broadcasters Stories - Team Speed Kills
Sprints Thinks Gameday Will Be All Tebow, All the Time // 08.26.09
Herbie sounds smitten. Kirk Herbstreit remembers watching Tim Tebow the first time several years ago. I said to (ESPN's Chris) Fowler, we were standing on the sidelines: 'It's like Roy Hobbs or something from the movie The Natural.' I'd never seen anything like it. And it'd just been a love...
Guys That Aren't Broadcasting College Football, But Should Be
After suffering, and I mean suffering, through Thom Brenneman's horrific call of the BCS Championship game eariler this year I thought "Goddammit, there's gotta be someone better than this assclown who can call this game." Actually, I think I yelled it. At the top of my lungs. In a crowded bar. I...
Len Kasper Extended Through 2011
This isn't linked yet on the Cubs website, but here is the info from an upcoming press release: The Chicago Cubs today announced television play-by-play broadcaster Len Kasper has received a contract extension through the 2011 season. "I am thrilled to extend what has been, for me, an...
Former Panthers broadcaster set to leave Thailand
One-time Florida play-by-play guru Jiggs McDonald and his wife Marilyn will finally be departing a tense period of civil unrest in Thailand. "The McDonalds have been isolated in a downtown Bangkok hotel since Wednesday when thousands of pro-democracy protesters shut down the two...
Thoughts That Keep Me Company When I'm Up Late At Night
I caught the end of the most recent Sharks-Predators game on the radio, thus entering the Jeremy Roenick Experience as he sat in with Dan Rusanowsky and Jamie Baker for the third period. It's too bad there's really no room for him in either San José's television or broadcast booth, as he's an...
Fortunate Son
I was at a family gathering yesterday afternoon, thus had to catch the beginning of the Sharks-Predators game on the radio. It reminded me of a few things.Given how the NHL, unlike MLB and the NFL and the NBA, realizes the advisability of not trying to soak every possible dollar out of its fans it...
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