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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.


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Adam Amin

Amin began his professional career at KUOO and KUQQ in Spirit Lake, Iowa, serving as sports director and host of a morning talk show.

Alan Ashby

Following his playing career, he moved into broadcasting as he telecast HSE Southwestern Conference Baseball in 1990 and served as Sports Director and Anchor for KHTV Channel 39 Houston from 1990 to 1992.

Andy Slater

Slater started his broadcasting career at Miami Killian Senior High, where he was Sports Director for his junior and senior year, and at Franklin Pierce College, located in Rindge, New Hampshire.

Bernie Robbins Stadium

In May 2008, WCAU-TV sports director and former NFL player Vai Sikahema accepted an open challenge from former MLB player Jose Canseco to fight him in a celebrity boxing match for $5,000.

Bob Lobel

A native of Apple Creek, Ohio, Lobel joined the station as weekend sports anchor in 1979 and was promoted to weekday anchor and sports director in 1981.

Fulvio Saini

He currently lives in Muggiò and plays the profession of insurance and care the youth club of A.C. Monza Brianza 1912, and the amateur club of GES Monza, which is sports director.

Gary Radnich

From 1982-1985, Radnich served as the sports director at WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio, where he also called Ohio State Buckeyes football games.

KCWE

Len Dawson - sports director emeritus; also sports reporter and fill-in sports anchor

KTUC

Sports were always huge at KTUC, and its 1970s sports director Rory Markas (now deceased) went to the 2002 World Series as voice of the Angels.

Lars Christopher Vilsvik

In November 2009, Vilsvik was on trial for the Norwegian club Strømsgodset, and impressed the coach and sports director enough to get a three-year contract.

Leahey

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

Matt Fulks

Fulks started his journalism career while attending Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, as a play-by-play broadcaster on radio, a producer for WSMV-TV, sports director for WAKM radio and a sports writer with the Review-Appeal.

Mita Klima

At the beginning of the 1930s, Klima took a job as a sports director at a golf club at Berlin-Wannsee, the Golf- und Landclub Berlin-Wannsee.

Nick Nickson

A native of Rochester, New York, Nickson attended Ithaca College, where he served as the Sports Director and play-by-play for the school's radio station, WICB.

Niels-Christian Holmstrøm

Niels-Christian Holmstrøm (born 23 February 1947) is a Danish former football player, manager, chief consultant in Team Danmark and sports director of Danish football club F.C. Copenhagen.

Odise Roshi

Uwe Stöver, the sports director of FSV Frankfurt, stated that Roshi has demonstrated his qualities in the previous season in the Bundesliga for Köln and that he is convinced that Roshi's addition will bring in the offensive play of FSV Frankfurt.

Sage Steele

Steele worked at ABC affiliate WFTS in Tampa, Florida, from 1998 to 2001, where she was a sports reporter with former WFTS sports director and current SportsCenter host Jay Crawford.

Sam Nover

He worked at WIIC-TV / WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh from 1970 until his retirement in 2001 as the Sports Director and principal Sports Anchor.

San Juan Natatorium

San Juan's Mayor Jorge Santini opened the new roofed San Juan Natatorium, developed by San Juan Sports Director María Elena Batista on December 15, 2006.

SC Partizan-Teleoptik

In early '90s, general secretary Žarko Zečević, sports director Nenad Bjeković, stadium director Aleksandar Stepanović and former coach Ivica Osim have decided to find the most ideal place to build a sports center.

Sead Kajtaz

After retiring, he kept linked with FK Velež Mostar where he held many different positions, from president, sports director, coach and, currently, assistant manager.

Sébastien Frey

In the battle, Frey gets a blunt trauma to the tibia that does stay out of the playing fields for a few months, forcing the sports director purple Pantaleo Corvino to return to the market to hire a replacement, then signed Bogdan Lobonț.

Stefan Frei

Stefan is second-cousin to the recently retired captain of, and all-time leading scorer for, the Swiss national football team, Alexander Frei, an accomplished striker twice voted Swiss player of the year, who used to play for Axpo Super League club FC Basel and is now the sports director for FC Luzern.

Tim Roye

Following his graduation from Utica College in New York, Roye spent eight years (1978–86) as the sports director at Utica's WIBXWNYZ radio.

Valeri Bojinov

Bojinov was discovered at the age of 14 by Lecce sports director Pantaleo Corvino, while playing for Pietà Hotspurs, and signed for just 30,000,000 ITL (around €15,000).

Will Manso

He was promoted to the position of Sports Director at WPLG in 2007, after his predecessor, former Miami Dolphin Jimmy Cefalo, had resigned from WPLG to manage a wine business.

WKRK-FM

Also on weekdays, WEWS-TV sports director Andy Baskin and Fox Sports Ohio personality Jeff Phelps host the midday program Baskin & Phelps; Adam "The Bull" Gerstenhaber, formerly of WFAN/New York, and former Ohio State safety Dustin Fox host Bull & Fox weekday afternoons; and Ken Carman, formerly of WARF/Akron, hosts the weekday evening show.

WMCN-TV

On September 10 of that year, WMCN announced that it would produce three new original weekly series: A New View, an issues-oriented show hosted by former WTXF-TV (channel 29) personality Dawn Strensland, Tolly's Awesome Friends, a series centered on noteworthy locals hosted by ex-WTXF sports director Don Tollefson, and Philly Sports Spotlight, a locally-focused series hosted by former WPVI-TV (channel 6) sports anchor Phil Andrews.