Former Giants Wide Receiver Plaxico Burress Speaks Exclusively to E:60 Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 7 p.m. ET; Excerpts to Debut on SportsCenter, Monday, Aug. 24 at 6 p.m. ET

Former N.Y. Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, will talk in detail with correspondent Jeremy Schaap in an exclusive E:60 interview, Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 7 p.m. ET, about the early morning hours of Nov. 29, when he accidentally shot himself in the leg with his own gun at the Latin Quarter nightclub in Midtown N.Y., and about the two-year jail sentence he now faces.

Burress pleaded guilty Thursday, Aug. 20, to the weapons charge and avoided what would have been a mandatory minimum sentence of three years for second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He will head to prison when he is officially sentenced Sept. 22, and will be eligible for release after serving a little more than 20 months. The NFL has suspended Burress but will reinstate him once he completes his sentence.

Burress previously had a license to carry the gun in Florida, but it had expired nearly seven months before the shooting.

Excerpts from the interview will debut Monday, Aug. 24, on SportsCenter at 6 p.m. ET and in subsequent editions of the show. The interview will air in full on E:60.

About E:60

E:60 is ESPN’s first multi-subject, prime-time newsmagazine that offers a combination of investigative reporting, exclusive interviews with newsmakers, in-depth profiles of intriguing sports personalities, and features on emerging star athletes.  These stories are presented in a fresh and innovative format that incorporates producer/correspondent meetings. The award-winning and critically acclaimed series, will air Aug.11 at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN, in the third of five shows aired weekly, July 28-Aug. 25. The program was launched in October 2007.

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