TV and Sports Celebrities Face Off in 8th Annual Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic to Raise Money for Cancer Research.Sports Editors/Lifestyle Writers CARY, N.C.--(BW SportsWire)--Aug. 23, 2001 Survivor II winner Tina Wesson survived the Outback, but is she any match against Charles Barkley, Paul Hornung, Bill Goldberg and Lawrence Taylor? Wesson, Barkley, Hornung, Goldberg and Taylor are among 100 celebrities participating in the 2001 Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic Sunday August 26 at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary, N.C. The annual golf tournament, which raised $1.85 million last year, is the largest fundraiser for The V Foundation for Cancer Research. The Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic was started by the late Jim Valvano, the legendary N.C. State University basketball coach who took his underdog team to victory in the 1983 NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship. Valvano also had an illustrious broadcast career with ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network prior to succumbing to cancer in 1993. Celebrities scheduled to play in this year's event include Dominic Chianese (The Soprano's), Jack Ford (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. , Good Morning America Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. The show was adapted from The Morning Exchange, a morning show created by and airing on the ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, and was launched nationally as ), Mike Krzyzewski (Duke University Basketball coach), Meadowlark Lemon (Harlem Globetrotters), musician Edwin McCain, Antonio Pettigrew (Olympic 4x400 Relay gold medalist), Richard Roundtree (actor, "Shaft"), Darius Rucker (Hootie & the Blowfish A secret key cryptography method that uses a variable length key from 32 to 448 bits long. It uses the block cipher method, which breaks the text into 64-bit blocks before encrypting them. ), Dick Vitale (ESPN/ABC analyst), and Wendy Gebauer-Palladino (WUSA WUSA Women's United Soccer Association WUSA Windows Update Standalone Installer analyst and member of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team that won the 1991 World Cup). Celebrities donate their time to participate in the Classic. For a complete list, visit www.golfclassic.org. The Classic weekend starts with a Pairings Party, 7:30 p.m. Friday to determine teams. The invitation-only V-Gala is Saturday night. On Sunday, the Classic gates open at 8:30 a.m. with a shotgun start at 9:30 a.m. Immediately following the Classic is the Million Dollar Shootout where celebrities attempt a hole-in-one to win $1 million for the V Foundation. ESPN Classic will air a live special from the Classic Aug. 26 noon to 3 p.m. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. Corporate sponsors include PBM PBM - play by mail. See play by electronic mail. Graphics, SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. , Jillian's, Nortel and Midway Airlines. About the Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic Created in 1993, the Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic is the single largest fundraiser for The V Foundation for Cancer Research. In seven years, the Classic has raised nearly $7 million for cancer research. Each year, more than 1,200 volunteers, 75 sponsors and nearly 100 celebrities team up for the Classic and related events. For more information on the Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic or an updated list of celebrities visit their Web site at www.golfclassic.org . |
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