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Former ESU Punter Ken Parrish Signs with Philadelphia Eagles – ESU/John Bryant

       Parrish averaged 40.3 yards per punt during his career at ESU graduated in 2006 with a degree in Criminal Justice. Parrish was in training camp with the San Francisco 49ers prior to the 2007 season.

    Parrish has had to make many tough decisions. The latest was giving up a job with the Stroud Area Regional Police to chase his dream of playing in the NFL. That dream seemed all but over after Parrish was released by the 49ers and no other teams showed interest in him. After being hired by the SARP last July, Parrish went to the police academy and graduated in December. After completing training, he would work in the same department as William Parrish, his father and a captain in the force.

Actor Ryan Reynolds, to Serve as Grand Marshal for Pocono 500 – Pocono Raceway/John Bryant

        Prior to his starring role in THE PROPOSAL, Canadian born Reynolds recently starred in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” “Adventureland,” “Definitely-Maybe,” ”Smokin Aces,” “The Amityville Horror” and “Van Wilder.” He is married to actress/model Scarlett Johansson.

       The June 7th Pocono 500 begins at 2:00PM ET with pre-race activities beginning at 1:00PM.

First Annual Pocono Raceway Festival Coming to Downtown Stroudsburg June 6th – Pocono Raceway/John Bryant

        Pocono Raceway Festival is designed to showcase all the great retail, food and other attractions downtown Stroudsburg has to offer. The event will augment and support the festivities and events taking place as NASCAR, ARCA and other racers come back to the Pocono Mountains. The festival will feature  numerous NASCAR vehicles on display  including Best Buy, Coors Light and Geico and the official Pocono Raceway Pace car to name a few.

    Visit one of the 20 different vendors and restaurants who will showcase food from sushi to steak and from burgers to handmade Ice Cream. The music will run throughout the day on numerous stages around the town with some of the best music in the region. Also a free concert on Main Street featuring The Marshall Tucker Band. The entire day is free       Pocono Raceway Festival takes place on June 6th and starts at 12 pm until 8:30 pm.  Admission to the festival is free. 

RICHARD PETTY INTERVIEW – John Bryant

      PETTY: We came with all the hoodlums out of Chicago with the STP guys. It was a lot of fun. They had been here forever, I guess, because I guess Andy and his crowd came and then Andy went away but the crowds still came. They were always big here. I guess they run, I guess Andretti won in '69 for the STP for the first time and then Johncock won and they've had a decent record here. But they were always, always big. Even though they sponsored my race car and was big in stock cars, they still was leaned a little bit to the Indy deal because that's what they grew up with. It was always a lot of fun, and they knew everybody. It didn't make any difference, they knew the shortcuts getting around, how to get in and out of town, all the eating places and all the beer places, they knew it all, man. (Laughter)

      But it was just a fun, fun deal to be able to come up here and spend all day. You know, you had a lot of these guys that, the mechanics and stuff that go from stock cars to IndyCars or IndyCars to stock cars, so I think right now at Richard Petty Motorsports, I think we've got five or six guys, engineers and mechanics and stuff that came through the Indy situation. In fact, our chief engine man, I think he worked with Penske or he worked with somebody up here on two or three different winning cars. So the racing fraternity sort of just goes around, and it just makes it interesting to come back and see these people, and then I can go home and talk to some of my boys that have been here. So just makes it that much more interesting.

At Indianapolis Motor Speedway

1 p.m. (EDT) Sunday, May 24, 2009

ABC/IMS Radio Network/XM 145/Sirius 211 (Live)