Listening to the NFL radio broadcasts when out and about? Working Niners games in Northern California, Greg Papa has always been one of my favorites. He always sounds like he’s reporting with an ...

At some point in the early 80s, I was at a private function at Madison Square Garden. Don Imus was there too and must have been drunk, stoned or both. Don didn’t know me from a hole in the wall when ...

Top 20 Sideline Reporters All-Time: (Editor’s Note: Marcus Gronauer spent a chunk of time doing a multi-part series on sideline reporters. He studied the history of sideline reporting which dates back ...

In this third installment in our series, Sports Broadcast Journal continues our journey down memory lane. Today, we shift our focus to the Top 20 all-time announcer, football cards. In our next ...

Fifty years ago this past February, Bill White was introduced to the media as the third member of the New York Yankees broadcast team. He joined Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer. In the story that Maury ...

So much of NFL Films’ history is about its captivating footage, the close-ups and the slomos of gridiron heroes fighting for every last yard. Yet, what resonates and rings in our ears are the great ...

Editor’s Note: Jake Baskin is a dedicated student of play-by-play and sports broadcast history. He has a particular passion for hockey. Jake assessed NHL broadcasters and stacked up the sport’s ...

Visser: When I asked then Patriots’ coach Chuck Fairbanks about one of his linebackers he said, “Why don’t you go to lunch with my daughter, you’re about the same age.” For decades, Lesley Visser’s ...

The ceremony honoring this year’s Ford Frick winner, Bob Costas, will be held Saturday evening in Cooperstown, New York, home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Bob is the 42nd winner of the ...

With 85 or so football games on network television this past weekend, I asked myself which prominent broadcasters differentiated themselves through the years? We’re inundated with so many announcers ...

Four decades ago, most of the sports television universe consisted of the three New York-based networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC. Sounds very simple, right? Exclusivity was a very big deal to each of ...

Thirty-four years ago, fulltime sports-talk radio was born in New York under the call letters of WFAN. Within a short time thereafter, the conceptual framework of 24/7 sports programming sprouted ...