Date Posted: 7 January 2010
ESPN REGIONAL TELEVISION & ST. PETERSBURG BOWL
ANNOUNCE TICKETS ON SALE NOW
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – ESPN Regional Television announces the sale of tickets for the second annual St. Petersburg Bowl game. Individual tickets are available for $30 through Ticketmaster.com and at the Tropicana Field box office.
The second annual St. Petersburg Bowl, featuring a team from the BIG EAST Conference against a team from Conference USA, will be played Dec. 19 at Tropicana Field. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. ET. The game will be nationally televised on ESPN.
“ESPN is excited to bring the St. Petersburg Bowl and college football back to this area and to the local fans,” said Brett Dulaney, executive director of the St. Petersburg Bowl. “We believe our bowl game is a great experience for residents throughout the Bay area and beyond, as well as for the teams, coaches and staffs who participate.”
Last year the game welcomed the teams from University of South Florida and University of Memphis, as well as fans and alumni who enjoyed the beaches, entertainment and local restaurants in the Bay area.
Throughout the college football season, fans can visit the Bowl’s official Web site, www.stpetersburgbowl.com, to keep track of what teams are predicted to potentially face off in the 2009 St. Petersburg Bowl.
About ESPN Regional Television/Event Ownership
The nation’s largest syndicator of collegiate sports programming, ESPN Regional Television (ERT) annually produces more than 1,000 telecasts of sporting events. Programming includes football, basketball, NCAA events, golf and NHRA events accounting for more than 2,200 live and/or original hours of programming. In addition to event ownership, ERT is the production headquarters for ESPNU, the 24-hour college sports network; syndication rights-holder and producer of national, regional and local shows for college conferences (e.g. – SEC, BIG EAST, Big 12, Mid-American, Sun Belt, WAC).
ESPN Regional Television markets and/or owns several sporting events, including collegiate football events: the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl (Fort Worth, Texas); MAACO Bowl Las Vegas; New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque); Papajohns.com Bowl (Birmingham, Ala.); Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl (Honolulu); St. Petersburg Bowl; the MEAC/SWAC Challenge presented by Disney (Orlando, Fla.); and The Home Depot ESPNU College Football Awards; collegiate basketball events: the 76 Classic (Anaheim, Calif.); Charleston Classic (S.C.); ESPNU Road to the Championship (Women; San Antonio); Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic (Honolulu); Old Spice Classic (Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla.); O’Reilly Auto Parts Puerto Rico Tip-Off (San Juan); SEC/BIG EAST Invitational; All-College Classic (Oklahoma City) and BracketBusters; as well as the ESPN National Golf Challenge presented by Callaway. For more information, visit ESPNPlus.com.
Media contacts:
Brock Communications contact: Megan Danner at (813) 961-8388 or megan@brockcomm.com.
ESPN contact: Jenny Zimmerman, at (407) 566-2213 or jennifer.j.zimmerman@espn.com.
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