Feb. 24, 2004
EASTON, Pa. (www.lafayette.edu) - Best-selling author John Feinstein will serve as the Lafayette Sports Network color analyst for the Lafayette men's basketball game vs. Navy on Thursday, Feb. 26, joining RCN-4 sports director Gary Laubach, who handles play-by-play duties for the Leopards' television broadcasts. Feinstein, who is joining the Lafayette Sports Network as a guest analyst for the fourth straight season, is the author of The Last Amateurs, a best-selling book chronicling the 1999-2000 Patriot League men's basketball season and the Leopards' championship run, as well as A Season on the Brink, A Good Walk Spoiled and many others.
Lafayette Maroon Club Hall of Fame member Stacey Cagenello '87 will join Laubach as the analyst for the Lafayette women's basketball game vs. American on Saturday, Feb. 28. Cagenello starred for the Lafayette women's basketball team during the mid-1980s, helping lead the Leopards to the East Coast Conference title in 1984-85. Lafayette was 85-30 during Cagenello's four seasons on College Hill.
The 2003-04 Lafayette men's and women's basketball seasons feature a Patriot League-best 26 contests on the television airwaves via the Lafayette Sports Network. All LSN telecasts are available live to more than 9.1 million viewers on RCN-TV 4 and WBPH-TV 60 in Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey.
In addition to unparalleled television exposure, Lafayette basketball will be broadcast on the radio via WEST-AM 1400 for the 68th consecutive season, and the live audio and video feed of all broadcasted events will be available simultaneously on Lafayette's award-winning Web site. All Lafayette webcasts are distributed by RealNetworks, Inc., the global leader in Internet media delivery.
Lafayette Takes Center Stage In Feinstein's The Last Amateurs. 
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Nationally recognized as a leader in collegiate sports broadcasting on regional television and radio, Lafayette has seen its Web site become one of the most popular mediums for Leopard fans. The sports portal of www.lafayette.edu received more than 3.1 million page views in the 2002-03 athletic seasons as more than 100 audio or video webcasts were made available.
About the Lafayette Sports Network
The Lafayette Sports Network, the most expansive television package in the Patriot League seven years running, can be seen by more than 9.1 million viewers in Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey. Thirty-three events are being televised during the 2003-04 athletic seasons on RCN-TV 4 and WBPH-TV 60, and 16 of those telecasts are airing on Empire Sports Network to more than 17.5 million viewers in Upstate and Western New York as well as more than 40 million potential viewers nationally on DIRECTV (channel 626) and at least 19.5 million possible viewers nationally on DISH Network (channel 432).
