As an aspiring sports broadcaster, there are many reporters or on-air personalities who I could look up to and try to model myself after. What I like to listen to as a viewer is someone that has their own unique style when broadcasting. There is Mike Breen, an NBA play-by-play announcer who has his signature call “BANG” when a player makes a three-point shot or starts to “heat up” as they say in basketball. It makes the moment that much better to experience with that call. Joe Buck who knows when to fluctuate the volume of his voice at the right moments in any sport he broadcasts. While those two are a few of my favorites, my all-time, go to broadcaster that I looked up to ever since I was young was Chris Berman. To me, there was so much to learn from him as he seemed to check all the boxes of what anyone would want to listen to in a broadcaster.
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The Backlash to Retiring Early in the NFL
Chris Borland was one of my favorite linebackers to watch growing up as not only a young Wisconsin Badger fan but an avid player of the game as well. Watching him play as a freshman and sophomore in high school was really inspiring because of how fast he played the game, how well he played the game and he played it in the right way I used to think with how he tackles. He seemed to be one of those players that had to work hard to get where he was and he respected everyone else he was competing against which is how every young player wants to be if they aren’t born with all the talent in the world, they have to work towards it. Continue reading “The Backlash to Retiring Early in the NFL”
The Final Final 