coverage of the annual Open Championship, ESPN will use two technologies to help viewers follow every shot throughout the hole.  The first of the technologies, “Virutal Aerial”, examines wind condition throughout the course and its impact on each hole.  The tech debuted at the 2012 Open Championship.  The second of the tech used to bring viewers into the Open is known as “Flight Tracker.”  This real-time feature will be used on six of the match’s holes.  It will create a virtual line allowing viewers to follow the ball from tee to hole on each of the six holes chosen to feature this tech.

Along with all of the in-depth coverage provided by ESPN, ESPN Radio, WatchESPN, and ABC, ESPN Classic will have fifty-five hours of special golf programming in a tribute to The Open in the days leading up to the famed tournament.  It all begins next Monday, July 15^th at 11am EST with a broadcast of highlights from the 1978 Open Championship.  That year’s tournament was won by golf legend Jack Nicklaus.  The programming will run straight through 4am on Thursday, July 18^th, when ESPN’s coverage of The Open Championship begins.  The new edition of ESPN The Magazine hits newsstands tomorrow, July 12^th.  It will have a preview of next week’s match.  In the meantime, a complete broadcast schedule of next week’s Open Championship is available below.

The Open Championship – Muirfield Golf Links, Gullane, Scotland

(all times U.S. Eastern)

Day/Date	Program	Start	Network
Wed., July 17	SportsCenter at The Open Championship	2 p.m.	ESPN2, WatchESPN
Thu., July 18	First Round	4 a.m.	ESPN, WatchESPN
Thu., July 18	First Round	7 a.m.	ESPN Radio
Thu., July 18	The Open Championship Today	3 p.m.	ESPN, WatchESPN
Thu., July 18	Best of The Open Championship	7 p.m.	ESPN, WatchESPN
Fri., July 19	Second Round	4 a.m.	ESPN, WatchESPN
Fri., July 19	Second Round	7 a.m.	ESPN Radio
Fri., July 19	The Open Championship Today	3 p.m.	ESPN, WatchESPN
Fri., July 19	Best of The Open Championship	7 p.m.	ESPN, WatchESPN
Sat., July 20	Third Round	7 a.m.	ESPN, WatchESPN
Sat., July 20	Third Round	9 a.m.	ESPN Radio
Sat., July 20	The Open Championship Today	3 p.m.	ABC
Sat., July 20	Best of The Open Championship	7 p.m.	ESPN, WatchESPN
Sun., July 21	Final Round	6 a.m.	ESPN, WatchESPN
Sun., July 21	Final Round	8 a.m.	ESPN Radio
Sun., July 21	The Open Championship Today	3 p.m.	ABC
Sun., July 21	Best of The Open Championship	9 p.m.	ESPN2, WatchESPN
Mon., July 22	Best of The Open Championship	Noon	ESPN2, WatchESPN

There is far more available on The Open On Demand and via other outlets.  For all of that information and more, fans can go online to http://www.facebook.com/espn and “Like” it or the official ESPN website, http://www.espn.com.

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