{"id":114327,"date":"2011-09-16T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/sky-ball-league-begins-airing-championship-games-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2011-09-16T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T20:47:08","slug":"sky-ball-league-begins-airing-championship-games-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/sky-ball-league-begins-airing-championship-games-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Ball League Begins Airing Championship Games in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"s2pred\"><strong>NEWS SOURCE: Sky Ball League<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 16, 2011 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Sky Ball League, the exciting next generation coed pro sport, begins airing the first of the two-part Tournament of Champions this weekend on Fox Sport Florida, Saturday, September 17 at 11 a.m. This is the culmination of Sky Ball League&#8217;s first season. Sky Ball League is also seen nationally on Dish and DirecTV. The series&#8217; weekly audience, which has been steadily growing since the sport hit the air in June, now has a viewership of nearly a million. <\/p>\n<p> Previously shot in Los Angeles, the championship play-by-play is announced by Van Earl Wright, former CNN anchor and a past host on FSN Final Score. Vying for the $40,000 purse are the Los Angeles 405s and the Youngstown Ballers. The MVP pockets an additional $5,000. Game highlights: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rAa3XfckDbM .<\/p>\n<p> The four teams that were formed and competed in the first season of Sky Ball League &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyballleague.com\">www.skyballleague.com<\/a> &#8211; were the Austin Starz, Los Angeles 405s, Tampa Dragons, and Youngstown Ballers. <\/p>\n<p> Tampa Dragons team members are Riverview, Florida roommates Bryn Renda and Kathryn &#8220;KK&#8221; Matheny, Kelvin Faison (Tampa), Blake Stein (Oviedo), Ashley Lowe and Melvin Jerome Cobb (both of Brandon).<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; RSS news feed for Sky Ball League: <a href=\"https:\/\/send2pressnewswire.com\/author\/sky-ball-league\/feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/send2pressnewswire.com\/author\/sky-ball-league\/feed<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>News issued by: Sky Ball League<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/send2pressnewswire.com\/image\/11-0818-skyball_72dpi.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Sky Ball League\"\/><\/p>\n<p><small>Original Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/send2pressnewswire.com\/image\/11-0818-skyball_72dpi.jpg\" class=\"autohyperlink\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/send2pressnewswire.com\/image\/11-0818-skyball_72dpi.jpg<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p> # # # <\/p>\n<p><small>Original Story ID: 2011-09-0916-001 (7266) :: 2011-09-0916-002<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Original Keywords: Maui Sport, Tampa Dragons, skyball, the sky ball league, sports, directv, cable, fox sports, entertainment, Tampa Florida news, announced by Van Earl Wright Sky Ball League Tampa Florida TAMPA, Fla.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Alternate Headline: Sky Ball League begins airing the first of the two-part Tournament of Champions this weekend on Fox Sports Florida, announced by Van Earl Wright<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small><strong>NEWS ARCHIVE NOTE:<\/strong> this archival news content, issued by the news source via Send2Press Newswire, was originally located in the Send2Press&reg; 2004-2015 2.0 news platform and has been permanently converted\/moved (and redirected) into our 3.0 platform. Also note the story &#8220;reads&#8221; counter (bottom of page) does not include any data prior to Oct. 30, 2016. This press release was originally published\/issued: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:47:08 +0000<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n<p class=\"s2pred\"><strong>NEWS SOURCE: Sky Ball League<\/strong> | Published: 2011-09-16 16:47:08<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 16, 2011 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Sky Ball League, the exciting next generation coed pro sport, begins airing the first of the two-part Tournament of Champions this weekend on Fox Sport Florida, Saturday, September 17 at 11 a.m. This is the culmination of Sky Ball League&#8217;s first season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"singles-wide.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19937],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases-archive","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":447,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}