Auburn's Jason Campbell Selected as a Cingular Wireless/ABC Sports All-America Player of the Week Finalist
October 17 2004 - 12:48PM
PR Newswire (US)
Auburn's Jason Campbell Selected as a Cingular Wireless/ABC Sports
All-America Player of the Week Finalist ATLANTA, Oct. 17
/PRNewswire/ -- Auburn senior quarterback Jason Campbell, who
passed for a career-high 297 yards and three touchdowns in the
Tigers' 38- 20 win over Arkansas yesterday, has been selected as a
Cingular Wireless/ABC Sports All-America Player of the Week
finalist. Campbell completed 17 of 19 passes -- all in the first
three quarters -- to set the Auburn record for completion
percentage during a game in helping the No. 4-Tigers to their ninth
consecutive victory. Campbell is one of four candidates for the
All-America Player of the Week, who are selected by a panel of ABC
Sports and ESPN college football analysts, led by John Saunders.
The other finalists are: Nebraska quarterback Joe Dailey, who
passed for 342 yards and five touchdowns in the Cornhuskers' 59-27
rout over Baylor; USC wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett, who hauled in
five receptions for 139 yards and three touchdowns in the Trojans'
45-7 win against No. 15 Arizona State; and Michigan State
quarterback Drew Stanton, who passed for 308 yards and ran for
another 102 in the Spartans' 51-17 victory against No. 19
Minnesota. Who will be this week's winner is still undecided and
the final decision now rests in the hands of college football fans
nationwide. For the first time in college football history, fans
can now make the call on who they think deserves to be the
All-America Player of the Week with the power and ease of wireless
text-messaging. Cingular is making the voting open to other
wireless carriers* allowing even more fans to participate. Fans can
also vote online at http://www.abcsportsallamerica.com/ or at
ESPN.com (keyword: cingular). Tiger fans can show their support for
Campbell by voting for him up until 8 p.m. EST on Sunday, October
17. The winner will be announced during the October 17 11 p.m. EST
broadcast of ESPN "SportsCenter". Here's how fans can vote for the
Cingular/ABC Sports All-America Player of the Week: -- Text
"PLAYER" to "64444" on your wireless phones -- Follow the prompt to
vote for your All-America selection -- Alternatively, go to
http://www.abcsportsallamerica.com/ or log onto
http://www.espn.com/ and enter keyword "Cingular" Campbell is vying
to become the fourth quarterback to claim the Cingular/ABC Sports
All-America Player of the Week award this season. Previous winners
include Purdue quarterback Kyle Orton, Texas Tech quarterback Sonny
Cumbie, Georgia quarterback David Greene and Oklahoma running back
Adrian Peterson. Fans who vote on their wireless phones only need
to register one time. Then, each week, the four candidates for
Player of the Week are automatically sent to their wireless phones.
Each time fans vote, they will be entered into a sweepstakes to win
a trip to the Bowl Championship Series game of their choice or
thousands of other instant prizes. Fans can vote as often as they
would like. On December 1, fans will also get a chance to determine
who the best player in the nation is by voting for the Cingular/ABC
Sports All-America Player of the Year. Fans will have until
December 8 to choose from among five finalists -- voting by either
text messaging or online. The selection process will culminate on
December 11 at 2 p.m. EST in a one-hour special on ABC Sports when
the Cingular Wireless/ABC Sports All- America Player of the Year
(selected by fans), and the All-America team (selected by the
Football Writers Association of America), will be announced. *
Other wireless carriers must opt-in for their subscribers to
participate ABOUT CINGULAR WIRELESS Cingular Wireless, a joint
venture between SBC Communications (NYSE - SBC) and BellSouth (NYSE
- BLS), serves more than 25 million voice and data customers across
the United States. A leader in mobile voice and data
communications, Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer
Rollover(SM), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their
unused monthly minutes. Cingular is the largest provider of GSM
services in the United States, and has a 100 percent digital
GSM/GPRS footprint across its service area. It also launched the
world's first commercial deployment of wireless services using
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) technology. Cingular
also provides corporate e-mail and other advanced data services
through its GPRS, EDGE and Mobitex packet data networks. Details of
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