The debut of "College Fanz Game Day" comes hot on the heels of the highly-successful inaugural season of the "College Fanz NAIA Football Game of the Week" broadcasts, where people in over 100 countries watched American small college football games.
Grand Island, Nebraska –
College Fanz™ Sports Network, the world's largest online college sports community launched by ESPN Founder Bill Rasmussen, tips off their live broadcasts of college basketball this Saturday, December 12th with a men's and women's basketball doubleheader, as the MidAmerica Nazarene Pioneers travel to Liberty, Missouri to face the William Jewell College Cardinals.
The premiere of
"College Fanz Game Day" basketball features one of the most intense hoops rivalries in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), with both colleges located in the Kansas City Metro area and competing in the Heart of America Conference.
The women's basketball game begins at 5:30 p.m. Central / 6:30 p.m. Eastern live on CollegeFanz.com, followed by the men's basketball game at approximately 7:30 p.m. Central / 8:30 p.m. Eastern.
The debut of "College Fanz Game Day" comes hot on the heels of the highly-successful inaugural season of the "College Fanz NAIA Football Game of the Week" broadcasts, where people in over 100 countries watched American small college football games. "College Fanz Game Day" coverage of college basketball expands the broadcast programs available on the network, and enhances the network's considerable offerings including America's College Scoreboard™ and the community-generated photos, videos and blogs.
Each state-of-the-art "College Fanz Game Day" broadcast includes full multiple-camera production, graphics, expert broadcasters, features and interviews with coaches, players, and college officials.
In addition, College Fanz features video stream broadcasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week with programming that includes the "College Fanz Report," as well as highlights and features covering a wide-range of college sports, student-athletes, coaches, rivalries, mascots, marching bands, fanz and alumni. All College Fanz broadcasts are available at http://www.collegefanz.com/
Each "College Fanz Game Day" broadcast utilizes the talents of a select number of college students actively participating in production. Qualified students from the communications, business and sports management departments (among others) are selected to act as interns with the College Fanz broadcast team for the day.
Additional internship opportunities are available through College Fanz, with information available at
http://www.CollegeFanz.com/internshipinfo.jspa.
The College Fanz Scholarship Fund has been established to provide contributions to college and university athletic department funds in recognition of the College Fanz "Outstanding Player of the Game." The College Fanz Scholarship Fund is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit corporation. The fund accepts individual donations, and donors may select merchandise for their donation in the College Fanz Store.
In addition, organizations who set up their own
Webstorz account will share the proceeds with their organization, the College Fanz Scholarship Fund and the NAIA.
About College Fanz:Launched September 7, 2007, 28 years to the day that Bill Rasmussen's ESPN dream went on the air for the first time, College Fanz Sports Network is the world's largest online college sports community, with students, alumni, and other fanz of college sports. College Fanz boasts over 22,000 web pages devoted to more than 1,450 colleges and universities competing in over 225,000 NCAA and NAIA athletic events. Additional information is available at
www.collegefanz.com.