Three life hacks for sportscasting road trips

Being a sportscaster and road trips go together like peanut butter and jelly (unpopular and unrelated opinion: I hate peanut butter and jelly). In fact travel is one of the most fun aspects of the business as you get to see new places, experience new arenas/stadiums and spend endless hours with coaches and players, building…

Writing Five Different Types of Sports Stories

For most of us, along with the sportscasting comes many other duties including sports writing. We’re tasked with being our team’s media relations manager, as well as broadcaster, and maybe even more. With those many hats comes writing, in both an informative manner as well as creative columns to keep fans engaged. Sometimes, sports writing…

Mauro Ranallo rides sportscasting wave

There are few challenges in sportscasting as demanding and unique as broadcasting professional wrestling, and one of the best is Mauro Ranallo. As we’ve discussed on Sportscaster Life before, professional wrestling is a perfect blend between drama and sports and allows for so much storytelling. It’s unique in the sense that in some cases you…

World Cup to set new broadcast benchmark

The Rugby World Cup kicks off today in Japan. It’s the 7th most viewed sporting event on the planet, behind things like the Olympics, the soccer/football World Cup and the Tour de France…but well ahead of the World Series and any Superbowl. Here’s the list of the Top 10 most-watched sporting events based on worldwide…