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BGSU alumnus Jay Crawford, co-host of ESPN's "Cold Pizza," will be on campus Friday (April 29) as part of the Building Dreams campaign kickoff.

Building Dreams campaign kicks off with gala, 'Cold Pizza' host

The monthlong run-up to Building Dreams: The Centennial Campaign for Bowling Green State University culminates this week with the campaign gala on Saturday (April 30).

The campaign is a multiyear fund-raising effort to promote student success and achievement, and faculty and staff leadership, and to provide the necessary facilities for BGSU to attain its dreams and goals.

The masters of ceremony for the evening will be former BGSU Trustee Leon Bibb, a news anchor for WEWS-TV5 in Cleveland, and Scott Clark, sports director and anchor at WABC-TV’s Eyewitness News in New York. Both are BGSU alumni.

About 350 people are expected to attend the festive event, where they will be entertained by University choral groups, vocalists and instrumentalists. The evening will include selections from the BGSU Theatre production of “Children of Eden” and a student-made “Building Dreams” video.

Dinner, dancing and recognition of some of the University’s donors will round out the evening.

On Friday (April 29), the campus community is invited to a campaign kickoff event at 2 p.m. in the Falcon’s Nest in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. BGSU alumnus Jay Crawford, co-host of ESPN’s "Cold Pizza," will relate his experiences as a student at the University and how they prepared him for a career in sports broadcasting. A question-and-answer period will follow his talk, and there will be plenty of free pizza.

A Sandusky native and 1987 BGSU graduate, Crawford joined ESPN to co-host "Cold Pizza." The two-hour program, launched in 2003, is a unique blend of sports, lifestyle features and pop culture.

Crawford also hosts a 30-minute, daily edition of "1st and 10" with commentators Woody Paige and Skip Bayless for the cable sports network.

Crawford earned a bachelor's degree in radio, television and film at BGSU. The winner of four regional Emmy Awards and the Best Sportscaster Kentucky AP Award, he has been a Children's Miracle Network host and Special Olympics volunteer.

Also this week, the second annual Bob and Karen Sebo Lecture will be given by entrepreneur Francis (Frank) X. Maguire. (See related story.)

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