“BASEBALL FAN-KEEPING SCORE AT HOME”
Do you like the San Diego Padres TV broadcasts with Don Orsillo, Mark Grant, Bob Scanlan and the rest of the broadcast crew? Popular people. Operating under the MLB-Umbrella for years, it's a quality broadcast, loaded with lots of stats. It made me think how the games, and the broadcasts have changed, and it made me wonder 'How much is too much'. Lots of talk about launch angles, spin rates, velo etc. A ton of new stats and graphics and graphs about all the analytical...
“TED TURNER–MANY THINGS TO MANY PEOPLE”
What does the name Ted Turner mean to you? It could be a wide variety of things in a wide diverse business world. He founded CNN-debuted covering the Gulf War. He invented WTBS-delivery Atlanta Braves baseball nationwide He created TNT and...
“SO WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM LAKERS-THUNDER”
What did you expect? Last year's NBA champion showed up, jerked the Lakers around, turned on the ignition, coasted, reignited the fire and then blew them away. The Thunder, a dynasty in the making, acted like they were toying with the once...
PADRES LOSE PITCHERS DUEL..YANKEES NOW (26-12)..LAKERS SCORCHED 2ND HALF IN OKC…SEAHAWKS NEW BIDDER FOR TEAM..DUCKS-VS-LAS VEGAS-FRIDAY..TRUMP RIPS FIFA
...(Basketball)... (NBA Playoffs-Scoreboard)-Thursday ..Lakers-L-Oklahoma City..(125-107)..Thunder take (2-0) lead ..Shai Gilegous-Alexander-Chet Holmgren combined (44P) ..Thunder 6-in double figures ..Jared McCain explodes 18-off the bench ..OKC erupts 68-points in 2nd half ..Thunder (56%) shooting from floor..(21-26) free throws ..Austin Reaves (31) in loss..LeBron James (25P) ..Lakers 20-turnovers and 26-fouls in loss ..Cleveland-L-Detroit..(107-97)..Cade Cunningham (25P)-Tobias Harris (21P)...Pistons lead (2-0)...James Harden (3-13) shooting..Donovan Mitchell (31P) in loss. -------- (Playoff Schedule)-Friday NY Knicks-76ers..NY leads (2-0) San Antonio-Minnesota..Tied (1-1)..Spurs...
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Lee ‘Hacksaw’ Hamilton has built a national reputation as one of America’s top sports-talk show hosts. He has been named Talk Show Host of the Year seven times by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. He has spent his last 26-years doing Sports-Talk Radio in San Diego, and was the first talk show host hired at the legendary 77,000-watt XTRA-Sports-690, and now at 50,000-watt Mighty 1090, hosts the San Diego Padres pre-postgame talk shows. .
He was the popular longtime Radio Voice of the San Diego Chargers, and also did NFL play-by-play for the Seattle Seahawks, and the Compass Media Networks, in addition to his college play-by-play work for the USC-Trojans, Arizona State Sun Devils, San Diego State Aztecs and the Ohio University Bobcats. His NFL play-by-play has been featured at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in the Hall of Champions in San Diego, and for NFL-Films.
He broadcast the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and the WHA-All Star games.
He has also worked for Sirius-XMs Home Plate Baseball Channel, and did talk shows for Fox Sports 570-KLAC in Los Angeles, and Fox Sports Radio’s network..
He spent 8-years doing hockey for the Cleveland Crusaders and Indianapolis Racers, and 8-years doing Minor League baseball for the Phoenix Giants and the Utica Blue Sox.
He worked at KTAR-Phoenix, 3WE-Radio in Cleveland, and began his career at WLGN-Logan, Ohio and WIBX-Utica, New York.
An accomplished writer, he was named ‘Columnist of the Year’ by the San Diego Press Club, and has written freelance sports columns for the San Diego Union Tribune, and the SDNN-San News Network website.
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