Opening Ceremonies for this year's Coventry Commonwealth Games are Friday night, 7:30 at the Roanoke Civic Center. The Games are bigger than ever now in their 19th year.

Athletes of all ages and abilities now have a record 58 sports from which to choose, thanks to continuing support of great sponsors and dedicated volunteers who were honored at tonight's reception.

Pete Lampman, Virginia Amateur Sports President - "The lifeblood of the Games and the organization, no question. You know it's a grassroots program, you know, five or six staff members, a couple part-time and then it's the volunteers."

Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn will speak at Friday night's Opening Ceremonies. This Fall, the former pro soccer player is launching Grassroot Soccer, a youth-led movement to end HIV and AIDS. And he's doing so in a unique way.

Ethan Zohn, Survivor: Africa Winner - "I'll be dribbling a soccer ball 550 miles from Boston to Washington, D.C. to help raise awareness and money for Grassroot Soccer. No help from anyone else, just me, the ball and Route 95 South."

Zohn plans to dribble 10-to-15 miles each day and estimates the journey will take about two months with a few rest days thrown in.

Zohn - "Originally I was like I'm going to go dribble the ball cross-country and be the first person, you know, in the world to do it. And then I'm like, well, the country's pretty big, you know."

Ethan's got a lot of well-wishers and not coincidentally, a lot are females. You can see Ethan up close and personal Friday night at Opening Ceremonies, 7:30, at the Roanoke Civic Center.