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Election hero Steve Kornacki to stay on for season to break down the NFL playoff picture [UPDATED]After a successful debut on Football Night in America, Steve Kornacki will return to the NFL playoff Big Board for the remainder of the season for NBC. He won’t be needed for over at the political desk for any recounts or vote tallies. Instead, we’ll get to see the man in khakis tell us how the New ...

Doc Emrick, champion of vocabulary with an infectious passion for hockey, retiresHockey coverage tends to split in two directions. On the one side are those who either think hockey never advanced out of 1976, or seriously wish it didn’t, and try to accentuate and focus on the “crazies in a cage” aspect. This is your Jack Edwards/Mike Milbury school. What is it about Boston? Oh, ...

You REALLY Don’t Want Vin Scully On TwitterIt’s rare that Twitter lights up in positivity, aside from baseball writers getting wind of a new Springsteen album. It’s a hellscape for the damned, and we’ve known that forever. But there is no dark space filled with the most vile evil that light cannot penetrate. U2 has a good song and a half som...

Yankee Voices Sterling & Waldman Have Nothing To Talk About — That's Sheltering In Place, Suzyn

From the window of his living room overlooking the Hudson River, John Sterling can see the George Washington Bridge if he cranes his neck far to the left. No matter how hard he tries, however, he can’t quite see where he would really like to be, which is in the radio booth at Yankee Stadium....

Bill Walton Learned How To Enjoy Baseball In Real Time

On the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, former NBA superstar Bill Walton made his way into the broadcast booth of NBC Sports Chicago to be the color commentator for a White Sox-Angels game. Walton was his usual self whenever he spoke, taking quantum leaps from topic to topic as he transitioned between...

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AHL Broadcast Becomes Awkward After Play-By-Play Guy Learns On Air That His Color Commentator Lost His Coaching Job

During a lull in play between the Rochester Americans and the Providence Bruins, longtime play-by-play broadcaster Don Stevens did what any good announcer would do and decided to fill the moment with some mindless banter. Stevens gave his color commentator, Ric Seiling, an opportunity to talk about ...

Hawk Harrelson To Remain Face Of White Sox Even After Retirement

For years, broadcaster Hawk Harrelson has been the face of the Chicago White Sox. Players have come and players have gone, the Sox have been up and they’ve been down, but even more than a Mark Buehrle cutter or a Frank Thomas home run, Harrelson’s unique passion and commitment have defined the South...

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by Timothy Burke|Giannis Antetokounmpo

|02/20/2017

Gus Johnson Has A Sense Of Humor About His Failed Stint Announcing Soccer

When Fox won the rights to broadcast the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, they embarked on an ambitious plan: Gus Johnson—the broadcaster mostly known for his Gusgasms during March Madness—would be their lead announcer. He started announcing some MLS games, and then Fox threw him directly into the fire and...

by Kevin Draper|gus johnson

|10/29/2015

Fast Company has a cool slideshow of the notebooks of Premier League broadcasters. They are very colorful and beautiful, and while broadcasters still say dumb things, after looking at these you can’t say they don’t prepare. [Fast Company]...

by Kevin Draper|soccer

|05/15/2015

Argentine Soccer Broadcaster Is A Rollercoaster Of Emotions

Make sure you have turned YouTube's closed captioning on, and then watch this glorious video of an Argentine second division match from February. When Talleres de Córdoba scores in the 89th minute, the homer broadcaster sings a lyrical description straight out of Galeano (well, not quite). When Almi...

by Kevin Draper|media meltdowns

|11/29/2014

Every Univision ¡GOOOL! Of The World Cup, Ranked By Length

We've been fans of ESPN's excellent World Cup coverage, but for your money's worth it's tough to beat the live match broadcasts on Univision. Here's every goal scored thus far in the World Cup, stitched together into one very long ¡GOOOOOOOOOL!. Below you'll find a chart ranking every goal of the to...

by Timothy Burke|2014 world cup

|07/12/2014

The Doc Emrick Soundboard Is Here

Last year we brought you this list of terms NBC hockey announcer Mike "Doc" Emrick used to describe passes in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, and then we set them to music. Now we're putting the power of Doc in your hands, with a clickable soundboard featuring 121 different clips of the legendary b...

by Timothy Burke|doc emrick

|05/21/2014

The Year In Hawk Harrelson Being Awful

First, start playing this video put together by Awful Announcing, containing nearly 10 minutes of baseball's biggest homer being audibly sad and frustrated when things don't go the White Sox's way. Then leave it on in the background and go read the best thing you'll see all day....

by Barry Petchesky|hawk harrelson

|10/09/2013

It's Mostly The Voice

The great John Facenda. ...

by Alex Belth|John Facenda

|08/06/2013

Here's Vin Scully's Story About His Job Interview With Branch Rickey

Vin Scully's a priceless living baseball artifact for myriad reasons. Not only does he call games in an accessible and enjoyable way—especially for those of us on the East Coast mellowing out after a long day—but he's a constant source of fantastic stories about his early days in the Dodgers organ...

by Timothy Burke|vin scully

|04/16/2013

What It's Like To Call A Baseball Season, According To Mets Broadcaster Howie Rose

Mets radio broadcaster Howie Rose has a new book out, Put it in the Book: A Half Century of Mets Mania, written with Phil Pepe. Rose talked to us recently about what it's like to call games on the radio, and the Mets in particular....

by Jack Dickey|broadcasters

|04/13/2013

Gus Johnson Will Be The Voice Of Soccer, Even If He Has To Ruin The Champions League To Get There

Goal-line technology? FIFA corruption? Landon Donovan’s magical mystery tour? America's biggest soccer controversy is, unexpectedly, Gus Johnson. Upon the announcement that Fox would use Screamin’ Gus as its lead announcer for the 2018 World Cup, public reaction sorted itself into two extremist camp...

by Colin McGowan|gus johnson

|04/03/2013

Bill Raftery Asks Jay Bilas If He's Ever Been Ridden

If you dig those awkward silences, this one's for you: a discussion about "riding the hot hand" during last night's Notre Dame-Pitt game led to Bill Raftery springing a loaded question on Jay Bilas. Nervous chuckling, and a "moving right along" segue followed....

by Barry Petchesky|Media Meltdowns

|02/19/2013

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