I’m afraid that the career I love might be hazardous to my health. That’s because every year during basketball season I put on 25-30 lbs of extra weight. I’ve always been able to lose most of that extra baggage once the season is over, but each year that scale tips to a slightly higher number and the process of losing it becomes more difficult.… Read More

Part of becoming a great broadcaster is having a great vocabulary and finding ways to vary your verbs and nouns. That is why a regular feature on this site will be “Announcer Alterations” where we take short clip 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

Conversation with sports publicist and owner of Publiside, Gail Sideman.… Read More

Driving home from a weekend road trip, I found myself reflecting back on one of my first assignments. I was working my first job out of college in small-town Western Iowa. I was sent to interview the winners of the 4-H Rabbit Show at the local county fair. I wasn’t happy because — with my inflated sense of importance —I believed that I was above such nonsense.… 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 clip 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

A major part of why I posted my Blueprint to Broadcasting Success was to be helpful to other broadcasters. I also posted it — for somewhat selfish reasons — to hold myself accountable for putting in extra work to improve. To hold myself accountable, I’m going to post monthly updates. You’ll see how closely I stuck with the plan, the challenges faced, and how/if I’m hearing improvement in my self- critiques.… Read More

Jon Chelesnik, owner of STAA, joins the podcast to critique the play-by-play calls of legendary fictional announcer of the Cleveland Indians Harry Doyle.… Read More

Sportscasters covering small college or minor league teams all have one thing in common: lots of time spent on busses. Living in geographically isolated Aberdeen, South Dakota ,I’ve been on bus rides of more than 8 hours to Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Iowa, and Utah — just to name a few (I wrote about one of them here ).… Read More

Part of becoming a great broadcaster is having a great vocabulary and finding ways to vary your verbs and nouns. That is why a regular feature on this site will be “Announcer Alterations” where we take short clip 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

Last Sunday, I turned the dirty thirty. It’s the age you aren’t actually old, but people in their teens and twenties think you’re old. I’m one month away from finishing my 8th basketball season as a professional sportscaster and while there are still endless volumes of books that could be filled with all the stuff I don’t know, here are a few things I wished I had known coming out of school.… Read More