Play-by-Playcast

Rich Chvotkin has served as the Voice of the Hoyas since the early 1970's and stands as one of the longest tenured broadcasters across college basketball.  Since 1986 Rich has worked solo on he air and also is a practcing medical professional all the while working on press row.  Rich talks changes in the radio business and in basketball and recalls some of his favorite memories of the Hoyas and th...

Tim Grubbs has been the voice of the New Orleans Baby Cakes for 16 years.  He joins the podcast this week to talk all things including: Broadcasting for a team named the Baby Cakes, climbing the MiLB ladder, broadcasting for a New Orleans team during Katrina, meeting his eventual wife on the road in Iowa, his favorite players to broadcast and what Vlad Guerrero and Andruw Jones looked like in Low-...

Ed Cohen has called virtually any sport you can think of.  That list includes a gig calling weightlifting at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.  Ed and Joel break down the prep for calling a sport you don't know and what it's like calling games from a studio.  Ed's experience includes the Olympics and other international experience like the KHL and Japanese baseball league.  Domestically Ed can be seen c...

Mike Couzens and myself go back a little ways.  We first met as national delegates in high school at the Conference on National Affiars in North Carolina.  CONA was the pinnacle for any member of YMCA Youth & Government program.  So we met there and then again in college and then again in the professional ranks.  Now we're here on this podcast talking about Mike's life and job and what the heck Sp...

For episode 30 of PxPCast we dip back into the ESPN pool and visit with Anish Shroff, the former Dream Job contestant that has gone on to a PxP and Anchoring career at the network.  But it didn't happen without a bunch of steps along the way.  Anish details his journey to the mothership and talks a lot about the production and prep that goes into a TV broadcast.  We also talk about reading and sli...

Pete Weber has been the voice of hockey in Nashville since the Predators came to town in the late 1990's.  But he's take a crazy route to the Preds that includes stops in the NFL, NBA, NHL and Triple-A baseball.  He's also done college sports at places like Buffalo and St. Bonaventure.  Not only that, but Pete got his big break as an analyst...a non-jock analyst (something almost unheard of today)...

Bob Carpenter is one of the most faous baseball broadcasters in the business, if only because his name is on the cover of 90% of the scorebooks used by broadcasters across America.  The Bob Carpenter Baseball Scorebook has become as well known as the announcer himself over the year.  Carpenter talks about his small business in addition to his trip through the Major Leagues en route to Washington a...

Dan Shulman is the guest on episode 27 on PxPCast.  One of the truly great broadcasters of our era, Shulman is the voice of Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN and serves as one of the network's premiere voices of college basketball.  On this week's episode Shulman breaks down his calls of the Christian Watford buzzer-beater vs. Indiana and the Cubs winning the World Series and dives into his baseball p...

Brandon Gaudin may be one of the most often heard play-by-play announcers of millenials everywhere...and they don't even have to be watching sports.  Gaudin is in his first year as the play-by-play voice of the video game franchise Madden.  He's on the call whenever people start up their XBox systems worldwide.  In addition he still does the real thing, calling games for Westwood One and the B1G N...

Matt Park became the voice of his alma mater back in 2004, having grown up in the Syracuse area as well.  The job carries an immense responsibility both to live up the the standards of being a Syracuse guy broadcasting the games at Syracuse, but also to help cultivatge the next generation of broadcasters to come from there.  Park talks about the legacy of guys like Mike Tirico, Sean McDonough, Bob...

Eric Mirlis is the author of the new book, "I Was There."  The project talks with boradcasters and sports journalists about various events they witnessed in person -- as pros or just as fans.  It gives incredible perspective into the ways some of us all see sports differently in this industry.  Eric talks about the project and also his time in the sports broadcasting industry as well. It's a littl...

Dan McLaughlin called his first MLB game at 23.  Twenty years later he's still at it with the St. Louis Cardinals and Fox Sports Midwest.  Dan talks about working with different partners on air, his style and prep and working with Joe Buck on his first broadcast.

Johnny Holliday is the Voice of the Maryland Terrapins and just an overall really great guy.  The former radio DJ has been at UM since 1979 and has called over 1,200 Terps games.  But that's just the tip of the iceberg for Holliday.  He's also a well known DJ, announcer and actor on screen and stage.  All his interests and accolades paint a really diverse broadcaster at the top of his field.  John...

Greg Brown started as the Pittsburgh Pirates mascot, Pirate Parrott.  He's now the team's voice.  Greg joins Joel to talk all about his rise through the baseball ranks to becoming an MLB play-by-play guy.  He also details the, well, details of calling baseball -- how to prep, how to learn about players and how to work with an analyst in a baseball game.  Follow Greg on social media @GBrowniePoints...

Jason Knapp is a versatile broadcaster, covering everything from college football and basketball for CBS SN and the Pac 12 Networks all the way through beach volleyball, wrestling and curling for NBC Olympics coverage.  Knapp talks all about those diverse experiences and how to call those games in arenas not always familiar to most.

John Sadak wanted to be a scientist.  Instead he broadcasts NFL games on national radio.  The Westwood One announcer joins the PxPCast this week to talk about his journey in broadcasting and how he hones his craft.  Sadak not only works for Westwood One, but also for CBS Sports Network and the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (AAA-Yankees) among other outlets.  You can find him on twitter @JohnSad...

Eli Gold is the longtime voice of Alabama Crimson Tide football.  He's also spent time in the NHL, in Minor League Baseball with NASCAR and in a host of other broadcasting roles.  Gold talks about getting the job in Alabama, fitting in as the new voice for a school, how his voice came to be and what it's like working with Nick Saban as a broadcaster.  

Matt Martucci is one of the most well traveled broadcasters in this industry.  He's done (or still does) work for St. Joe's, Lincoln University, Fox Sports Regional, Campus Insiders, Comcast, Verizon Fios, Westwood One, Sirius/XM, WIP, The Fanatic, The Philadelphia Soul, The Atlantic City Surf, the LAX Sports Network and most recently became the lead voice for the Conference USA football package o...

Jon Laaser is in his second season as voice of the Virginia Tech Hokies.  He's had a sinuous path through the broadcasting world that's taken him to 10 different states and countless minor league baseball teams and more.  Hear Laas talk all about climbing that ladder and eventually staking out his place at a Power 5 school.

Joe Davis was deemed the heir apparent to the great Vin Scully upon his hiring by the Los Angeles Dodgers a season ago.  He's one of the best young broadcasters in the industry today, working for both the Dodgers and Fox Sports.  His worked his way up through Minor League Baseball eventually landing at ESPN at just 25 years old.   In this edition of the podcast Davis discusses Vin Scully and the D...

Bob Wischusen has one of the busiest schedules of any broadcaster this time of year.  On Thursday he'll have an NFL radio call on Westwood One.  On Saturday he'll call college football for ESPN TV.  On Sunday he calls the radio broadcast for the NY Jets.  On the seventh day he rests? Bob talks all about juggling a schedule like that, his prep work, his self-evaluations and what makes him happy whe...

JB Long went to college at Notre Dame.  There is no broadcasting program in South Bend.  They have a student radio station but Long went to school with ideas of a career in finance.  That last...well, not very long...Long soon found himself working in local TV before climbing his way through various major networks including the B1G, MLB and PAC-12 Networks.  This summer his career took another hug...

Wayne Larrivee is the voice of the Green Bay Packers, having previously served in the same capacity with the Chiefs and Bears.  He also called Bulls games on TV during Michael Jordan's career.  Larrivee Talks his rise through the business and even hits on his hallmark "There's your dagger!"

Adam Amin is back this week!  The ESPN announcer talks climbing the ranks at the mothership, his broadcast goals and dreams and how he works to balance life and work with his busy schedule.  He also talks about needing to put in dryer sheets.  All that and more on this edition of @PxPCast.

Adam Amin is one of the fastest rising play-by-play broadcasters in the business right now.  He works a full slate of college sports on the mothership and also handles MLB and NFL games on ESPN Radio.  In the first of our two-part conversation Adam discusses how his career got started in college and how he wound up at ESPN.  He also talks about his early days at ESPN and how he secured an agent in...