CSTV to televise #6 Lehigh vs. #13 Missouri dual meet from historic New York Athletic Club on Weds., Jan. 12
1/10/2005
Eric Handler/CSTV
** First Televised Athletic Event From Legendary New York Club
NEW YORK, December 30, 2004 “History will be in the making on Wednesday, January 12, when CSTV: College Sports Television (www.collegesports.com) presents the telecast of a NCAA wrestling meet pitting #6 Lehigh against #13 Missouri from the historic New York Athletic Club in New York City (10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT).
It will be the first televised athletic event originating from the venerable Club, which was formed in 1868. Jason Knapp and Quint Kessenich will call the action for CSTV.
The New York Athletic Club has enjoyed a rich, unparalleled history of amateur athletic excellence across numerous sports, and has hosted many amateur wrestling events. New York Athletic Club athletes have captured at least 115 Olympic gold medals, 40 silver medals and 47 bronze medals, more than all but four countries.
College Sports TV’s January 12 telecast is part of the network’s extensive NCAA wrestling schedule, the only nationally televised college wrestling package, which also includes dual meets featuring defending NCAA champ Oklahoma State, runner-up Iowa and perennial powerhouses Ohio State, Nebraska, Penn State, Illinois and Minnesota. College Sports TV’s 2005 NCAA wrestling menu includes teams that have won all but one NCAA national team title since 1969, and 13 of the top 14 finishers at last year’s NCAA Championship.
Lehigh currently sports a 7-1 dual meet record, while Missouri stands at 4-0.
The meet could generate highly anticipated match-ups such as:
* #3-ranked Cory Cooperman of Lehigh against #16 Chris McCormick of Missouri at 141 pounds
* #1 Troy Letters of Lehigh against #8 Tyron Woodley of Missouri at 165 pounds
* #2 Ben Askren of Missouri vs. #14 Travis Frick of Lehigh at 174 pounds
* #3 Jon Trenge of Lehigh vs. #18 Jeff Foust of Missouri at 197 pounds.
College Sports TV’s college wrestling coverage extends to The 1 College Sports Show, the network’s groundbreaking studio show covering all aspects of college athletics, and CollegeSports.com and its network of more than 170 official athletic sites. CollegeSports.com’s coverage includes College Sports Pass, the leading online college sports audio and video broadband subscription service which provides live audio and video of wrestling and other events.
CollegeSports.com also features the exclusive GameTracker Live application, providing live statistics and scores for more than 15,000 college sporting events. The CollegeSports.com network includes official athletic sites for schools fielding some of the most successful wrestling programs, including Iowa, Illinois, Iowa State, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio State, Penn State and Central Michigan.
CSTV is a multi-media company that consists of the first-ever 24-hour college sports television network, College Sports TV; the leading college sports online network, CollegeSports.com; and the first ever 24-hour college sports radio network, SIRIUS College Sports Radio. Through its numerous platforms, CSTV provides more live college sports games, events, news, information, analysis and broadband content, and reaches more college sports fans, than any other company.
College Sports TV, voted the #1 emerging cable network in a Beta research study whose results were announced earlier this year, televises regular season and championship event coverage from over 35 men’s and women’s sports across every major collegiate athletic conference as well as many NCAA Championships. College Sports TV currently has agreements with the top six national distributors – Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, Charter, Cox and Adelphia, among others.
CollegeSports.com, the most-trafficked college sports Web site, and its network of more than 170 official athletic sites are the number one online source for college sports broadband content, news, information, scores and analysis. SIRIUS College Sports Radio will broadcast a comprehensive package of college football and basketball games from teams in the Big 10, Big 12, Big East, Pac 10, and SEC conferences, as well as from Notre Dame.
CSTV was co-founded by President and CEO Brian Bedol, Chairman Steve Greenberg and Executive Vice President Chris Bevilacqua. Bedol and Greenberg co-founded Classic Sports Network, which they sold to ESPN. It is now ESPN Classic.
Bevilacqua is a former senior executive with Nike Inc., where he headed the company’s successful foray into the college market. He was an All-American wrestler from Penn State, and has been an active supporter of wrestling his entire career.
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