August 2016

Every year on New Year’s Day, people across the country make resolutions of things they want to achieve over the next 365 days. Unless you’re a baseball broadcaster, the fall is more or less the start of the new sportscasting year. That is why — after an eleven day vacation followed by the craziness of county fair week — (only Midwesterners will truly understand), it’s time to set goals for my upcoming season on both a professional and personal basis.… Read More

I visit with the Voice of University of South Dakota Womens Basketball John Thayer.… Read More

I’m posting these updates a day after they actually occurred. This account took place on Tuesday, August 9th. For a recap of what I’m doing go here.

Everyone knows that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and it’s who you know, not what you know that counts. With all those cliches in mind we started off our Tuesday before leaving Kansas City by meeting Joe Van Amburg, the very first person to reach out to me through this website, for breakfast at Succotash, a small cafe in Midtown KC.… Read More

I’m posting these updates a day after they actually occurred. This account took place on Monday, August 8th. For a recap of what I’m doing go here.

Day two started off the way I wish I could start every Monday, by sleeping in until 10:00 AM. We left the Ambassador Hotel in Salina, Kansas behind schedule, but before we left town we stopped for a quick tour of the Rocking M Radio Studios.… Read More

I’m posting these updates a day after they actually occurred. This account took place on Sunday, August 7th.

We began the Say The Damn Score World Tour with a bang! On Saturday, my fiancée and I drove to a small town lake house in South Central South Dakota. It was in the middle of nowhere, even by South Dakota standards, which means that the mob probably has bodies buried there.… Read More

The last two months have been a professional and personal whirlwind. Without being over dramatic it’s the only way I can think to describe it. I worked up the guts to propose to my beautiful girlfriend Sarah and she said yes. My station cluster lost a long drawn out bidding process for the rights to the team I’ve covered for the last five years.… Read More

I chat with Clemson University Mens Basketball broadcaster and IMG Network Manager Tony Castricone.… 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

Building this site has given me the opportunity to connect with many like-minded people who are passionate about the sportscasting industry. Most of these connections have been made via Twitter and email. That’s great, but it’s not the same as sharing food, drinks, and face time.

With this in mind, and several big life/career changes happening or coming up very soon, the timing worked perfectly for my fiancée and I (one of those life changes) to pile in the car and take a little vacation.… Read More