FSN NOTES, QUOTES & ANECDOTES
by FOX Sports Net
FSN's College Football Coverage A Smashing Success
BEST DAMN SPORTS SHOW PERIOD
Amanda Beard, Olympic gold medal swimmer and arguably the most popular female athlete in the world, is joining FSN's Best Damn Sports Show Period as correspondent, assigned to cover major sporting events. Beard will also join the crew for its annual Super Bowl road show.
"I always dreamed of working in television and the one show that was top of my list was BDSSP," said Beard. "All the guys have treated me as a friend over the years when I was a guest, now I get to join them in expanding the show's audience and putting my personal touches on the Best Damn Show on TV!"
Beard, who served as co-host of BDSSP's Super Bowl XLI Fashion Show in Miami, has been a guest on the show numerous times and has developed great chemistry with BDSSP host Chris Rose and co-hosts Rob Dibble, John Salley and Rodney Peete Beard will do features and interviews from the World Series, Super Bowl, Allstate BCS National Championship Game, Daytona 500 and many of the biggest contests in sports
BDSSP is the network's nightly sports talk show hosted by Rose, alongside NBA expert Salley, former All-Star pitcher Dibble, NFL veteran Peete and BDSSP reporter Charissa Thompson. Regularly featuring fun interviews with top athletes, coaches, celebrities and entertainers, BDSSP airs weeknights at 9 p.m., 11 p.m., and 12:30 a.m. local.
THIS WEEK ON BEST DAMN:
Wednesday, October 17 — Baltimore Orioles 1B Kevin Millar guest hosts, Giants DE Michael Strahan, Ravens LB Ray Lewis, College basketball roundtable with coaches Tim Floyd (USC), Ben Howland (UCLA), Rick Barnes (Texas) & Jeff Capel (Oklahoma)
Thursday, October 18 — BEST DAMN TOP 50 MEMORABLE BASEBALL PLAYS
Friday, October 19 — Millar guest hosts, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr., actors Dave Koechner and Carl Weathers from "The Comebacks."
BEST DAMN QUOTES
Rob Dibble (on the Yankees recent woes in the opening round of the playoffs): "They think its Joe Torre's fault that they haven't won a championship. They don't give credit to Cleveland or Boston or the White Sox. You gotta give some credit to some of the other people. If you let Joe Torre go, you're stupid."
Rodney Peete (joking he's upset that the Carolina Panthers signed Vinny Testaverde): "I'm hurt. I played for Carolina. They didn't even call me." John Salley responds: "They didn't call on you when you were there."
SPORT SCIENCE
Jerry Rice was never the fastest receiver on the field. Nor was he the tallest. He couldn't jump the highest and didn't have the biggest hands. Yet he is, undoubtedly, the greatest wide receiver to ever play in the NFL. So how is that possible?
When Rice came into the SPORT SCIENCE lab, the show's scientists gave him the answers. It turns out that Rice's reaction time is more than 30 percent faster than the average athlete's. Put in simpler terms, Rice was a step past the defender before the defender could even react.
Plus, for years, hitting a major league fastball has been considered by many to be the hardest thing to do in sports. But now SPORT SCIENCE proves that to be true. In a super-slow motion experiment, we find out that a 95 mph fastball leaves the pitcher's hand and arrives in the catcher's mitt in less time than it takes for the hitter to blink an eye. Hard to hit what you can't see.
This week, SPORT SCIENCE slows everything down to analyze what happens in that blink of an eye and looks at just how much difference every split second can make between winning and losing. SPORT SCIENCE: REACTION TIME, featuring such big name athletes as Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger, Bengals WR Chad Johnson, Chargers DE Luis Castillo, Jacksonville RB Maurice Jones-Drew, NFL legend Rice, former MLB all-star Steve Finley, Clippers F Corey Maggette, Raptors sharpshooter Jason Kapono and future NHL Hall of Famer Luc Robitaille, airs on Sunday, October 21 at Midnight ET/9 p.m. PST.
ANECDOTE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS SUCCESS
FSN's presentation of the Big 12 showdown between No. 6 Oklahoma and No. 11 Missouri on Saturday, October 13 at 6:30 PM EST delivered an impressive 2.5 rating according to Nielsen Media Research. That rating is the fourth highest ever for a college football game on FSN and the highest on the network since the USC vs. Fresno State game on November 11, 2005 delivered a 2.7.
Leading into the game, the COLLEGE FOOTBALL SATURDAY KICKOFF SHOW delivered a 0.5 HH rating, the highest rating ever for FSN's college football pre-game studio show.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL ON FSN
The BCS rankings are out and not even Carnac could have foreseen the way this college football season is going. South Florida at No. 2? Boston College at No. 3? At least national powerhouse Oklahoma has kept some sense of normalcy in the polls, coming in at No. 5.
This week, the 6-1 Sooners travel to Iowa State with the intention of racking up their seventh win and putting themselves in great shape to move up the polls should one of the four teams above them falter. Of course, the 1-6 Cyclones have watched Michigan, Cal, LSU and USC all get knocked off by underdogs and are hoping to add Oklahoma to that list of upset victims. FSN's college football coverage starts at 12 p.m. EST on Saturday, October 20 with the COLLEGE FOOTBALL SATURDAY KICKOFF SHOW presented by Kyocera.
Saturday, October 20 (all times eastern)
12 p.m. — College Football Saturday Kickoff presented by Kyocera in FSN HD (Host Mike Goldberg, analyst D'Marco Farr)
12:30 p.m. — Big 12 Football presented by Kyocera in FSN HD: No. 5 Oklahoma at Iowa State (PxP Bill Land, analyst Dave Lapham, sideline reporter Jim Knox)
BCS RATINGS SHOW and BCS BREAKDOWN
FSN has the BCS covered each week, with bookend programs breaking down the championship contenders and analyzing the teams that will likely drop out of the top-10 before the season is out. On Friday, October 19 at 6 p.m. local, BCS BREAKDOWN host Tom Helmer along with analysts Eddie George, Petros Papadakis and Gary Barnett and reporter Charissa Thompson preview the weekend's upcoming games and discuss which contests will have the biggest impact on the BCS standings.
Then on Sunday, October 21 at 10:30 p.m. local, the crew reconvenes to take an early look at the BCS rankings on the BCS RATINGS SHOW, trying to make sense of an upside down season. Helmer, Papadakis and Barnett look at the rise and fall of the nation's top teams as upsets are guaranteed to continue.
FSN PRO FOOTBALL PREVIEW
OK, we admit it — PRO FOOTBALL PREVIEW been asking questions about the New England Patriots performance all season. But after another week in which Tom Brady throws five touchdowns, the New England offense scores at will and the defense – even in maybe their worst game of the season, still looks spectacular, FSN's PRO FOOTBALL PREVIEW is forced to wonder: Is this New England Patriots squad better than the 2001, 2003 or 2004 Super Bowl Championship teams?
PRO FOOTBALL PREVIEW host Jay Glazer and analysts Jason Sehorn, Tim Brown and Eddie George break down the Patriots on both sides of the ball and determine if this is a great team or an all-time team that NFL fans will be talking about for decades to come. FSN PRO FOOTBALL PREVIEW airs on Friday, October 19 at 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. local, on Saturday mornings (check local listings) and Sundays at 10 a.m. ET/ 7 a.m. PT.
A few years ago while playing for the Chargers, current Saints QB Drew Brees got the idea to start a program that would take kids fishing — but not just any kids, terminally ill children from Children's Hospital in San Diego. "Sometimes the best treatment is just to get them out (of the hospital) and put a smile on their face," Brees tells PFP reporter Laura Okmin.. "Sometimes that's the best therapy, to get them away from the treatments and the medicine and the doctors. Give them a place where they can just relax and forget about that for a while and just catch fish." Okmin talks with Brees about the program and the satisfaction he gets from seeing the joy on the kids' faces.
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