CBS Sports TV Team

TURNER SPORTS

• Charles Barkley will serve as a studio analyst for CBS and Turner's NCAA Division I Men's Championship coverage.
• Barkley is in his 11th full season as an NBA studio analyst for TNT's Emmy® award-winning studio show Inside the NBA, working alongside host Ernie Johnson and analyst Kenny Smith. Inside the NBA follows TNT's exclusive Thursday night doubleheader NBA coverage. Barkley will also make several appearances on NBA TV during the 2010-11 NBA season.
• In 2002-03 Barkley was featured in a 30-minute Thursday night talk show series on TNT called, "Listen Up! Charles Barkley with Ernie Johnson and Kenny Smith." The live, studio-based show aired prior to TNT's exclusive Thursday night NBA coverage and encompassed a wide range of topics, from sports to news to entertainment.
• Barkley was named the 2002 "Personality of the Year" by Sports Illustrated.

CAREER

• Drafted out of Auburn University by the Philadelphia 76ers in 1984, Barkley spent eight seasons with the 76ers before being dealt to the Phoenix Suns shortly after the 1991-92 season in exchange for Jeff Hornacek, Tim Perry and Andrew Lang.
• After four seasons in Phoenix, Barkley was traded to the Houston Rockets in August 1996 for Robert Horry, Sam Cassell, Mark Bryant and Chucky Brown.
• Barkley retired after the 1999-2000 NBA season, which was his 16th season as an NBA player. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
• Barkley won the NBA's MVP Award in 1993, is a five-time All-NBA first team selection and was a member of 11 All-Star teams.
• While representing the United States, Barkley was the leading scorer for the gold medal-winning 1992 Olympic Dream Team and the 1996 Olympic Team.
• One of the NBA's greatest players, Barkley is 18th all-time in NBA scoring and is one of only four players in NBA history with 23,000 points, 12,000 rebounds, and 4,000 assists.
• Barkley played for three years at Auburn Univeristy where he led the SEC in rebounding each year. In addition, he received numerous awards including SEC Player of the Year in 1984, three All-SEC selections and one Second Team All-American selection. Barkley's No. 34 jsersey was retired at the school in 2001.

PERSONAL

• Barkley has authored three books: Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man? (2005), I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It (2002) and Outrageous! (1992).
• Barkley has his own Nike shoe called "CB4."
• Barkley has made numerous donations to the Auburn University Foundation, the Cornerstone Schools in Alabama, Leeds High School (his alma mater), Macedonia Baptist Church (Leeds, AL) and the Minority Health & Research Center at UAB Birmingham.