'FLORIDA SPORTS PROFILES' Premieres With the Legendary Don Shula, Tuesday, July 4, 7 p.m. ET; Griese, Marino and Others Offer Insight and Perspective In Exclusive Interviews.Sports Editors/TV & NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga Writers ORLANDO, Fla.--(BW SportsWire)--June 27, 2000 FLORIDA SPORTS PROFILES, a new series from Sunshine Network, Florida's leading regional sports network In the United States of America, a Regional Sports Network, or RSN, is a cable television station that presents sports programming to a local market. The most important programming on an RSN consists of live broadcasts of professional and college sporting events, as those games , premieres this weekend with a profile of former Miami Dolphins and Hall of Fame head coach Don Shula Donald Francis Shula (born January 4, 1930 in Grand River, Ohio) is a former professional football coach for the National Football League. He is best known as coach of the Miami Dolphins, the team he led to two Super Bowl victories, and to the NFL's only undefeated Perfect Season . A new monthly television series focusing on individuals who have had a significant impact on Florida sports over the years, FLORIDA SPORTS PROFILES is produced by Sunshine Network and hosted by Paul Kennedy
Paul Kennedy CBE (born 1945) is a British historian specializing in international relations and grand strategy. . Continuing its commitment to provide coverage of more local, Florida-based sports, Sunshine Network is devoting substantial production resources and facilities to the creation of this new series. FLORIDA SPORTS PROFILES: DON SHULA premieres Tuesday, July 4, at 7 p.m. and offers viewers a rare and insightful look at the man who became synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as perfection during his long reign as head coach of the Miami Dolphins. Encore presentations of the one-hour program are scheduled for July 10, 11 a.m.; July 13, at 9 p.m.; July 20, at midnight; July 21, at 1 p.m.; July 24, at 3 p.m.; July 27, at 6 p.m. and 12:30 a.m.; and July 30, at 8 p.m. The show will be seen statewide in over 5.2 million homes on Sunshine Network. Included in the show are recent provocative interviews with the man himself and interviews with a number of other notable figures associated with Shula including: Dan Marino, Bob Griese Robert Allen Griese (born February 3, 1945 in Evansville, Indiana) is a former American football quarterback who earned All-American honors with the Purdue Boilermakers before being drafted in 1967 by the American Football League's Miami Dolphins. , Earl Morrall Earl Edwin Morrall (born May 17, 1934 in Muskegon, Michigan) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. Morrall, who also occasionally punted, lasted 21 seasons in the National Football League as both a starter and reserve. , Dave Wannstedt, Jimmy Cefalo, Joe Rose, Mercury Morris, Nat Moore, Jim Kiick, Mike Shula, David Shula, Richmond Webb, Nick Buoniconti and Jim Mandich. These individuals and others offer their personal observations of Coach Shula resulting in an intimate portrait of the winningest coach in NFL history. Sunshine Network is Florida's largest and leading regional sports network and, with no national sports network affiliation, is the state's only sports network devoting its entire schedule to local programming. With over 5.2 million homes and more than 20 teams/properties under contract, Sunshine Network is the Florida sports fans' first and only source for comprehensive coverage of sports in the Sunshine State. For further information on Sunshine Network, visit the network's website at www.sunshinenetwork.com Photos/Logos Available On Request |
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