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April 15, 2010
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – ESPN Regional Television announced today that the 2010-11 Papajohns.com Bowl will be played Jan. 8 at Legion Field.
The game, in its fifth year, will feature a team from the BIG EAST Conference against a team from the Southeastern Conference and will be televised nationally at noon ET on ESPN.
“We are excited about playing on a Saturday as we have done in three of our four previous games,” said Mark Meadows, executive director, Papajohns.com Bowl. “Saturdays have always been popular with fans, giving families an opportunity to attend the game together. Additionally, as the only bowl game televised on January 8th, more national attention will be focused on the Papajohns.com Bowl and Birmingham.
The 2009-10 Papajohns.com Bowl attracted a record crowd of 45,254 at Legion Field on Jan. 2, as Connecticut defeated South Carolina, 20-7. The BIG EAST boasts a 4-0 record in the Papajohns.com Bowl.
The Papajohns.com Bowl is an NCAA-certified college football game operated by ESPN Regional Television, which operates these other bowl games: the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl St. Petersburg, Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, MAACO Bowl Las Vegas, New Mexico Bowl, Sheraton Hawaii Bowl and Texas Bowl.
Tickets to the 2010-11 Papajohns.com Bowl will go on sale Sept. 1. For more information, visit the bowl’s official Web site: http://www.papajohnsbowl.com.
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, WAC).
ESPN Regional Television markets and/or owns several sporting events, including collegiate football events: the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl St. Petersburg; 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); Texas Bowl (Houston); 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.); Cancun Governor’s Cup; Charleston Classic (S.C.); DIRECTV SEC/BIG EAST Invitational; 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); SONIC All-College Basketball Classic (Oklahoma City) and BracketBusters; as well as the new ESPNU Warrior Classic (Lacrosse) and the ESPN National Golf Challenge presented by Callaway. For more information, visit ESPNPlus.com.
About Papa John’s
Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, Papa John’s International, Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZA), is the world’s third largest pizza company. For nine of the last 10 years, consumers have rated Papa John’s No. 1 in customer satisfaction among all national pizza chains in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Papa John’s also was honored by Restaurants & Institutions Magazine (R&I) with the 2009 Gold Award for Consumers’ Choice in Chains in the pizza segment and was named 2007 Pizza Today Chain of the Year. For more information about the company or to order pizza online, visit Papa John’s at www.papajohns.com.
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Papajohns.com Bowl Media Contact: Norm Reilly at 205-936-1793 or [email protected]
ESPN Media Contact: Jenny Zimmerman at 407-566-2213 or [email protected]
