Scoreboard Update Anchor
After 14 years in television, I’m excited to jump to the radio side of the business. I have always been a jock at heart, and my love of sports developed at an early age when I would play three sports a day – football, basketball and baseball – with my brother and his friends in the neighborhood we grew up in back in Farmington Hills, Michigan. I played hoops and softball through grade school and high school and knew I wanted to follow the sports broadcasting career path before college. I cut my teeth working for the Sports Information department at the University of Michigan when I wasn’t playing rugby and softball, and was lucky enough to serve as the student assistant for the Fab Five. Let’s not talk about how that all turned out.
My career began right out of college – covering the hated Michigan State Spartans in the George Perles and Jud Heathcote days. I then took a job working for the NFL bringing a team back to Cleveland, went to Empire Sports Network in Buffalo, back to Cleveland to work for Fox Sports Net, then out to Seattle for the weekend anchor job on FSN Northwest. We also broadcast the Detroit Sports Report from that studio, which was bizarre but fun to finally cover my hometown teams. I had some great experiences along the way. I was the Sabres beat reporter in Buffalo in 1999, the season they went to the Stanley Cup Finals and lost to the Dallas Stars – that was the infamous Brett Hull skate in the crease “no goal” winner in triple overtime. I also covered Lou Piniella’s tenure in Seattle with the Mariners.
But by far the most memorable years of my career have come in Chicago. I had covered some of the great teams here as they came through the towns in which I previously worked, and feel fortunate every day to have landed here. I spent time covering every team in town in my 4 plus years with Comcast SportsNet. The Sox World Series run was the most exciting event I have ever covered, as a fan and broadcaster, and I enjoyed the Bulls playoff appearances and the Blackhawks resurgence immensely.
Now I’m having fun keeping Danny Mac, Spiegel and company on their toes – while the teams in town keep us on ours.
