Basketball Great John Salley to Appear on the Weather Channel; Four Time World Champ and Best Damn Sports Show Co-Host to Appear On TWC's Evening Edition.ATLANTA -- John Salley John Thomas "Spider" Salley (born May 16, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA, actor and talk show host. He is a 1988 graduate of Georgia Tech's College of Management and a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. , the first man to win an NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= title with three different teams and current co-host of Fox Sports Network's Best Damn Sports Show Period, will be taking on a new challenge Friday night when he joins The Weather Channel's Evening Edition team from 10-11pm ET. During his appearance on Evening Edition, John will receive forecasting tips from storm tracker Jim Cantore James M. Cantore (born February 16, 1964 in White River Junction, Vermont) is an American meteorologist. He is best known for his lengthy tenure as an on-air personality for The Weather Channel. , make his first appearance in front of a weather map and try his hand at the The Weather Channel "green screen," paying special attention to the weather in Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , the cities where he won his four NBA titles. John will also be asked to offer his outlook on the NBA finals The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association. The team winning the Eastern Conference Finals earns one of the two berths in the championship round, with the other going to the team that wins the Western Conference Finals. and to share some of his opinions on the world of sports. During John's distinguished NBA career, he earned a reputation as one of the smartest and most interesting athletes in sports and was named the best interview in basketball by the Associated Press three times. Since then, he has made numerous television appearances as a recurring guest on Politically Incorrect and The Late, Late Show. John has had success in movies with roles in such films as Bad Boys and Bad Boys II with Martin Lawrence and Will Smith and Eddie with Whoopi Goldberg. John's skills as a communicator have made him a sought after motivational speaker. He has spoken for corporate groups from companies such as Chrysler and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and to community organizations including Pediatric Aids pediatric AIDS AIDS acquired HIV perinatally or by 'vertical'–maternal-infant transmission; children with PAIDS may become symptomatic–lymphoid interstitial pneumonia, encephalopathy, recurrent bacterial infection, Candida Foundation and the Multiple Sclerosis Society. About The Weather Channel: The Weather Channel, a 24-hour weather network, is seen in 90 million U.S. households. Its Web site, weather.com, is consistently ranked the 15th most popular by Nielsen//Net Ratings. The Weather Channel also operates Weatherscan, a 24-hour all-local weather network available in 22 million homes; The Weather Channel Radio Network; The Weather Channel Newspaper Services and is the leading weather information provider for emerging technologies. The Weather Channel is owned by Landmark Communications, Inc., a Norfolk, VA-based, privately held media company. |
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