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ESPN’s Jay Crawford at BGSU April 29 BOWLING GREEN .O.— ESPN’s Jay Crawford, co-host of “Cold Pizza,” will emcee the student kick-off event for Building Dreams:
The Centennial Campaign for Bowling Green State University on April 29.
BGSU mascots Frieda and Freddie Falcon and the University cheerleaders will be on hand to greet Crawford, who is scheduled
to speak at 2 p.m. that Friday in the Falcon’s Nest of the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. He will talk about his experiences
as a student at BGSU and how they prepared him for a career in sports broadcasting.
A question-and-answer period will follow his talk. There also will be plenty of free, hot pizza and cold drinks for the audience.
A Sandusky native and 1987 graduate of BGSU, 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. The BGSU alumnus also hosts a 30-minute, daily edition
of “1st and 10” with commentators Woody Paige and Skip Bayless for the cable sports network.
Before going to ESPN, Crawford spent five years as sports director for WFTS-TV in Tampa, Fla., where he covered the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl championship in 2003. The previous five years he was sports director for WBNS-TV in Columbus.
A graduate of Perkins High School in Sandusky, Crawford earned a bachelor’s degree in radio, television and film at BGSU.
He began his career in 1987 at WYMT-TV in Lexington, Ky., and later worked at WYUN-TV in Charleston, W. Va., and WTIC-TV in
Hartford, Conn.
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.
(Posted April 20, 2005 )
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