Wrestler Eric Bradley Is Named CSTV Student-Athlete of The Week
NEW YORK, February 14, 2005 – Penn State wrestler Eric Bradley has been named the CSTV: College Sports Television Student-Athlete of the Week, personifying excellence both on and off the playing field. Bradley’s honor was announced Thursday evening within CSTV’s The 1 College Sports Show and will be featured on www.CollegeSports.com, the online component of CSTV, for the week. He is now in contention to win the CSTV Student-Athlete of the Month award, which is selected through votes cast by visitors to CSTV’s CollegeSports.com Web site.
Eric Bradley hit the mat and ended last season claiming Penn State’s 16th Big Ten title and compiling an overall record of 36-5. Bradley was highly sought by college recruiters from his hometown of Plaistow, NH, but back injuries kept him from competing in Penn State’s wrestling program until the 2003-2004 season, his sophomore/junior year. Making-up for lost time, this being his second collegiate wrestling season, Bradley ranks fifth in the nation, competing in the 184 pound weight class, and is 22-3 overall.
The Nittany Lions are 10-9 and ranked 14th, competing in a Big Ten Conference where nine teams are currently ranked in the Top 25 nationally. Bradley is a recreation, parks and tourism management major.
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 the 2003 Beta research study, 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 select NCAA Championships. CSTV and the Mountain West Conference recently announced a fully integrated multi-media partnership, beginning in Fall 2006 that will deliver more games to more people in more homes across more sports than any other Conference partnership. College Sports TV currently has agreements with the top three national distributors – Comcast, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable, among others. CollegeSports.com, the most-trafficked college sports Web site, and its network of nearly 160 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.
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