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College Fanz Sports Network Announces NAIA Football Game of the Week
MT. LAUREL, N.J. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - College
Fanz Sports Network, the world's largest online college sports
community launched by ESPN
founder Bill Rasmussen is partnering with the colleges of the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) to present the College
Fanz NAIA Football Game of the Week.
Traveling across America in the colorful College Fanz Van, College
Fanz will produce live streaming video webcasts of selected NAIA
college football games. The Fanz Van will be manned by Jason
Dannelly, director of college relations for College Fanz and a
crew of talented broadcasters and technicians stopping at college
campuses around the country.
The debut of the College Fanz NAIA Football Game of the Week is
Saturday, August 29th, with the annual First Down Classic in
Platte City, Missouri, a doubleheader featuring Avila University vs.
Doane College in the first game and McKendree University vs. Ottawa
University in the second.
Thursday, September 3rd, the Fanz Van travels to Joliet, Illinois
for the Saint Xavier vs. St. Francis gridiron contest, and on Saturday,
September 5th, to Sioux Falls, South Dakota for the Nebraska Wesleyan
vs. Sioux Falls tilt.
Additional games are still being added to the schedule, culminating with
the NAIA Playoffs in November and December.
"The opportunity for us to meet fanz in person on campuses around the
country, share their enthusiasm and passion for their colleges, bring
our cameras and microphones into their games and bring a live webcast to
fanz around the world, represents a significant advance for not just
fanz of the NAIA but for fanz of all college sports," said Rasmussen,
the innovator behind ESPN and founding partner of College Fanz.
"The NAIA is proud to work with Bill Rasmussen and College Fanz
on the College Fanz NAIA Football Game of the Week," said Jim
Carr, NAIA President and CEO. "College Fanz supports our mission
to advance character-driven intercollegiate athletics and offers a
tremendous platform to tell the NAIA story. Together we are committed to
sharing that passion with fans around the world."
Launched September 7, 2007, 28 years to the day that Rasmussen's ESPN
dream went on the air for the first time, College Fanz is the
world's largest online college sports community, with students, alumni,
and other fanz of college sports. College Fanz boasts over 22,000
web pages devoted to more than 1,450 colleges and universities competing
in over 225,000 NCAA and NAIA athletic events. Additional information is
available at http://www.CollegeFanz.com.
Media Contacts:
Jim DeLorenzo (for College Fanz)
215-564-1122
jdelorenzo@collegefanz.com
or
Staci
Schottman (for NAIA)
816-595-8116
sschottman@naia.org
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