Listening to the NFL radio broadcasts when out and about? Working Niners games in Northern California, Greg Papa has always been one of my favorites. He always sounds like he’s reporting with an ...
Editor’s Note: Jake Baskin is a dedicated student of play-by-play and sports broadcast history. He has a particular passion for hockey. Jake assessed NHL broadcasters and stacked up the sport’s ...
CBS the doubleheader and Fox the singleton this weekend. Al Michaels won’t be on any of the championship game. Didn’t expect so! Two of the most improved announcers voices are CBS’ Spero Dedes and ...
Four decades ago, most of the sports television universe consisted of the three New York-based networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC. Sounds very simple, right? Exclusivity was a very big deal to each of ...
Top 20 Sideline Reporters All-Time: (Editor’s Note: Marcus Gronauer spent a chunk of time doing a multi-part series on sideline reporters. He studied the history of sideline reporting which dates back ...
In this third installment in our series, Sports Broadcast Journal continues our journey down memory lane. Today, we shift our focus to the Top 20 all-time announcer, football cards. In our next ...
Fifty years ago this past February, Bill White was introduced to the media as the third member of the New York Yankees broadcast team. He joined Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer. In the story that Maury ...
in Spanish, in rival cities, Rickie Ricardo broadcasts the games of the New York Yankees and the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles. His fiancée, Maria Berral, is also heard on the Philly ...
It was announced late yesterday that Phyllis George passed on Thursday night. She was 70 years old. A former Miss America, George was the first woman who was prominently and regularly visible on ...
The Pro Football Hall of Fame doesn’t grant the Pete Rozelle Media Award to just anyone. Think of the many qualified network broadcasters, so identified with the NFL, who haven’t been honored; Howard ...
President John F. Kennedy was killed by a sniper’s bullet in Dallas,Texas, 50 years ago this past November 22nd. It occurred late on a Friday morning. Two days later, the NFL played its full schedule ...
Sports have taken hits through the years. Whether it’s been gambling, cheating, drugs or work stoppages, many root causes have been from within. You might say, ‘I’ve met the enemy, it is I.” Not this ...