Play-by-Playcast

TRich Hollenberg is a college basketball pxp announcer with ESPN and a part of the Tampa Bay Rays broadcast team.  The Syracuse grad got his start with Sports Phone and then in local TV.  He eventually went on to work for HSN before becoming the TV personality we're familiar with today.  Follow Rich on twitter @RichOnSports.

Roy Philpot decided to make the switch to pursue play-by-play around the age of 30...and he climbed his way to the mountain top. Since 2013 Roy has been with ESPN after working his way up through radio, TV and working with Scout.com.

Ted Robinson has been the voice of the San Francisco 49ers for more than a decade and has called Major League baseball with several teams, including in New York with the Mets.  But that just scratches the surface of his PxP versatility.  Robinson also works with NBC on its Olympics coverage and is one of the most recognizable PxP voices of tennis.  On this week's pod he touches on all those subjects including how to call sports you're new too, what makes great football pxp, setting up an analyst, Colin Kaepernick and more.

Dave O'Brien is the TV voice of the Boston Red Sox.  Before that he was the radio voice of the Red Sox and before that he spent time in the majors with the Marlins and Braves and called a host of events for ESPN.  We'll talk about all of it, how to call a game on local TV vs national TV, handling major historic moments, his time at WAER in Syracuse, and much more this week on the pod!

Dave O'Brien is the TV voice of the Boston Red Sox.  Before that he was the radio voice of the Red Sox and before that he spent time in the majors with the Marlins and Braves and called a host of events for ESPN.  We'll talk about all of it, how to call a game on local TV vs national TV, handling major historic moments, his time at WAER in Syracuse, and much more this week on the pod!

On this week's pod Joel touches on an email he received this past week that made him feel better about the impact a play-by-play announcer can have on the world and then talks with Brad Sham.  The latter is the 30+ year voice of the Dallas Cowboys and he talks his role as an analyst early in his career, what makes good football pxp, calling the Dez Bryant catch (or no catch or, ah who the hell knows what it was) and more.

Also, make sure you catch Brad's podcast "Then and Now" on itunes today!

Sean Woodland is the voice of the Reebok CrossFit Games, an event unlike many other in the world of sports. A former TV reporter in Jacksonville, FL, Sean got out of the broadcasting business before joining CrossFit where he's now one of the most recognizable on-air voices of the sport of fitness.  On this week's podcast Sean talks about how he arrived at CrossFit HQ, what it's like to call the Games, how to broadcast a marathon row, the differences in the way you research and talk about athletes in defferent settings, his voice, doing CrossFit himself and more.

Tim Hagerty is the voice of the Triple-A El Paso Chihuahua's...and before that the Tucson Padres and before that the Portland Beavers (with friend of the Pod Rich Burk).  They're all the same team and all different teams.  So Tim takes us through his MiLB journey, his rise quickly to the highest levels of the minors, his working on his voice and covering his accent and more.

Paul Peck is the football voice of the Buffalo Bulls and one of the most recognizable media voices in western New York.  He joins the pod to talk about his role with the Bulls, the world of new media, his previous career in local TV, coming up through the Syracuse WAER system and calling the 1987 Final Four.

We continue our tour de NFL this week with the voice of the Carolina Panthers, Mick Mixon.  A former analyst with the great Woody Durham on the UNC Tarheels Sports Network, Mixon has served as Panthers voice since 2005.  We talks about having played both roles in the booth, what makes good pxp to him, calling SuperBowl 50 and more.