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"Callin' Baton Rouge" is an up-tempo song with a bluegrass sound. In it, the male narrator, presumably a truck driver, is attempting to make contact with a female ("such a strange combination of a woman and a child") named Samantha, whom he met the night before in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
"Roundball Rock" has since been revived for NBC's coverage of basketball at the Summer Olympics on multiple occasions. It was first brought back in 2008 in commercial bumpers and starting lineup announcements. [9] NBC has since used the theme song for all its Summer Olympics basketball events since 2016. [10] [11] [12]
It was the origin of the song “Roundball Rock,” which Tesh estimates was played 12,000 times during game coverage as the NBA on NBC theme from 1990 to 2002.
Be Like Mike is a television advertisement for Gatorade starring American professional basketball player Michael Jordan.Created by advertising agency Bayer Bess Vanderwarker, it featured various children and adults playing basketball with Jordan, set to a song with lyrics about wishing one could be like the basketball player.
The Lonely Island song "Rocky", from the album Turtleneck & Chain is a parody of this song, imitating the style with a story about an underdog boxer who fights fictional boxer Rocky Balboa and loses. This song is referenced in the first line: "Here's a little story that I think you'll like / It's not about Shaq or Iron Mike."
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Malik Hall scored 15 points as Michigan State basketball found its 3-point stroke, making 12 of 25 attempts in a 73-55 rout of Rutgers at home. Michigan State basketball rips off huge run in 2nd ...
The song won a Grammy Award in 1981 for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. NBC Sports used the song as theme music for its coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 1980 and 1981. WPVI-TV in Philadelphia had a local weekend program of the same name and had the song as its theme throughout the 1980s.