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1975 World Series

This was the only World Series broadcast for Stockton, who would become a prominent national sportscaster for such networks as CBS, Fox, and TNT.

Albert Adomah

On 6 October 2009, it was announced that football commentator John Motson had sponsored Adomah at Barnet.

Bill Harrington

William "Bill" T. Harrington (born September 29, 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, died February 14, 1998 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American sportscaster, children's television host, and news reporter for WHDH and TV and WCVB-TV in Boston.

Bill Weir

Weir began his career in 1991 as a general assignment reporter and weekend sportscaster at KAAL in Austin, Minnesota.

Bob Hogue

Hogue was the lead sportscaster with three #1-rated news stations: KWWL-TV in Waterloo, Iowa and the Iowa Television Network (1979–1984), KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California (1984–1988), and KHON-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii (1988–1999).

Carillo

Mary Carillo (born 1957), an American writer, sportscaster, and former women's tennis player

Carson Graham Secondary School

Jason Lee, former sportscaster for VTV (now BCCTV) and CTV Sportsnet (now Rogers Sportsnet)

Christine Larsen

Larsen is the sister of sportscaster and fellow Olympian Karin Larsen, who covered Larsen's medal-winning performance for CBC News.

CHRO-TV

Ottawa Senators Hockey (20 regular-season games a year of the Canadian capital city's NHL team, which were usually, but not always, broadcast on Thursday evenings) - with Dean Brown as play-by-play announcer and Gord Wilson as commentator.

Curling on TSN

Other broadcasters TSN have used for curling include Rod Black, John Wells, and Glenn Healy.

Dan Hoard

Dan Hoard is a radio sportscaster who calls games for the Cincinnati Bengals with Dave Lapham.

Dave Jageler

Before working as a full time baseball announcer, Jageler worked in Boston and Charlotte, North Carolina as a sportscaster, co-hosting talk shows and doing play by play of various sports, including fill-in work on the Boston Celtics radio network and serving as the team's PA announcer during part of the 2002–03 NBA season.

Golden Choice

Noted ABC sportscaster Jim McKay said of the book: "there are more good stories in horse racing than in any other sport. This is one of them."

Greg Lloyd, Sr.

He is also well known for using an expletive in a nationally televised interview with NBC's Jim Gray after Pittsburgh defeated the Indianapolis Colts in the 1995 AFC Championship.

Hap Glaudi

Lloyd Alfred "Hap" Glaudi (November 7, 1912–December 29, 1989) was lead sportscaster for New Orleans CBS affiliate WWL-TV.

Hiroyuki Yabe

As a sportscaster on TV Asahi's program "Yabecchi FC," he interviewed soccer players Ronaldinho and Alessandro Del Piero.

Jamal Anderson

From mid-August to late-October 2009, Jamal appeared as a regular phone-in guest on "Morency" on Hardcore Sports Radio (HSR) to recap/discuss the week that was and the week that was coming up in the NFL with Gabriel Morency and Cam Stewart.

James Lang

Jim Laing, Canadian play-by-play sportscaster for the Boston Bruins

James Peterson

Jim Petersen (born 1962), American basketball player and sportscaster

Jeff Phelps

He then had a five year stint as a sportscaster on KJAC in Beaumont, Texas.

Jeremy St. Louis

The Fox Sports World Report re-launched as the new Fox Soccer Report with St. Louis, Carlos Machado, Derek Taylor and Mitch Peacock.

John Cerutti

After his playing career, he went into broadcasting and started doing Blue Jays games alongside Brian Williams on CBC before becoming a TV analyst for the team's new flagship station, Rogers Sportsnet.

John R. Evans

Then, after a successful internship, he went on to become the sportscaster at WJET-TV in Erie.

Keith Larson

During the 2010 Republican presidential primary for the 8th congressional district Larson feuded with both Tim D'Annunzio (R) and Harold Johnson (R).

Ken Singleton

After retiring as a baseball player, Singleton began his broadcasting career as a sportscaster for WJZ-TV in Baltimore in the middle 1980s and, has worked for TSN (The Sports Network) as a television color commentator and as a radio color commentator on Montreal Expos broadcasts and as a color commentator for Fox Sports.

Kevin Sylvester

From 1999 to 2006 he was a popular sportscaster for national radio sports on CBC Radio, and anchored the radio coverage for four Olympic Games.

KQTV

Gordie Hershiser, brother of former Cy Young Award winner Orel Hershiser, was a sportscaster at this station; he followed longtime sports director John Baccala.

Leahey

Kanoa Leahey, Hawaiian Sportscaster/Sports Director for the KHON-TV Honolulu Fox Affiliate

Live and Sweaty

A sports news segment was presented by ABC sportscaster Karen Tighe.

Mallika Bajaj

Bajaj has also appeared as a sportscaster at the 2010 Australian Open tennis tournament, followed by a broadcast of the Australian Football League (AFL), and she has written for Advantage Tennis.

Marinello

Vince Marinello, a sportscaster formerly featured on WWL radio and on WDSU television in New Orleans, Louisiana

Matt Loughlin

Matt Loughlin is an American sportscaster, and is the current radio play-by-play voice of the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League on WFAN, where he is partnered with commentator Sherry Ross.

Norberto Longo

Norberto Longo (February 15, 1942 - April 19, 2003) was a Spanish-language sportscaster in the United States.

Rafael Bracero

Having become WAPA's top sportscaster, Bracero then took over the transmissions of BSN basketball games (which he shared with Manolo Rivera Morales and Fufi Santori), most of the boxing telecasts, MLB baseball games and football games.

Rendez-vous '87

Carling O'Keefe Breweries assumed advertising rights for the telecasts and the normal host(s) for Hockey Night in Canada in 1987, rookie Ron MacLean and Dave Hodge (before his late season firing) were replaced by Brian Williams.

Roopville, Georgia

Legendary Sportscaster Keith Jackson, known to many as "the voice of college football," was born in Roopville.

Sportsnet Radio

Rogers also operates the Sportsnet Radio Network (previously known as The Fan Radio Network), which is a syndication service distributing, among other programs, Toronto Blue Jays baseball, Prime Time Sports and the daily short-form feature Grapeline with Don Cherry and Brian Williams.

Steve Inskeep

His first professional experience in radio was a stint as a sportscaster at WMKY-FM in Morehead.

Terry Fox Award

The selection committee, that included Fox's brother, Darrell, sportscaster Brian Williams, former-Olympian and VANOC board member Charmaine Crooks and former rower Tricia Smith, originally planned to choose only one recipient but felt both athletes' stories were so compelling that they decided to honour both.

The Magic of Thinking Big

The legendary American football coach, and sportscaster - Lou Holtz mentions that this book helped him create his lifelong goals list.

Tracy Wolfson

Tracy Wolfson (born March 17, 1975) is an American sportscaster for CBS Sports.

WAER

It is best known, however, for its sports staff, which has produced the likes of Bob Costas, Marv Albert, Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, Bill Roth, Ian Eagle, Brian Higgins, Dick Stockton and many others.

Wally Dallenbach, Jr.

Without a ride, Dallenbach took up TV commentating in 2001, covering the NASCAR races for NBC and TNT alongside Allen Bestwick (later Bill Weber, then Adam Alexander) and Benny Parsons (later Kyle Petty).

WBGI

Over the years, WCVI became one of the top stations in Western Pennsylvania, and best known for fostering the careers of local sportscaster legends Kevin Harrison and Jack Benedict.

WFTL

In October, 1986 sportscaster Curt Gowdy sold the station to J.J. Taylor Companies Inc. of North Dartmouth, Mass., for an undisclosed price.

WZKY

In 1967, Bob Harris, now voice of the Duke Blue Devils, offered to take over the job of announcing West Stanly High School football games for WZKY, though his only experience had been as a student announcer for Albemarle High School (North Carolina) Albemarle High School basketball.


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