Category: Profile
Curt Smith, sports broadcast historian, profiles late Bob Wolff, former Senators announcer
Since baseball’s player-management lockout has temporarily chilled its “Hot Stove League,” we begin today a […]
Bengals’ Dan Hoard, 58, prepares for his huge day; Another Syracuse U sports voice makes good!
Cincinnati has had its beloved on-air personalities. Pioneer Red Barber was baseball’s first true, fundamentally […]
Beano Cook: After Iranian hostages were offered a lifetime MLB pass: “Haven’t they suffered enough?”
Want a cross of laughs and trenchant wit? Pick up, Haven’t they Suffered Enough? You […]
There might never be another Marty Glickman, an iconic voice, broadcast coach and sparkling athlete
Marty Glickman was a portrait of all-around greatness. They didn’t come any better. He […]
Author profiles Joe Nuxhall, Reds’ longtime radio analyst, who also pitched for Cincinnati at age 15
Get the Kleenex. You’ll need ‘em, that’s a promise. And, if you don’t use […]
NBC’s last season of Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and Michele Tafoya? If so, it started brilliantly
The 2021 NFL season kicked off with a thriller, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated […]
Tracy Wolfson knew as a child that she wanted to be on-air; A mother of three, there were no shortcuts
She’s firm, disciplined and determined. And she’s a mother of three. Football fans know […]
Gary Thorne says he’s had talks with ESPN about NHL; Calls the late Mets’ voice Bob Murphy his mentor
The man is missed. If you’d hear him, you’d likely identify his voice immediately. […]
CBS’ Amanda Balionis sidestepped golf growing up and is now one of the game’s most visible reporters
“No man is going to be criticized to the level a woman would. It […]
Eddie Doucette, Voice of the Bucks for their first 16 seasons, reflects on Milwaukee’s ’71 title team and more
I hadn’t talked with him in a score of years. When I reached Eddie […]
Marv Albert, the chronology of an on-air legend: His rise, fall and amazing rebirth from the ashes of a scandal
Marv Albert’s career started when he was a teen in the late 1950s shadowing […]
NBC and Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, once a full-time lawyer, likes Washington as his surprise team
Thanks to his passion and drive to uncover the story, Mike Florio, a one-time […]