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Honored to share this one.
PRODUCER:
@jonfish2
DP/EDITOR: Jason Johnson
Additional thanks: Mike Bollacke, Jeff Bollacke, Tommy Bartlett
'SC Featured': 'The Michigan,' the goal that changed everything - ESPN Video
New ESPN film takes Steelers great & military veteran Rocky Bleier on an emotional return to Vietnam where he was wounded in combat
SC Featured: The Return - Aug 20 | 8 p.m. ET | ESPN2
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ERICK ALL - FULL CIRCLE
Minutes maybe seconds from life and death in 2001. Instead he grew up to be a captain for
@UMichFootball
Story on
@CollegeGameDay
9am ET Saturday 9-17
Reporter:
@GenoEspn
Producer:
@Jonfish2
Trailer below:
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49 yr old Ray Ruschel spent nearly 17 years on active duty, but earlier this year decided to defy father time and play college football.
Reporter:
@GenoESPN
Producer:
@Jonfish2
This Saturday
@CollegeGameDay
9-12ET
For Aidan Hutchinson, the path to becoming a Michigan Wolverine was set the moment he was born.
While the senior captain followed his father’s footsteps, he has been able to carve out his own legacy.
Filming at sunset in Vietnam for the
@RockyBleier
documentary
#TheReturn
debuting on 50th anniversary on the day Rocky Bleier was wounded in combat. Please watch The Return on ESPN2 @ 8pm ET this upcoming Tuesday Aug 20th
My latest for
@PGSportsNow
: I interviewed Steelers legend
@RockyBleier
about his upcoming
@espn
documentary
#TheReturn
, a powerful story about Bleier confronting his past as a Super Bowl champ & a soldier in Vietnam who suffered a gruesome injury. Enjoy!!
I was the Production Assistant assigned to the Cardinals game for SportsCenter the day Mark McGwire hit his Homerun number
#61
. Years later I was in
@BobLeyESPN
office - he still had the shot sheet (script PA’s write) so the Anchors can do the highlights tacked to a cork board.
Happy anniversary to when Klay Thompson was randomly asked about scaffolding for a local news station in NYC and said he likes to check how old the pipes are before walking under the scaffold 😂
Our latest story - we take a look at the people that make
@CollegeGameDay
go!
Reporter: Tom Rinaldi
Producer:
@Jonfish2
(Jon Fish)
Editor: Matt McCormick, Dave Lynch
@Bluefoot_tv
- please see below:
I forgot just how pretty the
@universityofga
is. Been awhile since I was in Athens, but it is great town and campus.
Pretty overhead shots on
@CollegeGameDay
this morning. As Munson would say “great day to be a Dawg.” 🐶
As it is
#NSD
(National Signing Day) the below Michigan recruiting class that included Tom Brady
#TB12
and
@CharlesWoodson
could be one of the greatest recruiting classes of all time. See below:
Michigan's greatest recruiting class ever? Charles Woodson and Tom Brady alone would make it so, but also James Hall, Rob Renes, Josh Williams, Aaron Shea, Tai Streets and Daydrion Taylor among others.
@Sara_Walsh
Great video - after all Tom Brady will forever be Boston and Sweet Caroline is part of the fabric of that town - even in Germany.
@Sara_Walsh
Please see our latest story on
@UMichFootball
Defensive End
@KwityPaye_19
and his improbable journey from West Africa, to America and Ann Arbor.
Reporter: Tom Rinaldi
Producer:
@Jonfish2
Full Story Below:
h/t:
@HendrickenHawks
for the help on the story.
Produced by
@Jonfish2
, a 1995 U-M grad, the latest
#SCFeatured
looks at the origins and resurgence of "The Michigan," the epic lacrosse-style goal Mike Legg scored during
@umichhockey
's 1996 national title run.
Tomorrow morning 9AM ET on
@CollegeGameDay
please check our story on
@UMichFootball
Defensive End Kwity Paye
@KwityPaye_19
and his improbable journey from West Africa, to America, and to Ann Arbor.
Reporter: Tom Rinaldi
Producer:
@Jonfish2
Bravo goes to Best of Show winner Jon Fish for his exceptional documentary The Return. Deft direction and an all-star production team skillfully translated the emotional highs and lows of football into Rocky Bleier’s profound journey back to Viet Nam.
Thanks
@bhiga12
for having me on
@KITV4
to talk about our short documentary
#TheReturn
which is showing tomorrow in the
@HIFF
. The Return is about
@Steelers
Rocky Bleier’s return fo Vietnam for the first time in 5 decades.
"I take it personal to make sure that she gets everything that she never had."
Michigan DL Kwity Paye is working to give back to his mother who sacrificed so much to give their family a better future.
(📍
@goodyear
)
New
#ESPNDaily
:
None other than Tom Rinaldi tells me the story of Steelers halfback and Vietnam War vet
@RockyBleier
— and the trip they took, together, to the Hiep Duc Valley. It’s as remarkable, and as moving, as it gets.
Our
#VeteransDay2020
episode:
Southern Miss RB Frank Gore, Jr. in tonight's win over Rice in the LendingTree bowl:
21 rushes for 329 yards and 2 rushing TD.
That's the most rushing yards by any player in bowl game history.
Incredible.
Working on a story ahead of Saturday's
@oregonfootball
vs.
@OhioStateFB
matchup and had an opportunity to interview the Oregon Duck. But he doesn't talk. So I went to his cousins for help. They were busy.
This Saturday on
@espn
news
@ESPNPinKings
returns. The 1 hr documentary about 2 friends, high school champion wrestlers, co-captains separated during the 1980’s War on Drugs has to be seen. Narrated by
@MichaelChiklis
, a film by
@Jonfish2
@brett_forrest
- 9PM ET, 6PM WCT.
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Everyman
#HarryHiggs
His name is Harry Higgs and he’s making a name for himself on the
@PGATOUR
while having a great time doing it.
REPORTER:
@GenoEspn
(Gene Wojciechowski)
PRODUCER:
@Jonfish2
(Jon Fish)
Watch below:
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@espn
@NFL
Countdown:
We explore the meaning of the word that defines the
@Lions
#GRIT
We were lucky to have Award Winning Actor, Michigan native and Lions fan Jeff Daniels lend his voice to the essay
WRITER:
@Jonfish2
VO: Jeff Daniels
Fear the Deer 🦌!!
@FairfieldStags
mens and women’s programs hoop are in the
@MAACSports
championship games with the chance to make the NCAA tournament.
If the men win they will be dancing for the first time since 1997.
In 97 they scared Dean Smith and UNC.
It's the soundtrack to some of hockey's most iconic moments 🏒
As the ESPN
@NHL
theme song we all love returns tonight for the first time in 17 years,
@justinbieber
takes a look at how it all came to be.
“You’re going to remember this for the rest of your life, give all the heart you have."
100-year-old Jack Gillooly shares his story from the last Army-Navy game played at West Point in 1943 and reflects on his time in the military.
255 from Coastal Carolina. First visit to Conway. We will get a closer look at
@olcrimson
later in the show, but you can see our on site waver up on the hill there. Right in the middle. If you squint.
#GoCougs
#WaveTheFlag
Welcome back
@NHL
- screening B called - said the Sabres game is going to OT, and Patrick Roy is standing on his head in the
@Avalanche
@DetroitRedWings
game...hockey is leading the “A” block of SportsCenter
@espn
#CallOn4000
🚨🎥: SCFEATURED: One Nation Under Pickleball
It’s the hottest sport in the country- but where did it come from and why?
Reporter:
@GenoEspn
Producer:
@jonfish2
Story below 👇
Today is the 51st Anniversary of
@RockyBleier
wounded in combat.
Last year Rocky, Tom Rinaldi &
@Jonfish2
were featured on the
@AdamSchefter
podcast to discuss the documentary.
Listen to the podcast below⬇️
The film re-airs tonight 7PM ET on
@espn2
, 930ET
@espn
News
The Adam Schefter Podcast: ESPN's Tom Rinaldi,
@Jonfish2
and former Steelers’ RB
@RockyBleier
discuss "The Return," a documentary about the 50-year anniversary of Bleier being wounded in the Vietnam War.
🎧
Below is the trailer for
#TheReturn
our Award-Winning Short Documentary about
@rockybleier
and his journey back to
#Vietnam
for the first time in nearly 5 decades.
The best teams in Massachusetts came together for a 2 day Championship Meet and Lexington's Boys came away with more points than any other. Call it unofficial. Call it what you want. We call it an All-State Championship🏆 🥇 👑
#LexGo
#MinutemenTF
Scores:
"The big stadiums are quiet today, and in a year of losing things that feels like yet another metaphor of how the world we'll return to someday won't be like the one we left behind."
All Quiet by Wright Thompson:
"The Return" plays at Dole Cannery Saturday @ 11:30 a.m. This is the INCREDIBLE story of Rocky Bleier, the 4-time Super Bowl champion with the Steelers who was wounded in the Vietnam War. ESPN's Jon Fish, the Director of the film, will be there for a Q&A after 🤙🏽🏈
@Jonfish2
ESPN's
@Jonfish2
is visiting
@bsusportslink
today to talk about his documentary "The Return" and facilitate a creative storytelling workshop for Sports Link students. Welcome, Jon! More info:
Dec 6, 1941 a game was played on Oahu between
@HawaiiFootball
@wubearcats
- the next day the world changed.
Reporter:
@ChrisConnelly
Producer: Jen Chafitz
This story 1st aired 14 years ago.
@GoPuns
Willamette University Pearl Harbor Football Team
Our latest story - It is Week Zero of College Football - Wright Thompson reflects on what was and what the future of College Football may hold.
Reporter: Wright Thompson
Producer:
@Jonfish2
Editor: Jen Holt