{"id":70657,"date":"2016-07-01T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=70657"},"modified":"2016-07-04T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T21:55:21","slug":"delta-state-shines-on-national-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/07\/delta-state-shines-on-national-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State shines on national TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University has received quite a bit of airtime on national television lately \u2014 first with an appearance on \u201cFox &amp; Friends,\u201d followed by a shoutout from Al Roker on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show.<\/p>\n<p>Delta State\u2019s very own \u201cBBQ Princess\u201d Leslie Roark Scott \u201995 made an appearance on \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d June 11 taking part in the 14<sup>th<\/sup> annual Big Apple BBQ Block Party in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Scott and her father Gary Roark are masterminds behind the award-winning Ubon\u2019s BBQ in Yazoo City, and the duo has received national attention for their tasty BBQ.<\/p>\n<p>Scott is no stranger to national TV, having made appearances on \u201cChopped Grill Masters,\u201d \u201cChopped Impossible,\u201d and will be on the new show \u201cSmoked\u201d July 6 on the cable channel Destination America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s getting easier for me to be on TV, but it\u2019s definitely taken some time. I\u2019m always excited about having the chance to represent Ubon\u2019s, Delta State and Mississippi,\u201d said Scott. \u201cThat\u2019s the most exciting opportunity right now \u2014 to be out there and talk about the things I love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tune into Scott\u2019s new show July 6 on Destination America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited about it because I got to talk about Delta State, I cooked okra and I talked about the Mississippi Delta the entire time,\u201d said Scott.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qi4n4rvX5CQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And Delta State made a strong appearance on the \u201cToday&#8221; show Tuesday when host Al Roker was drawn to Kate Hargrave Hood \u201998 passionately waiving her Fighting Okra flag in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Hood and her family are vacationing in New York this week after winning the trip from the Junior Auxiliary of Cleveland Children&#8217;s Benefit Ball Auction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an unbelievable and awesome experience to make it on the show,\u201d said Hood. \u201cNothing gets attention like the Fighting Okra! I&#8217;m a second generation &#8216;Today\u2019 show watcher, and I knew Al Roker being a food fanatic would love the flag and it would get him interested. I&#8217;m proud to be a DSU alumnus!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roker approached Hood, who proudly shouted her Delta State Pride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right, the Fighting Okra \u2014 wow, they go up against the Battling Rutabaga. Watch out,\u201d joked Roker.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vnHh4gbAf8U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow all Delta State news at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\">www.deltastate.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delta State University has received quite a bit of airtime on national television lately \u2014 first with an appearance on \u201cFox &amp; Friends,\u201d followed by a shoutout from Al Roker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,418],"tags":[1408,1567,1566,1565],"class_list":["post-70657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-alumni","category-community-3","tag-alumni","tag-fighting-okra","tag-fox-friends","tag-today-show"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70657"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70672,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70657\/revisions\/70672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}