Last week was a slow one calling games. I was originally scheduled for a DIII college game Wednesday and a high school game on Friday. The college game went off without a hitch, but on Friday as the snow began to fall, I was informed that the game was canceled due to weather.

With all the free time, I was able to relax, get to the gym a few times, and spend my birthday evening out on the town with my wife.… Read More

Episode 82 features Chad Abbott the Program Director for KFAN in Minneapolis.… Read More

When I was moving from Iowa to South Dakota for a radio job, I arranged to move into an apartment with a coworker, who was also starting at the same time. Prior to moving in together, we had a phone conversation getting to know each other, discussing who was bringing what furniture, who had extra dishes, and eventually we talked about who would pay what bills.… Read More

Last week I wrote about refocusing on improving as a play-by-play broadcaster through regular focused practice. Finding ways to prevent tripping over the same stumbling blocks that set me off track before will be critical for success. The two biggest adjustments are:

Working Around A New Lifestyle: When I started the Blueprint process in 2015, I would do many of the activities in the evening.… Read More

This episode is with Len Clark, the former Indiana Sportscaster of the Year for the NCAA DI Evansville Aces.… Read More

I don’t make new year’s resolutions. If something is worth doing, there’s no point in waiting for an arbitrary date. Waiting for a specific moment to do something to make yourself better is wasting the time leading up to that point. The whole idea of new year, new you is generally just an excuse for undisciplined people to feel good about themselves for a few weeks before falling back into their old habits.… Read More

I hope everybody reading this had a very happy holiday season. For the first time since the move to Minnesota I was able to travel home to Nebraska, and it was great being around family and friends. One evening sitting around the table, my father’s Facebook memories on his phone showed an old post talking about my top five in-person sports moments,  and he asked me if they had changed.

Episode 80 features David J. Halberstam the owner of sportsbroadcastjournal.com, a website dedicated to in depth journalism covering the sportscasting industry.… Read More

Since I moved to the Twin Cities, I’ve paid close attention to the broadcast schedules of broadcasters who have come through the area to play one of our local teams. I try to take advantage of being in a market with four major pro sports teams and a power five college team by meeting as many fellow broadcasters as I can as they come through town.… Read More

Let’s pretend for a moment that I invested in a pile of lumber, a state-of-the-art set of tools, and an expert craftsman to guide me through my project. If I then left the lumber under a tarp, the tools in the garage, and never followed up with the craftsman, whose fault is it if I never build anything?… Read More