FSN NOTES, QUOTES & ANECDOTES
by FOX Sports Net
BEST DAMN FIGHT NIGHT PERIOD
FSN's popular boxing series, BEST DAMN FIGHT NIGHT PERIOD, returns on Thursday March 27, with a 10-round super middleweight main event bout between 2004 U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Andre "S.O.G." Ward and Rubin "Mr. Hollywood" Williams from the HP Pavilion in San Jose, CA.
Hosted by Best Damn Sports Show Period's Chris Rose along with award-winning announcer Rich Marotta and fight analyst Sean O'Grady, the two-hour special airs at 8 p.m. local with a re-air at 11 p.m. local,
In the undercard, two up-and-coming fighters square off in a six-round junior middleweight fight. San Francisco's power punching Karim "Hard Hitta" Mayfield battles rising star Francisco "Chia" Santana, who hails from Santa Barbara, CA.
The fights took place on Thursday, March 20.
BEST DAMN SPORTS SHOW PERIOD
BDSSP is the network's nightly sports talk show hosted by Chris Rose, alongside NBA expert John Salley, former All-Star pitcher Rob Dibble, NFL veteran Rodney 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 Friday, March 28, one lucky contestant gets crowned as the Hooters Dream Girl. Hundreds of women competed in the contest; fans voted on Foxsports.com. After nearly 250,000 votes were cast, one girl was selected. Salley and Rose unveil the winner.
THIS WEEK ON BEST DAMN:
Wednesday, March 26 — DEBUT EPISODE: Best Damn Top 50: Dynamic Duos
Thursday, March 27 — BEST DAMN FIGHT NIGHT PERIOD: Andre Ward vs. Rubin Williams
Friday, March 28 — Mavericks head coach Avery Johnson, Browns TE Kellen Winslow, Jr., actor/radio personality Adam Carolla, FOX Soccer Channel's Max Bretos
Best Damn Quotes
Memphis coach John Calipari (on the possibility of Memphis star Derrick Rose going pro): "If he wants to do what's right for him and his family, he'll go pro...if he wants to do what's right for me and my family, he'll stay."
Bengals WR Chad Johnson (on what he said to Brett Favre a few seasons ago when the two met during pregame warmups): " 'Just throw me the ball. I just want you to know what it's like to throw to greatness.' I'm not kidding. That's what I told him."
Johnson (on the thought of being traded to the Cowboys): "If I end up in Dallas, I just look at which finger I'm going to put it on. That's it. Ain't no ifs, ands or buts."
SPORT SCIENCE
(Scheduling clarification: FSN aired SPORT SCIENCE: GEAR FACTOR on Sunday, March 23. FSN will air SPORT SCIENCE: TRICKS OF THE TRADE on Sunday, March 30).
Raptors sharpshooter Jason Kapono never liked the NBA's officiating decree that claims a player can't mathematically get a shot off in less than .3 of a second, the so-called Trent Tucker rule, so he grabbed Lakers guard Jordan Farmar and entered the SPORT SCIENCE lab with the intention of proving he can catch and shoot in fewer than .3 seconds.
But Kapono had to kill some time, because already waiting in the lab were U.S.A Soccer star Abby Wambach, who was taking part in an experiment to see if her bend-it-like-Beckham imitation curved more than a baseball, and Raiders K Sebastian Janikowski, who was warming up for a test to determine if kicking a football with the laces facing the kicker makes a difference in the distance and accuracy.
In this week's episode, Tricks of the Trade, host John Brenkus and his team of scientists delve into all of those experiments, plus Jeanette "Black Widow" Lee aims to defy physics on a pool table, Jaguars RB Maurice Jones-Drew uses the SPORT SCIENCE motion capture studio to find out why NFL defenders have such trouble tackling him and the show's scientists wonder if baseball's hitters should stop warming up with weights on their bats.
The newest installment of SPORT SCIENCE, recently nominated for four Sports Emmy awards, airs Sunday, March 23 at 9 p.m. local
UPCOMING: AMAZING SPORTS STORIES
Part movie, part documentary, FSN's newest program, AMAZING SPORTS STORIES, promises to touch the heart and soul of every sports fan. Using dramatic re-enactments, archival footage as well as interviews with historians and living principals, each of the 13 half-hour episodes focuses on an athlete or team whose unbelievable story has been lost to the annals of time.Be it the boxer who rose off his deathbed for one last fight to give his family a special Christmas, the baseball player turned World War II fighter pilot who overcame extraordinary odds to become the only man to play in a major league game on one leg or the two rival NFL teams that merged into one team to save the league from going out of business, the profiles showcased in AMAZING SPORTS STORIES are insightful, fascinating and often inspirational.
Created and executive produced by Bruce Nash, AMAZING SPORTS STORIES airs every Sunday night at 8 p.m. local. A hybrid combination of a mini-movie and a documentary, AMAZING SPORTS STORIES is unlike anything seen on FSN before. The premiere episode, "Bert Shepard: The Dream That Wouldn't Die," airs on Sunday, April 13.
FSN BASEBALL REPORT
FSN's BASEBALL REPORT returns on Friday, March 28 at 6 p.m. local. Hosted by Charissa Thompson and Tom Helmer, along with analysts Ken Rosenthal from Foxsports.com and former All-Star pitcher Mark Gubicza, the FSN BASEBALL REPORT is a fun, fast-paced 30-minute show that covers the week's biggest stories, offering up top-notch commentary and interviews with players and coaches from around the league.
In the 2008 debut edition, Thompson and Helmer preview the season with a look at the defending World Series Champion Boston Red Sox trip to Japan, where they opened the season with two games against the A's. Plus, with more than 350 players changing teams during the off-season, FSN catches you up on who went where and what uniform your favorite players will don in 2008.
This week's interview: Colorado Rockies 1B Todd Helton. The FSN BASEBALL REPORT airs every Friday at 6 p.m. local.
ATP TENNIS FROM INDIAN WELLS
FSN's coverage of the ATP Masters Series continues this week from Miami, the site of the Sony Ericsson Open. FSN has live early round coverage beginning Saturday, March 29 and running through Tuesday, April 1, airing daily at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. PST.FSN televises the quarterfinals on Wednesday, April 2 and Thursday, April 3 starting at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. EST and then again at 7 p.m. local.
When the tournament gets down to the final four on both the men's and women's sides, FSN has the semi-finals kicking off on Friday, April 4 at 1 p.m. EST/10 a.m. EST and again at 7 p.m. local.
Former ATP pro Justin Gimelstob and Sony Ericsson WTA Tour player Chandra Rubin provide expert analysis of the matches, while award-winning announcer Barry Tompkins handles play-by-play duties throughout the tournament.
THE FSN FINAL SCORE
This week, FSN continues its nightly sports highlight show THE FSN FINAL SCORE. The show is 30 minutes of fast-paced highlights of the day's best moments the sports world has to offer. FINAL SCORE airs nightly at 10:30 p.m. local with repeats airing regularly.
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