Episode 54 - Drew Carter

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10/01/21 • 56 min

Drew Carter is in his first year as a full-time play-by-play broadcaster for ESPN. Carter previously worked as a sports reporter/anchor for Birmingham's CBS 42 from August 2019-2021. He has also called Minor League Baseball with the Auburn Doubledays in 2018. Carter was the winner of the 2019 Jim Nantz Award by the Sportscasters Talent Agency of America, as the most outstanding college sportscaster in the nation. Carter is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

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Pete Pranica has been the television play-by-play voice of the Memphis Grizzlies since 2004. Prior to joining Memphis, he spent time filling in on Detroit Pistons radio broadcasts, and was the full-time radio voice for the Portland Trail Blazers. Pranica was the winner of the 2017 Tennessee State Sportscaster of the Year. Pranica is a 1986 graduate of the University of Notre Dame. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.

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Episode 55 - Dave Sims

Dave Sims is in his 16th season with the Seattle Mariners broadcast team. He has won back-to-back Washington Sportscaster of the Year awards from the National Sports Media Association. Sims, who has play-by-play duties on Mariners television broadcasts, is familiar to sports fans for calling MLB and college basketball games on ESPN, as well as NCAA Basketball and NFL play-by-play on Westwood One.

He co-hosts “Basketball & Beyond with Coach K” for Sirius XM with Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski, is a correspondent for MLB Network and calls Big East college basketball on FS1. The two-time Emmy Award winner also won the American Football Foundation's Outstanding Sportscaster Award in 2003 and the Big East Media Award in 2005. Sims began his career as a sportswriter for the New York Daily News prior to becoming a weekend sports anchor at WCBS-TV. In 1991, he joined ESPN as a play-by-play announcer for college basketball. From 1998-2014, he did NFL play-by-play, including Sunday Night and Monday Night Football, as well as the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, for Westwood One. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @BroadcasterHour plus @Roger_Hoover and @CrooksPBP.