Dietary Supplement Becomes Title Sponsor of Basketball’s 2011 Puerto Rico Tip-Off

Dietary supplement 5-hour Energy has partnered with ESPN to become the title sponsor of the 2011 Puerto Rico Tip-Off, here  an early-season men’s basketball tournament played at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in the cosmopolitan Hato Rey district of San Juan.

The 5-hour Energy Puerto Rico Tip-Off runs Thursday, therapy Friday and Sunday, stomach Nov. 17, 18 & 20, teams playing in the fifth-annual event are Alabama, Colorado, Iona, Maryland, Purdue, Temple, Western Michigan and Wichita State.

Lynn Petersmarck, 5-hour Energy advertising director, said: “Serving as the title sponsor provides us a great opportunity to reach a wide variety of college basketball fans.”

Dan Shoemaker, ERT vice president, collegiate development, added: “5-hour Energy’s sponsorship serves to strengthen an event that once again will entertain college sports fans from one of the great destinations in the Caribbean.”

Introduced, in 2004, 5-hour Energy is the original liquid energy shot. It contains a blend of B-vitamins and amino acids, zero sugar and four calories. It is available at retail outlets in the United States and Canada as well as throughout the U.K., Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and the Caribbean.