(Updated with clarifications to my hazy memories of the Brewers game in 1975, and adding my brush with history in 1973) Great. One of the most overused words in all of sports. Long ago I developed the opinion, my personal sensibility, that to say a player, for example, is “great” is to say they had…
Tuning in to summer PBP fun with the Colt 45s
It’s been a transition year-plus for yours truly (and you and yours, truly), so I haven’t shared or been active as “The Sports Guy” in a while. That doesn’t mean I’m not gearing up to crank it up post-COVID, and one (long) example is my “best of” reel for calling Redding Colt 45s baseball. There…
Warriors player leads peaceful Bay Area demonstration
From the Golden State Warriors comes some very cool video of the community coming together to march against brutality. Several members of the Warriors participated in the peaceful event in Oakland, organized by Warriors player Juan Toscano-Anderson and several of his friends. Five Warriors players, some with their families – Stephen Curry, Damion Lee, Kevon Looney,…
It’s about more than the horse: Ken Rudulph talks about doing his thing in sports and entertainment
Ken Rudulph admittedly was not a fan of horse racing when he took a job with the-then fledgling TVG Horse Racing Network. Fast forward more than two decades, and he has forged a career in, around and beyond the world of horse racing that makes him one of the truly coolest guys I’ve known in…
The voices have to work their way up, too: meet a future NHL broadcaster
Mike Benton has the polish of an NHL broadcaster, but just like the players whose games he calls, he has to earn his time on the ice at the top. These days – and since 2015 – he has been calling the play-by-play for one of the elite teams in the Canadian Hockey League’s Junior…
