The last time I covered a playoff hockey game, I ended up calling the game while sitting inside a Zamboni tire. That one was an opening round matchup in Class A hockey…last Friday, I decided to take in the Section 4AA championship from the Warner Coliseum between Hill-Murray and White Bear Lake. I posted the [...]
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24 February 2010
Live from the Tire
Broadcasting sports for a small radio station in East Central Minnesota has led me into some pretty interesting places. I’ve called games sitting in the middle of the bleachers, right next to loud fans who seem to only get into the game when they feel the refs wronged their team. I’ve sat outside on a [...]
14 February 2010
A Full Week
February in Minnesota offers quite a variety of sports for the fan, the casual observer, and in my case, the sports broadcaster. The last week was a pretty exciting one- hockey from Pine City on Tuesday night, basketball from Columbia Heights on Friday, and then the Mora Vasaloppet ski race today. I’ve been covering the [...]
13 January 2010
Worst Playoff Loss Ever??
A college roommate of mine, still full of schadenfreude after seeing the Packers lose that exhausting 51-45 game on Sunday, told me about a poll a Madison radio station was running today. They listed three infamous Packers playoff losses- Sunday’s, the 2007 NFC Championship and the 2003 NFC Divisional game vs. the Eagles (the “4th [...]
10 January 2010
45 isn’t enough??
I’m spent. That Pack/Cards game that turned from NFL playoff football into Tecmo Bowl took every last bit of energy out of me. I’m still at a loss. But, it’s only fair after predicting months ago that the Pack would go 12-4 (didn’t miss that one by much) and win the division by 3 games [...]
