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CBS SPORTS' NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME COVEREAGE TO TIP-OFF WITH WORLD TELEVISON PREMIERE OF GREEN DAY'S NEW SINGLE 'KNOW YOUR ENEMY'

The opening tease of CBS Sports' 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game on Monday, April 6 (9:00 PM, ET) will feature :90 seconds from the song "Know Your Enemy," the first single from the long awaited new album 21st Century Breakdown, due out Friday, May 15th, from Grammyâ Awarding winning band Green Day.

 

            The music montage previewing the contestants in the 2009 NCAA title game will be the world television premiere of "Know Your Enemy." Pete Radovich produces.

 

North Carolina, Connecticut, Michigan State and Villanova are on the road to Detroit as CBS Sports culminates its 28th consecutive year as exclusive network broadcaster of the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship and Final Four with live coverage of the national semi-final games on Saturday, April 4 (6:00-11:00 PM, ET) and the National Championship game from Ford Field. Jim Nantz and Clark Kellogg, CBS Sports' lead college basketball announce team, call the games. Kellogg becomes only the second analyst in CBS Sports' history to call the Final Four and Championship Games.

 

Greg Gumbel, Greg Anthony and Seth Davis host THE FINAL FOUR SHOW (4:00-6:00 PM, ET) on Saturday live from Ford Field, featuring tournament highlights, analysis of the four participants and interviews with coaches and players.

 

Green Day - vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool - were loud, snotty, scrappy kids from working-class backgrounds who came of age in the underground punk scene in Berkeley, California. Even though they had released two records prior (1039 / Smooth Out Slappy Hours and Kerplunk), they announced their arrival with 1994's Dookie, a dynamic blast of exuberant three-chord punk-pop that spoke to bored teenagers everywhere. The album eventually sold 15 million copies worldwide, earned the band their first Grammy Award and inspired a raft of imitators. Over the years, Green Day continued to top the charts with their subsequent studio albums Insomniac, Nimrod, and Warning while entertaining millions of fans with their frenetic live shows.  But it was their landmark 2004 album American Idiot that launched Green Day into the stratosphere.  American Idiot debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart and went on to sell more than five million copies in the U.S. and 12 million worldwide. It spawned five hit singles, earned seven Grammy nominations (winning two including Rock Album of the Year) and raised the bar for modern rock and roll.  On Friday, May 15, 2009, Green Day will release their long awaited follow up - 21st Century Breakdown - and launch a world tour soon after.

 

 

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CBS Sports Contact: Jen Sabatelle         212-975-4120                jsabatelle@cbs.com

Green Day Contact:  Brian Bumbery      818-953-3203                brian.bumbery@wbr.com

 

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