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CBS Sports to Air NCAA Winter Seasonal Show on April 23

For Immediate Release

Tuesday, April 19, 2005
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Chris Farrow
Manager of Broadcasting
317/917-6832



INDIANAPOLIS---For the third consecutive year, all 88 NCAA championships will receive television exposure, including 15 winter championships to be featured in a one-hour special.

"CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA” will air at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time/10:00 a.m. Pacific time Saturday, April 23, on CBS Sports.  Highlights and stories from fencing, hockey, indoor track & field, rifle, skiing, swimming & diving and wrestling will be featured in the program.

Some of the student-athlete stories to be featured in the program include:

  • Kenyon College (OH) men’s swimming dynasty;
  • Southwest Baptist University (MO) is back at the championship a year after the team was in van crash;
  • Anthony Campbell, a 26-year-old freshman on the track team at New Jersey City University; and
  • Amy Cochran, a skier at Vermont and her family's Olympic ties.

Through the NCAA-CBS 11-year bundled rights agreement, CBS Sports has aired seven seasonal shows from the three NCAA sports seasons (fall, winter, spring) over the last three years.  The seasonal shows typically feature highlights and unique NCAA student-athlete stories from the Division II and III championships.

Veteran CBS Sports broadcaster Bonnie Bernstein will host the winter seasonal show from St. Louis, Missouri.  Bernstein has hosted all eight seasonal shows. 

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