Fox Sports Net To Air Butkus Awards Show On Saturday, January 9 At Noon
Dec. 7, 2000
Coral Gables, Fla. (www.hurricanesports.com) — – Tune in to FOXSports Net Florida for the television premiere of the annual Butkus Award Show from Hard Rock Live in Orlando on Saturday, December 9 at Noon. The Downtown Athletic Club of Orlando will present the Butkus Award to the best linebacker in college football during a Gala on Friday night. This year’s finalists are the Miami’s Dan Morgan, Oklahoma’s Rocky Calmus and Clemson’s Keith Adams.
The University of Miami’s Dan Morgan, a 6’3″ and 240-pound senior, holds the Hurricanes’ school record for career tackles with 507 and is the only player in school history to record more than 100 tackles in four consecutive seasons. He finished the regular season with 138 total tackles, 5 sacks and 15 tackles for loss. He is also this season’s winner of the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, which honors the nation’s top defender.
Clemson’s Keith Adams finished the year with 138 total tackles, 6 sacks and 19 tackles for loss. Oklahoma’s Rocky Calmus recorded 122 total tackles, 4 sacks and 16 tackles for loss.
FOX Sports Net currently reaches over 3.8 million homes throughout Florida, including the home satellite dish market. FOX Sports Net’s programming includes Major League Baseball’s Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers, the University of Miami, the University of South Florida and the University of North Florida.
FOX Sports Net reaches more than 70 million households nationwide. FOX Sports Net is a service of National Sports Partners, equally owned by Cablevision’s Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc., and FOX Entertainment Group. FOX Sports Net is a service of Rainbow Sports, a division of Cablevision’s Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc. Rainbow Sports has been dedicated to “Home Team” fans for nearly 20 years. Rainbow Sports incorporates all of Rainbow’s sports assets, including its 50 percent ownership of FOX Sports Net and FOX Sports National Advertising, the Madison Square Garden Properties, and the ownership and management of seven regional sports networks in six of the nation’s largest markets — Chicago, Florida, New England, New York, Ohio and San Francisco.
