Last year's championship was the inaugural year for the event, which was aired tape delayed on NESN.

CNN/SI reaches more than 20 million households, while NESN delivers 3.6 million households. NCAA Productions will produce the broadcast for both networks.

Because of the tragedies of September 11, the Bulldogs' football game against Cheyney University was moved from September 15 to November 17, setting up an unusual day for one multisport student-athlete.

Alston began November 17 in Cheyney, Pennsylvania, with the Bowie State football team, where he started the game against Cheyney University and switched between right and left defensive end. A recent selection to the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association's all-conference football first team, Alston finished with four tackles and a sack in the 40-6 season-ending Bowie State victory.

After a quick shower and a trip to Taco Bell, Alston and his wife Mechelle drove 125 miles to Washington, D.C., where the Bulldogs' basketball team was opening its regular season against the University of District of Columbia.

Alston made it just 10 minutes before the game started, taking his place on the bench before the beginning of the national anthem.

Alston came into the game early, and the 6-6, 270-pound backup center provided a presence inside for the Bulldogs. He finished the game with four rebounds and one point, a free throw that came late in the game. The Bulldogs lost, 85-82.

"I'm tired, but it's about what I expected," said Alston after the basketball game. "There are things I need to work on, like my free-throw shooting and my stamina."

Bulldogs head men's basketball coach Luke D'Alessio was happy with Alston's contributions, particularly since the Bulldogs had several players in foul trouble and others out with injuries.

"I thought he played well, especially with one practice," he said.

Not to mention the 125-mile drive, the extra media interviews and the football game. Alston might look downright perky for the Bulldogs' next game on the hardwood.

-- Compiled by Kay Hawes

Earlier this month, the NCAA announced Eunice Kennedy Shriver as the second female recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Award, the Association's highest honor.

The first female to win the award was Althea Gibson, who was recognized by the NCAA at the 1991 Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

A 1953 graduate of Florida A&M University, Gibson competed on the the women's tennis and basketball teams and the men's golf team. She joined the LPGA in 1965, but her forte was tennis.

Gibson, who was raised in New York City, was the first black tennis player to gain international prominence. She won 56 major singles and doubles championships during her 23-year career.

She was the American Tennis Association of National Negro Women singles champion for 10 straight years from 1948 to 1957.

In 1956, she was the singles champion and a member of the doubles championship team at the French Open Championship. Gibson also won the singles titles at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open Championship in 1957 and 1958.

After retiring from the tennis circuit, Gibson became director of community relations and a promotional representative for Ward Banking Company in New York. She joined the Essex County Park Commission as a sports consultant in 1970 and became program director at Valley View Racquet Club in 1972.

In 1975, she was appointed as state commissioner of athletics in New Jersey and served in that position until 1985. She served on the three-member state athletics control board from January 1986 to March 1988, when she was appointed to the Department of Community Affairs, specializing in physical fitness and its application to senior citizens.

Her many honors include the Associated Press Poll-Frederick C. Miller Eagle and Babe Zaharias awards as the most outstanding woman athlete of 1957-58 and the Banchees award for sportsmanship. She received an honorary degree from Monmouth University in 1980 and is honored in the Florida Sports Hall of Fame and the National Lawn Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum.

One reason for the lack of female Teddy winners is a rule that before this year required winners to have received a varsity athletics award. Since many women's sports were not elevated to varsity status until about two decades ago, many deserving female nominees would not have met that criterion. The NCAA Honors Committee, however, waived that requirement earlier this year.