You love watching sports. You love to talk. And a career where you get paid to go both of those things seems like it’s too good to be true. But to get started in sportscasting can be a very daunting prospect that comes with a lot of brick walls you’re forced to fight through, climb…
I love pro-wrestling. It’s a guilty pleasure that I truly enjoy for a multitude of reasons. First it’s entertaining. The production value, the presentation and the action are all fun to watch, and seeing these larger than life guys and girls pulling off moves in the ring that I can only dream about is something…
People who want to be a sportscaster as a profession know how tough it is. On the surface, a career as a sportscaster is awesome. You can get paid to watch sport and get treated like a king. However dig just below the surface and you’ll see all the blood, sweat and tears that go into…
It was October of 1993. I was barely a month into my WHL broadcast career as the Voice of the Prince Albert Raiders and at the tender age of 20, I was summoned into the office of Raiders Head Coach Donn Clark. He closed the door and said, “Whose team are you on?” I stuttered…
When will I get my big break? Sportscasting is a cut throat business. There are thousands of people interested and toiling away at the high school and club level, and only a select few earn (or fall into) the coveted network slots and become stars. In many ways being a sportscaster is not too dissimilar…
As I’ve mentioned here before, I’m a fan of Logan Anderson’s blog, Say the Damn Score. It’s a good look at his view on sportscasting as he makes his way through a young and glowing career. His entry last Monday was the story of how he got into broadcasting…going from “moderately talented athlete” to play-by-play…
This post stems from a conversation I had with fellow hockey broadcaster Jonathan Kliment. Kliment reached out to Sportscaster Life to discuss prep techniques, namely the volume of information put onto spotting boards and a few issues that he’d been having while covering the SUNY Broome Hornets in the NCJAA. Here’s Jonathan’s questions: JK: A…
Hi, I’m Logan Anderson, I’m a sportscaster from South Dakota. Alex has invited me to write about the challenges of doing play-by-play for an unfamiliar sport for the first time. Perhaps it’s ironic that on a site that’s run by a professional hockey broadcaster, the sport I tried was in fact hockey. I’ll start by…
In the summer of 2011, I had a great opportunity to try something new. Prince George, BC (where I was living at the time) was hosting an international baseball tournament featuring teams from Canada, China, Chinese Taipei, Cuba and Japan. It was a huge event for the city, hosting major teams with players who have…
Not long ago, I got an email from a colleague in the BCHL asking about my goal calls. He was looking for ways to change up his goal call, feeling that it was too repetitive particularly when put into a highlight pack. So I thought it might make for an interesting post if I broke…