Creator and Host of the six-time Emmy Award winning “Sport Science” and author of the New York Times Best Seller “The Perfection Point”, John Brenkus, and thirteen-time Pro Bowl, two-time Super Bowl Champion and Super Bowl Mvp, Ray Lewis, have announced that the Ray Of Hope Foundation will be holding a kick-off fundraising event on Monday, September 18th at SignatureFD Headquarters in Atlanta, Ga.
The financial planning corporation, SignatureFD and SignaturePRO, whose purpose is to help empower athletes to live with purpose and confidence in their relationships and actions, has partnered up with the Ray of Hope Foundation for the event.
Longtime friends Brenkus and Lewis bonded over one common principle: sending positive energy to those in need. It all started one day when Brenkus asked Lewis to record a short encouraging video for a friend who was fighting stage 4 brain cancer. The very next day, a friend of Brenkus...
The financial planning corporation, SignatureFD and SignaturePRO, whose purpose is to help empower athletes to live with purpose and confidence in their relationships and actions, has partnered up with the Ray of Hope Foundation for the event.
Longtime friends Brenkus and Lewis bonded over one common principle: sending positive energy to those in need. It all started one day when Brenkus asked Lewis to record a short encouraging video for a friend who was fighting stage 4 brain cancer. The very next day, a friend of Brenkus...
- 9/18/2017
- Look to the Stars
The world of sports is one of The Onion’s favorite targets, and with its latest web series, the satirical publication is firing another salvo in that direction. It has launched Sportology, a series that mocks Espn’s over-the-top Sport Science segment.
In Sport Science, a group of researchers hired by Espn explore and define the amazing feats performed by the world’s best athletes. Individual episodes, for example, may attempt to empirically explain Kyrie Irving’s quick first step or Marshawn Lynch’s dominant brand of power football.
The Onion version of this concept applies the Sport Science method to ridiculous scenarios that are only barely sports-related. How, the first episode asks, do Olympic archers resist the urge to turn their bows a few degrees to side and loose their arrows upon helpless spectators? You have probably never asked that question, but Sportology has the answer. Even if you've...
In Sport Science, a group of researchers hired by Espn explore and define the amazing feats performed by the world’s best athletes. Individual episodes, for example, may attempt to empirically explain Kyrie Irving’s quick first step or Marshawn Lynch’s dominant brand of power football.
The Onion version of this concept applies the Sport Science method to ridiculous scenarios that are only barely sports-related. How, the first episode asks, do Olympic archers resist the urge to turn their bows a few degrees to side and loose their arrows upon helpless spectators? You have probably never asked that question, but Sportology has the answer. Even if you've...
- 8/12/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Amid the body shaming controversy surrounding some of their fellow Olympic competitors, a few female Team U.S.A. members are sharing how they learned to embrace their athletic shapes. Olympic hammer thrower Amber Campbell is in peak physical condition, she told the Indy Star, but by her measurements - 5'7" and 200 lbs. - she could be considered obese. "I'll never be 135 lbs. at 5-foot-7," said Campbell. "If I were 135 lbs., I couldn't throw a hammer. It's not about being wispy and thin. To be a good athlete, you have to be strong." And strong she is. Now in her third Olympics,...
- 8/12/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
Amid the body shaming controversy surrounding some of their fellow Olympic competitors, a few female Team U.S.A. members are sharing how they learned to embrace their athletic shapes. Olympic hammer thrower Amber Campbell is in peak physical condition, she told the Indy Star, but by her measurements - 5'7" and 200 lbs. - she could be considered obese. "I'll never be 135 lbs. at 5-foot-7," said Campbell. "If I were 135 lbs., I couldn't throw a hammer. It's not about being wispy and thin. To be a good athlete, you have to be strong." And strong she is. Now in her third Olympics,...
- 8/12/2016
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
Many a heated debate has raged over who is the greatest athlete of all time. Is it Michael Jordan? Muhammad Ali? Wayne Gretzky? Perhaps soccer great Pelé? Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk? The question goes from the barroom to the laboratory on Sunday with Espn Sport Science: Greatest Athlete of All Time (March 10 at 3:30/2:30c on Espn).
"Previously, people would identify the best player or the person who had the biggest impact on their sport," says host John Brenkus, whose Sport Science segments air on SportsCenter and in periodic specials on the network. "What we're analyzing are categories like quickness, agility, speed, strength, power, endurance, durability, performance under pressure. We're looking for the real athlete, not just the player."
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"Previously, people would identify the best player or the person who had the biggest impact on their sport," says host John Brenkus, whose Sport Science segments air on SportsCenter and in periodic specials on the network. "What we're analyzing are categories like quickness, agility, speed, strength, power, endurance, durability, performance under pressure. We're looking for the real athlete, not just the player."
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- 3/8/2013
- by Rich Sands
- TVGuide - Breaking News
John Brenkus and Mickey Stern's Base Prods. has become the latest U.S. independent production company in the unscripted TV space to be acquired by a large European company. UK’s Tinopolis Group has bought Base, which has offfices in Washington, DC and Los Angeles, as well as its catalog that includes such programs as Sport Science, Fight Science, Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files and Police Pov. The pricetag is said to be around $75 million, a little less than the $95-$100 million Tinopolis recently paid for another U.S. independent company, A. Smith and Co. Both deals have a very similar structure. Like A. Smith, Base will keep its independence, continuing operations from in its facilities in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, with Brenkus and Stern signing multi-year contracts to stay at the helm of the company. In addition, the Base principals will become significant shareholders and members of the Tinopolis Group management team.
- 8/8/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Los Angeles — It's become a proud athletic tradition: Winning "Dancing With the Stars."
When Hines Ward took home the mirrorball trophy on the hit show Tuesday, he joined its winningest group of alumni: Athletes. Professional athletes have taken the "Dancing" title six times in the past 12 seasons.
Since the show premiered stateside in 2005, three Olympians, two football stars and one race-car driver have been named "Dancing" champs. Three other NFL stars and an Olympic skater finished the popular show in second place.
Ward, a Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and former Super Bowl most valuable player, credits his professional dance partner, Kym Johnson, with their dance victory. He plans to keep his new mirrorball right next to his Super Bowl trophy.
"It's special," the 35-year-old said, glittery trophy in hand. "With football, it takes all 53 guys. With this mirrorball, it was just Kym and I together in the studio putting in the hours.
When Hines Ward took home the mirrorball trophy on the hit show Tuesday, he joined its winningest group of alumni: Athletes. Professional athletes have taken the "Dancing" title six times in the past 12 seasons.
Since the show premiered stateside in 2005, three Olympians, two football stars and one race-car driver have been named "Dancing" champs. Three other NFL stars and an Olympic skater finished the popular show in second place.
Ward, a Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver and former Super Bowl most valuable player, credits his professional dance partner, Kym Johnson, with their dance victory. He plans to keep his new mirrorball right next to his Super Bowl trophy.
"It's special," the 35-year-old said, glittery trophy in hand. "With football, it takes all 53 guys. With this mirrorball, it was just Kym and I together in the studio putting in the hours.
- 5/25/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Some of America’s favorite stars as seen on American Idol, The Real World, Survivor, The Amazing Race, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and top shows from Food Network, Cooking Channel and Bravo have been added to the previously announced lineup of stars, which include Nick Cannon, Adrianne Curry, Christopher Knight, DeAnna Pappas, Audrina Patridge, Eric Roberts and Karina Smirnoff for the inaugural Reality Rocks Expo, the ultimate reality TV Experience, about the fans, for the fans and by the fans. The Reality Rocks Expo will feature two jam-packed days filled with previews of brand new television shows, meet & greets with everyone’s favorite reality TV stars, insightful panel discussions as well as a special VIP Awards program for the Reality Rocks Fan Awards honoring fans’ favorite talent and programs when the expo comes to the Los Angeles Convention Center April 9-10, 2011. For an updated list of scheduled events and to...
- 3/10/2011
- by [email protected] (realitytvnews)
The upcoming Super Bowl in Miami between the Saints and the Colts will be minus one Man Crunch ad and plus one anti-abortion ad. But Espn will feature Sport Science Special to kicks off the Big Game Weekend. Super Bowl weekend gets started on Espn with a 30-minute Sport Science special featuring NFL players and four football-based experiments. In addition to 30-minute Sport Science specials, Espn runs Sport Science-branded segments in its highest-profile productions, including signature series such as SportsCenter, College GameDay, the Winter X Games and other programs tied to top sporting events. Host John Brenkus will also make special appearances on Espn programming to discuss timely Sport Science segments. The Super Bowl pre game show airs...
- 2/1/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Super Bowl weekend gets started on Espn with a 30-minute Sport Science special featuring NFL players and four football-based experiments. The show airs Friday, Feb 5, at 7 p.m. Et on Espn. Santonio Holmes of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Marshawn Lynch of the Buffalo Bills and Matt Willig, who recently retired from the NFL will be featured. Unscripted, the award-winning Sport Science hosted by John Brenkus brings the world.s top professional athletes together with cutting-edge technology in scientific facilities to test the limits of human athletic abilities and challenge popular assumptions about athletes. Performed in the Sport Science Laboratory, led by Dr. Cindy Bir of Wayne State University and Brenkus, the special is comprised of these experiments: Two...
- 1/28/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
The summer Olympics leads the field of nominees for the 30th annual Sports Emmy Awards.
NBC's coverage of the Beijing games landed 12 nominations, followed by Espn's program "Outside the Lines" with nine.
Additionally, Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics and the spearheader of the Olympics TV broadcasts, will receive this year's lifetime achievement award.
The Sports Emmys will be handed out April 27 during a ceremony held at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Sports-themed cable network Espn was the most nominated outlet with 42 noms, followed by Olympics-boosted NBC with 28 and Fox and HBO with 18 each.
Car racing proved very popular with Emmy voters with "Espn Nascar" and "Nascar on Fox" each scoring five nominations, tied with Fsn's "Sport Science."
Ebersol, who has headed NBC Sport for 20 years, has produced seven of the top 10 most-watched events of all time,...
NBC's coverage of the Beijing games landed 12 nominations, followed by Espn's program "Outside the Lines" with nine.
Additionally, Dick Ebersol, chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics and the spearheader of the Olympics TV broadcasts, will receive this year's lifetime achievement award.
The Sports Emmys will be handed out April 27 during a ceremony held at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Sports-themed cable network Espn was the most nominated outlet with 42 noms, followed by Olympics-boosted NBC with 28 and Fox and HBO with 18 each.
Car racing proved very popular with Emmy voters with "Espn Nascar" and "Nascar on Fox" each scoring five nominations, tied with Fsn's "Sport Science."
Ebersol, who has headed NBC Sport for 20 years, has produced seven of the top 10 most-watched events of all time,...
- 4/2/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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