University of Richmond Athletics
Football Sportsline Continues Tuesday At Outback At Noon
12/07/2015 | Football
Another football playoff edition of the Spider Sportsline will be held this Tuesday, Dec. 8 with Coach Danny Rocco. All Conference standouts Brian Brown and David Jones are set to be the guests. The popular radio show airs live from Outback Steakhouse, 7917 W. Broad Street, from noon-1pm on ESPN 950, SPORTS FM 100.5, RichmondSpiders.com and ESPN950am.com.
Fans, alums and corporate partners are encouraged to attend, enjoy lunch, and talk Spider and college football. Listeners can call-in during the program at 804-622-0950 or toll free 877-994-4950. Emails can be sent anytime to spidersportsline@richmond.edu and will be read on-the-air.
Brown, a junior and Richmond native, had 41 yards on four receptions in Saturday's victory over William & Mary and set a Spider single-season receiving yardage record with 1,221 yards. He is the first Richmond receiver to ever have two 1,000 receiving yard seasons.
Jones set up the Spiders' first score Saturday with a 50-yard punt return, then picked off a pass in the end zone and returned it 100 yards for a touchdown to give Richmond a 21-3 lead. The interception was Jones' league-leading and UR record ninth of the season.
The No. 7 seed Spiders whipped conference and state rival William & Mary, 48-13, in this past Saturday's second round game at Robins Stadium. Now, Richmond travels to No. 2 seed Illinois State (10-2) for a quarterfinal game Friday night. Kickoff is 7:30pm ET.
New this season, a live video webcast of the show will be available on the Spider Athletics YouTube page. A video archive of each week's show will be posted on the same page and each show will also be archived for audio playback in ESPN 950's Audio Vault.The Spider Sportsline with Coach Rocco will continue to air live from Outback, 7917 W. Broad St., every Tuesday throughout the Spiders' playoff run. Outback Steakhouse, 7917 W. Broad Street, is open for lunch seven days a week at 11 a.m.
There are four other conveniently-located Outback restaurants throughout the area – in Richmond off Huguenot Road; in Colonial Heights off S. Park Circle; in Mechanicsville off Bell Creek Road and in Midlothian off Chital Drive.
