E:60 Features on Reggie Love and Cindy McCain

ESPN’s primetime newsmagazine E:60 will profile two key figures in the presidential campaigns of the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees.  On Tuesday, August 19, at 7 p.m. ET, the ESPN sports-based, long-form feature program will tell of the unique route former Duke University football and basketball player Reggie Love took to become Senator Barack Obama’s personal assistant. 

On an upcoming edition, E:60 will profile Cindy McCain’s love for car racing and her experience behind the wheel.  E:60 cameras and correspondent Lisa Salters caught up with McCain as she attended the NASCAR Sprint Cup Race at the Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania.  Highlights:

Reggie Love (Tuesday, Aug. 19 at 7 p.m.)

The name Reggie Love may not mean much to the public at-large, but for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, he’s been a constant presence.  Love is the personal assistant, more commonly referred to as a “body man,” to Barack Obama, and is always by the Senator’s side.  The former Duke University football and basketball player tried to make it in the National Football League.  But after unsuccessful tryouts with the Packers and Cowboys in 2004 and 2005, Love landed a job on Obama’s staff, starting in the mailroom and rising to his current position in less than two years.

E:60 cameras and correspondent Rachel Nichols get an all-access pass, and multiple interviews with Love and Obama on the campaign trail, to tell of Love’s position, and the bond that’s formed between him and the Illinois senator.

Click here http://www.espnmediazone.com/mediacenter/mediacenter.html for video excerpts of the feature.  Registered ESPN MediaZone users can preview the full feature by clicking here – Reggie Love.

Cindy McCain (on an upcoming E:60 edition Tuesday 7 p.m.)

To most Americans, Cindy McCain is regarded as the wife of a war hero and the man who is running for president.  It turns out there is another side to the woman who would become First Lady if Senator John McCain is elected President of the United States.  For nearly her entire life, Cindy McCain has been an avid fan of professional car racing.  She has been behind the wheel as well, and has recently taking up drifting – a swerving style of street racing.  And she has experience under the hood, having built a car with her son, Jack.

In an exclusive interview with E:60’s Lisa Salters, McCain credits Jack with helping her to recover from a stroke in 2004 by pushing her to drive race cars.  McCain also discusses her other adventurous pursuits such as flying planes through the Arizona skies.

About E:60

E:60 is ESPN’s first multi-subject, prime-time newsmagazine program offering a combination of investigative features, profiles of intriguing sports personalities, and cutting edge stories on innovation in the sports world, including emerging sports and new technology.  The series focuses on life stories that relate or have a basis in sports, melding its stories with a glimpse of the reporters’ experiences – discussing the story idea with producers and shooting the interviews.  The program is produced and aired in high definition.  By turning the camera on the reporters, the program gives the viewer a unique behind-the-scenes look at television storytelling.

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