Dear Coaches,
As a sportscaster I truly respect your job. I see the long hours and late nights you put in watching film. I’ve been with you on long bus rides to remote locations when I’m sure you’d rather be with your friends and family. I’m a firsthand witness of the effort you put into teaching young men and women how to become better people through the games they love.… Read More
A major part of why I posted my Blueprint to Broadcasting Success was so it could be helpful to other broadcasters. I also posted it for selfish reasons to hold myself accountable for putting in the extra work to get better. As part of that accountability I’m going to post monthly on how closely I stuck with the plan, the challenges faced, and how/ if I’m hearing improvement in my self critiques.… 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
One of the main reasons I started this website was to hold myself accountable as I strive to improve in the art of sportscasting. The thought was that if I publicly state my goals and detailed a plan on how to accomplish those goals, it would add positive pressure to follow through. I’m happy to say it’s working!… Read More
I chat with North Texas Womens Basketball Broadcaster John Liddle. We talk about:
*Gambling on himself by leaving a full time job for a large market.… Read More
Last week was challenging both professionally and personally. My schedule included a full load of sales work during the week, a road high school game Friday evening, and a 7-hour overnight drive to Whitewater, Wisconsin, to call a Morningside College game early Saturday afternoon. While this schedule was a grind, there is nothing unusual about it.… Read More
Over the weekend, I called two football games: one for a local high school and one for Morningside College. The two games had one common thread; both were basically over by halftime, and in the case of the Morningside game, even sooner. What was unique was that in one weekend I got to call a blowout game from both sides of the coin.… Read More
I chat with brand new Kansas Jayhawks play-by-play man Brian Hanni!… Read More
I just completed my first week at ESPN Radio 1570 in Yankton, S.D. It’s been an adjustment, but an easy fit so far. First and foremost, my co-workers have been great and the station culture seems to be very laid-back. Secondly, the station owner Jeff is a former co-owner of KDSN in Denison, Iowa, where I worked my first job out of school.… Read More
A major part of why I posted my Blueprint to Broadcasting Success was so it could be helpful to other broadcasters. I also posted it for selfish reasons to hold myself accountable for putting in the extra work to get better. As part of that accountability I’m going to post monthly on how closely I stuck with the plan, the challenges faced, and how/ if I’m hearing improvement in my self critiques.… Read More