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Subject: Travis Roy - ESPN
Posted by: Great One
- Sustainer [053272014] Mon, Jan 09, 2006, 13:56
ESPN to air TRAVIS ROY
FEATURE SUNDAY, JANUARY 8
Boston, MA – ESPN will air an extensive feature on Travis Roy on Sunday, January 8, 2006. The 12-minute segment will be shown during the late edition of SportsCenter, which airs from 10:30 PM - Midnight (ET), and will re-air throughout the day on Monday, January 9.
The segment, which was taped shortly after the 10th anniversary of Travis Roy’s 1995 accident, will focus on Roy’s life since that paralyzing accident, including his work as a motivational speaker and with the Travis Roy Foundation. Several recipients of Travis Roy Foundation individual grants were also interviewed for the ESPN segment.
TRAVIS ROY: Travis Roy, 30, gained national notoriety in 1995 after he was paralyzed from the shoulders down just 11 seconds into his first college hockey game for the defending national champion Boston University Terriers. Now a quadriplegic, he returned to BU less than one year after the accident and graduated with a degree in public relations in 2000. His autobiography Eleven Seconds, co-written with Sports Illustrated writer E.M. Swift, was published in 1998. The book is now in its sixth printing and was re-released this past fall with a new, updated chapter.
Actively involved in the activities of the Travis Roy Foundation, Roy resides in Boston and makes his living as a motivational speaker. In 2004, he added television commentator to his resume, making his debut as a college hockey analyst during WMTW-TV8’s coverage of the University of Maine Black Bears. In 2005, he worked as a color analyst during ESPNU's national coverage of the 2005 NCAA D-I college hockey playoffs in Worcester, MA. For more information on Travis Roy’s accomplishments and career as a motivational speaker, please visit www.travisroy.com.
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| 1 | Great One
Sustainer
ID: 053272014
Mon, Jan 09, 2006, 13:59
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Alright, I just caught the last few minutes of this feature on the last sportscenter of the morning/afternoon... I think it was the last time it was going to air though unless they miraculously play it on tonights Sportcenter. Anyone have any idea where I can get a video of this or if they will play it again?
I also don't see it on ESPN video but perhaps it'll be up there sometime later.
It was a great piece.
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| 2 | Jana Spaulding
ID: 42182314
Thu, Feb 23, 2006, 15:11
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ESPN will be providing the Travis Roy Foundation with copies of the feature and a link will be available in the Foundation's web site (www.travisroyfoundation.org, under "Travis Roy" and then "In the News") and Travis Roy's motivational speaking web site (www.travisroy.com, under "Press Coverage") as soon as they do. As of 2/22, we are still waiting for ESPN's duplication dept. to finish up, but we hope to have the copies in hand by March 1.
ESPN's John Buccigross wrote an article about Travis Roy which includes a link to ESPN360 where the feature is also available (I believe this is a pay service, however). A copy of John's article is also available in the two sites.
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| 3 | Tree
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Thu, Feb 23, 2006, 16:01
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man, i'm going to have to go back and look at some o the old newspaper clipping i did when i was a reporter. one of the towns i covered was Marion, Mass, where Tabor Acadamy is located (where Travis Roy playing HS hockey)...
i'm sure i did an article on him when all this happened, since i was covering the town at the time. i'd be curious as to what i wrote....
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| 4 | Great One
Sustainer
ID: 053272014
Thu, Feb 23, 2006, 17:59
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Thanks very much, can't wait for the video to be available. Its something every person - sports fan or not - should watch.
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| 6 | Great One
Sustainer
ID: 053272014
Wed, Mar 08, 2006, 18:18
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Travis Roy Foundation
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| 7 | Great One
ID: 201155199
Wed, May 23, 2007, 19:35
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I still can't find this video anywhere.
Blue Hen? got any pull here? at least get it up on ESPN360. I emailed John Bucigross and got no response.
This piece even won an Emmy Award in 2006.
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| 8 | blue hen
ID: 472431014
Wed, May 23, 2007, 23:42
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I'll give a look tomorrow.
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| 9 | blue hen
Leader
ID: 710321114
Thu, May 24, 2007, 16:13
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I looked. No dice.
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| 10 | Great One
ID: 201155199
Fri, May 25, 2007, 08:05
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Is there somebody I can contact to request it? like whoever runs the ESPN360 website perhaps?
I would have guessed Bucigross would want to promote such an important story but he never responded. Or at least provide it to the Foundation so they could use it to help raise money.
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| 11 | ryguy tierney
ID: 52492010
Wed, May 20, 2009, 11:10
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i think that everyone should feel bad for travis roy and support him and keep earning money so hopefuly someday he will walk again. god bless you travis roy!!
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| 12 | Great One
ID: 33421915
Wed, May 20, 2009, 12:18
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Still nobody can find met the DVD of the ESPN piece on this story. Including the Travis Roy website. And it won an Emmy Award too!
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| 13 | Great One
ID: 17459269
Wed, Jun 03, 2009, 11:21
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Travis Roy - ESPN I finally found it.
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