FOX NFL SUNDAY (12:00 PM ET/6:00 AM local time) has often paid tribute to our nation's military, including live broadcasts from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. 7, 1941, both battleships, and their unique place in U.S. 2, 1945 in Tokyo Bay which officially signaled the end of World War II.Ĭurt Menefee, Terry Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson, Villanova alumnus Howie Long and Michael Strahan, in the most reverent of settings, prepare football fans for the day's action while offering a unique look at the surprise attack of Dec. Douglas MacArthur accepted the Empire of Japan's unconditional surrender on Sept. warship in history, but it was aboard the USS Missouri that Gen. 7, 1941, losing 1,177 crew members in the greatest loss of life on any U.S. The USS Arizona was among the first ships bombed on Dec. 6, in what is sure to be its most special broadcast ever, FOX NFL SUNDAY presents a special two-hour edition live from the deck of the Battleship Missouri Memorial, with the poignant USS Arizona Memorial as a backdrop, as the sun rises over Pearl Harbor.
Event programming that day includes college basketball and FOX broadcast network's evening presentation of the Big Ten Championship football game, live from Indianapolis.
5, FOX Sports 1 uses a set on the bow of the Battleship Missouri Memorial as home base for the day's studio programming. The baseball stars also plan to visit a local children's hospital and wounded warriors at the base hospital. 4, MLB on FOX game analyst Harold Reynolds teams with a contingent of baseball superstars, including Kansas City Royals starter Jeremy Guthrie, Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado, Boston Red Sox outfielder and native Hawaiian Shane Victorino to host a clinic for children at a local school, followed a day later by a similar event at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for children of active military personnel. "We appreciate the military's cooperation with this endeavor, and we hope to return to Pearl Harbor in 2016 to pay solemn tribute on the 75th Anniversary." "FOX Sports is honored to call Pearl Harbor home during this year's commemoration, an extremely fitting location to show our respect to the men and women of our nation's armed forces, past and present," said FOX Sports President and COO Eric Shanks. "It's an even greater honor for all of us to be a part of an event that will pay tribute to our veterans, active service personnel, and those who lost their lives on Dec. ""It's a thrill for our basketball program to be part of a great game against an outstanding team like Oklahoma on national television," stated Villanova head coach Jay Wright. That game will be televised by Fox Sports 1 and is the first half of a doubleheader with the second game to feature the United States Naval Academy and the University of Oregon. 4-7, 2015, paying tribute to the nation's military while enlightening Americans about the world-altering events that occurred there almost 75 years ago on "a date which will live in infamy." Activities and events associated with three of FOX Sports' core sports - Major League Baseball, National Football League and college basketball - are planned throughout the extra-long weekend.Īmong the events scheduled is a college basketball clash featuring defending BIG EAST champion Villanova and Oklahoma in a contest slated for Monday, Dec. Using sports as a backdrop, FOX Sports is honored to call Pearl Harbor home Dec. Later this year, FOX Sports, with the help of the four branches of the United States military - Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force - pays solemn tribute to those who tragically fell that day, in that four-year conflict and the sacrifice of today's uniformed personnel around the world in a weekend-long remembrance. 7, 1941, which saw almost 2,400 lives lost, catapulted the country into World War II and united all Americans in a groundswell of patriotism.
New York - The sudden attack of United States military installations on the Hawaiian Islands on Dec.
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