V Foundation Wine Celebration Hosts & Friends of Jimmy V

The August 2010 event at Nickel & Nickel winery marks the return for the second year in a row of popular Wine Celebration host, Mike Krzyzewski. Affectionately known as "Coach K", Krzyzewski has led the Blue Devils to three NCAA Championships, ten Final Fours (third most in history), and ten ACC Championships over 28 seasons at Duke.  He also coached the United States men's national basketball team at the 2006 world championship and the 2008 Summer Olympics, culminating with the gold medal at the Olympics.  

Olympic Gold With Krzyzewski at the helm, Team USA reclaimed the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics with a 118-107 victory over Spain. Krzyzewski guided the U.S. squad to a perfect 8-0 record in the Olympics as the team averaged 106 points per game while winning by an average margin of 27.9 points per contest. In the summer of 2007, he guided the USA squad to a gold medal victory and an unblemished 10-0 record in the FIBA Americas Championship.

Broadcasting legend, Dick Vitale, college basketball's top analyst and ambassador, joined ESPN during the 1979-80 season -- just after the network's September 1979 launch -- following a successful college and pro coaching career. Vitale is on the Board of Directors of The V Foundation. With Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski and ESPN/ABC analyst John Saunders, Vitale chairs the annual V Foundation Golf Classic. He can be seen and heard with basketball commentary on all of the ESPN networks as well as ESPN.com and other ESPN and basketball publications.  He is a member of seven Halls of Fame.

Lou Holtz, an author, television commentator, motivational speaker, and former NCAA football and NFL head coach. Holtz is the only coach in NCAA history to lead six different programs to bowl games and the only coach to guide four different programs to the final top 20 rankings. He is also a multiple winner of National Coach of the Year honors.  Over the years, the slender, bespectacled Holtz has become known for his quick wit and ability to inspire players. In 2005, Holtz joined ESPN as a college football analyst. On May 1, 2008, Holtz was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

Before becoming a respected broadcaster, able to report on sports and hard news with equal skill, Robin Roberts balanced a hugely successful collegiate basketball career while doing well enough in classes to graduate cum laude from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1983. Out of college, she began working at television stations in her native Louisiana, eventually moving to larger and larger markets until she landed a spot as a regular on-air personality at ESPN in 1990 where she worked with Jim Valvano.  In addition to hosting the network's flagship news program, SportsCenter, Roberts contributed her talents to pro football and women's basketball segments. In 1995, she filled in on ABC's morning news show, Good Morning America, eventually being named one of the show's three anchors a decade later.  In July of 2007, Robin Roberts announced on air that she was diagnosed with breast cancer.   She has completed all her treatment and doing extremely well.