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posted by on April 3, 2013 9:51 AM

Gruden’s QB Camp: Breaking down country music star Kenny Chesney

University of Tennessee quarterback Tyler Bray visits Jon Gruden’s QB Camp today in Tampa.

Bray is the 12th and final player in the 2013 QB Camp class to descend upon Gruden’s Fired Football Coaches Association office this spring, but he’s not the only member of Vols Nation to visit the Super Bowl-winning coach.

Country music star Kenny Chesney, a Knoxville native and longtime UT football fan, wanted to experience QB Camp for himself, so he dropped by to see Gruden a few weeks ago while in town to kick off his No Shoes Nation Tour.

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posted by on February 14, 2013 2:21 PM

Front & Center: Jon Gruden on return of fourth Gruden’s QB Camp

Monday Night Football analyst Jon Gruden (L) with former Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck during Gruden’s QB Camp in 2012. (Tim Casey/ESPN Images)

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For top college quarterbacks moving onto the National Football League, visiting Jon Gruden’s QB Camp has become an annual rite of spring.

The Monday Night Football analyst and Super Bowl-winning coach personally prepares detailed lesson plans for every player.

Last year, Gruden mentored Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson, Ryan Tannehill and others, arguably the most successful class of rookie quarterbacks in NFL history.

He helped prep each of them for the jump to the NFL.

(To the delight of fans, Gruden also introduced “Spider 2 Y Banana” into the lexicon.)

Gruden’s QB Camp series presented by Corona Extra is back for a fourth year this spring, beginning Thursday, April 4 at 8:30 p.m. ET (ESPN2) and continuing throughout the month with segments on SportsCenter and NFL studio shows across multiple ESPN networks.

Monday Night Football analyst Jon Gruden with former Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck during Gruden’s QB Camp in 2012. (Tim Casey/ESPN Images)

The SportsCenter specials will offer a first-hand look at some of this year’s top prospects leading up to the 2013 NFL Draft, which ESPN will again televise April 25-27. continue reading…

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posted by on October 1, 2012 8:39 AM

Tweetback: Ryder Cup collapse; NFL hits quarter pole; Cari Champion debuts; #espnWSummit begins today

Front Row knows you have better things to do all weekend than check your social media feeds, so we do it for you.

Here, from the ESPN PR universe, are some of the Tweets, posts and other commentary you may have missed.

You can thank us later!

Before we get to the Tweetback, ESPN’s First Take will debut a new host AND a new theme song today. For more on Cari Champion, the woman charged with keeping order between the disorderly (Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith) check back with Front Row later today.

“Embrace debate” at 10 a.m. ET (ESPN2), but now embrace the song created exclusively for the show by popular recording artists Wale and Stalley. The song is entitled “Every Word Great” and it was produced in NYC by one of today’s hottest R&B/hip-hop producers, Amadeus.

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