'BACHELOR' TO 'BASSCENTER'.Byline: Keith Lair Staff Writer Byron Velvick Byron Paul Velvick (b. June 14, 1964 in Boulder City, Nevada) was the bachelor in Season 6 of the United States television show The Bachelor. He has been a professional bass fisherman for the past 13 years. He graduated from UC Irvine with a degree in English. went fishing for a wife on the television show ``The Bachelor.'' Now, the 40-year-old bass pro is fishing for television viewers on ``BassCenter.'' Velvick, who has won two WON BASS U.S. Opens at Lake Mead, will join anchor John Kernan as the analyst for BassCenter, a weekly bass-fishing news show that will bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network 2's Saturday morning angling programming. The show will cover the news of the sport for that week, including all forms of tournaments, profiles, technology, human interest stories and bass fishing tips. It will air at 4 and 7 a.m. with the first airing on Jan. 1. Saltwater Sunday, a 3 hour, 3 minute block on saltwater fishing, will begin at 4 a.m. on Jan. 2. In between BassCenter will be six shows, including Loudmouth Bass, Jimmy Houston Outdoors, The Fishin' Hole with Jerry McKinnis, Schooled by Denny Brauer, Bassmaster University, Bass Tech and Bassmaster Classics. Velvick, who grew up in California and attended UC Irvine, now shares his time between Boulder City, Nev., and a new home in Tampa, Fla., reeled in Mary Delgado of Tampa in The Bachelor. The pair are still dating and are eyeing marriage. Velvick thinks his appearance on the widely popular ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. reality program can reel viewers into BassCenter. ``It's a great opportunity to help expand bass fishing,'' Velvick said. But it has changed his outlook, too. ``I know when I get off the lake, I won't be pulling my boat in right away,'' he said. ``I'm going to watch the weigh-ins and talk to other anglers. Looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. stories. I know I will have a full load each Saturday.'' Velvick won the U.S. Open in 1990 and '96. He won the BASS 2000 California Invitational at Clear Lake, and is beginning to make inroads inroads Noun, pl make inroads into to start affecting or reducing: my gambling has made great inroads into my savings inroads npl to make inroads into [+ on the BASS circuit. He said being on The Bachelor helped prepare him for his newest gig. ``I became comfortable,'' he says of The Bachelor's camera crews. ``They're following you for 24 hours Adv. 1. for 24 hours - without stopping; "she worked around the clock" around the clock, round the clock . You just keep going.'' Coordinating producer Dan Bowen said Velvick was a natural to do BassCenter. ``You had the feeling he is comfortable in front of the camera,'' Bowen said. Keith Lair, (626) 962-8811 keith.lair(at)sgvn.com |
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