Tag: Curt Gowdy
BRENT MUSBURGER DOMINATED THE NFL IN THE 80’S; BRENT AND JIMMY THE GREEK BECAME GREAT RIVALS IN THE BOOTH NATIONALLY
Why Did It Take 50 Years for Brent to get NFL’s Pete Rozelle Award? Just […]
The popular New England sportscaster, Fred Hoey was beloved; Entertained many; He died in 1949
To celebrate the 2025 season, we continue Curt Smith’s series, Voices of Summer, on baseball’s […]
Profiling Voices of many; Bob Costas still does baseball beautifully on MLB Network
The play-by-players on national television: The early years – Another generation Ray Scott – […]
A look at 5 ex-network TV voices; all talented, be they melodic, edgy, warm or classy
I heard Dick Vitale the other night. He can still teach the basics of the […]
Does South Florida care enough about College Basketball? Gowdy told me hoops was his best sport
South Florida experienced its most stimulating week of college basketball since Ponce de León landed […]
The accomplishments of the greats and the voices who covered them; Barber, Cosell, Scully and others
This Week in History 11/14 – 11/18 As the baseball award season approaches, let’s look […]
Visiting the past; Remembering a random number of deceased voices, local and national play-by-players
Dick Enberg (1939-2008) Dick was a Midwesterner and a child of Finish parents. The […]
Curt Gowdy: Rise and fall of the dominant play-by-player of his day; The ‘Uncle Al Michaels of his time’
Marty Glickman: “Curt Gowdy was one of the most generous men in the business.” […]
Curt Gowdy: Tutored by Mel Allen, he owned network TV play-by-play, from the 60s through much of the 70s
HISTORIAN CURT SMITH TAKES US THROUGH THE GOLD YEARS OF PLAY-BY-PLAYER CURT GOWDY – PART […]
Tony Kubek, 86, a longtime Yankee and NBC MLB broadcaster, lives quietly with family in Wisconsin
A quarter-century ago, network television weekly ferried baseball across the land. Today streaming, cable, and […]
Hawks’ voice, veteran Steve Holman, is having fun as the club is now Atlanta’s center of attention
Steve Holman has been at it for some 37 seasons. He hasn’t missed a […]
Leading network voices: Their early heroes, idols, influences, mentors and professional role models
I reached out to a renowned group of network voices who for decades shepherded millions […]