Grand Slam with Wade Boggs and Addictive Fishing Host, Blair Wiggins Featured on the FOX Sports Network on Sunday, September 3.LUTZ, Fla. -- Addictive Fishing today announced that baseball legend Wade Boggs joins Captain Blair Wiggins, host of Addictive Fishing, on FOX Sports Net (FSN (Full-Service Network) A communications network that provides shopping, movies on demand and access to databases and a variety of interactive services. ) Sunday, September 3, at noon eastern time. The show features highlights of an exciting, action-packed day fishing for redfish redfish or rosefish or ocean perch Commercially important food fish (Sebastes marinus) of the scorpion fish family (Scorpaenidae), found in the Atlantic along European and North American coasts. on Florida's Space Coast. For Wiggins, spending the day fishing with his friend, Boggs, was an extra-special treat. Wiggins, usually on the front of the boat fishing, took to poling this time. His Hall-of-Famer friend was looking to set another lifetime record...the biggest redfish of his life! For more than 30 years Wiggins has been addicted to fishing. A Florida native, he served in the Air force, obtained his bachelor's degree in aeronautics, and worked on the space shuttle in Cocoa Beach, his hometown. In l993, he formed his Addictive Fishing guide service, teaming with childhood friend, Producer Kevin McCabe to create an innovative, energy-filled format for what has become a half-hour saltwater fishing show credited with revolutionizing outdoor sports programming. Boggs, elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, was an all-star third baseman for the Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox are a member and currently champions of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball’s American League. From to the present, the Red Sox have played in Fenway Park. for l0 years. He later played for the Yankees, and ended his career in Tampa Bay, where he now lives. Boggs finished his career with a lifetime .328 batting average and 3,010 hits. He is the only 20th Century player with seven straight 200-hit seasons, and was American League batting champion five times. He reached base in 80 percent of the games in which he played. Boggs and Blair met through the Pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. Cancer Foundation (PCF PCF - A simply typed, functional language. ["Fully Abstract Translations Between Functional Languages", J. Riecke, 18th POPL, pp. 245-254 (1991)]. ["LCF Considered as a Programming Language", Theor CS 5:223, 1977]. ), where both are involved in the Ninth Annual Mercury Grand Slam Celebrity Fishing Tournament to be held November 10-12, 2006 at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort in St. Petersburg. Celebrity host Boggs will join Blair and other celebrities and avid fishermen in their quest to hit a grand slam for snook snook: see bass, fish. snook Any of about eight species (genus Centropomus) of tropical marine fishes that are long and silvery and have two dorsal fins, a long head, and a large mouth with a projecting lower jaw. , redfish and trout, while raising money to help "Reel In The Cure" for childhood cancer. The Pediatric Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit, Tampa-based charity, dedicated to funding research to eliminate childhood cancer worldwide. The Foundation has granted more than $2.4 million to researchers at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital in Tampa, All Children's Research Institute in St. Petersburg, the University of Florida University of Florida is the third-largest university in the United States, with 50,912 students (as of Fall 2006) and has the eighth-largest budget (nearly $1.9 billion per year). UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 150 research centers and institutes. in Gainesville, the University of Miami This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University. The University of Miami (also known as Miami of Florida,[2] UM,[3] or just The U , School of Medicine, and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. Addictive Fishing can currently be seen on FOX Sports Net on Sundays at 12 noon. For more information, visit http://www.addictivefishing.com. |
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