May 2016

Eliminating clichés is something we all strive to do. I’m writing this article on Memorial Day, and in honor of the holiday designed to honor military members who died fighting for our country, I’m going to make the case that comparing sports to war may be the single dumbest of these clichés.

To illustrate my point, read this excerpt from a Daily Mail article where a WWII survivor describes the storming of Normandy Beach:

For Harold Baumgarten, a 19 year-old Army private from New York, the invasion started badly and quickly got worse.… Read More

We are moving up the release of the latest podcast because the last day to sign up for the NSMA Awards Weekend is June 1st.… Read More

Part of becoming a great broadcaster is having a great vocabulary and finding ways to vary your verbiage. That is why a regular feature on this site will be “Announcer Alterations” where we take short clips of pre-existing play-by-play synced to video and come up with five different ways to call the same sequence of events.… Read More

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I recently received an email from Joe Van Amburg, a sportscaster from Kansas, who had the following question:

What books are in your broadcast library? I don’t just mean the books on sportscasting, but also books about the sports you cover that have material to enhance your broadcast. I am always looking for new sources of information.… Read More

Conversation with Zach McCrite from “The Podcast About Sports Radio.”… Read More

We are about a month away from the NSMA Awards Weekend and One Day Ticket to Sportscasting Success 2016 in Salisbury, North Carolina. I wrote several weeks back about why you should attend this weekend if you’re a serious sportscaster. Here’s a guide for the event, based on my experiences and mistakes.

When You Should Arrive: I am arriving the afternoon of Friday June 17th to have plenty of time to relax and get settled in.… Read More

Part of becoming a great broadcaster is having a great vocabulary and finding ways to vary your verbiage. That is why a regular feature on this site will be “Announcer Alterations” where we take short clips of pre-existing play-by-play synced to video and come up with five different ways to call the same sequence of events.… Read More

We’ve had enough deep thoughts over the last few weeks. So instead of being serious today, let’s gather around the proverbial campfire so I can tell you the story of my nightmare trip to Manhattan, Kansas. This story includes a 90-degree gym, an ice storm, live bats, and a blessed broken-down bus. Let’s do this!

A little background before we start.… Read More

Conversation with Kevin Kugler of Westwood One.… Read More