ESPN announces our new feature documentary The U

via Tom Jicha at the Sun Sentinel:

The University of Miami's much celebrated and oft criticized football program is going to receive more high profile praise and scrutiny.

ESPN announced at the press tour that it has hired film-makers Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben, who collaborated on Cocaine Cowboys, to produce a documentary, The U, which will focus on the program's triumphs, tragedies and tumult.

The special, which is in the early stages of production, will air in September 2009 under the network's 30 for 30 umbrella.