Category: Meet the Press
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Mark Binetti: From bands to booths
Mark Binetti did not stay in his first sports-related trade long enough to experience ludicrous geographic misnomers. Nor did he come to his new calling in time for the most outlandish of the same in another game. In South Dakota since 2013, he joined the rest of the Rapid City Rush in transferring from the…
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RIT’s Trefzger jazzed up for music, sports and news
Two reasons compelled Ed Trefzger to attend the 2010 Frozen Four in Detroit. Obviously, being the Rochester Institute of Technology men’s hockey team’s radio announcer was one. The Tigers had just made an improbable run to the NCAA semifinals in only their fifth Division I campaign. But Trefzger also checked out the Detroit Jazz Festival, a convenient commute…
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The ice is right for Lindquist in Worcester, ECHL
Eric Lindquist likes to be a full-fledged human on the job. He is not the mere eyes and ears of the Worcester Railers HC. And he will certainly not settle for the limitations of being a disembodied voice from above. No, the Massachusetts- and California-seasoned sportscaster must move about his workspace, taking his audience with…
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Rachel, Brandon Kisker taking stock in civic endorsement
Even before he saw them in action, Brandon Kisker favored the Rough and Ready Islanders uniforms. The ECHL’s Stockton Thunder were to assume a temporary persona Feb. 7 and 8, 2014. It was the front office’s choice of costume for the league’s answer to a masquerade ball. As the Alaska Aces’ guests when Anchorage observed…
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Announcer/milliner Schultz sports several hats in Bemidji
Kelly Schultz had a friend who had a good problem to have. With that said, it was still a problem. Karin Housley, a Minnesota State Senator, had hoped to attend the 2017 Kentucky Derby. But her husband, NHL veteran-turned-assistant coach Phil Housley, had commitments south of the state border. Phil’s Nashville Predators were on a…
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Matt McConnell shares his fond Pond memories
Matt McConnell is entering his seventh season as the play-by-play TV broadcaster for the Arizona Coyotes. As such, he will witness the inaugural home game for the expansion Vegas Golden Knights as a visiting announcer Oct. 10. McConnell is no stranger to watching new NHL brands break out, having done so on the home side twice before. He…
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Steve Mears living his dream with ‘the greatest job in the world’
Steve Mears was in a unique sort of awe when he frequented the old Pittsburgh Civic Arena. Attending a hockey game as a child did not stand out because of the players, as it does for most young fans. Instead of focusing on the ice, he was looking up towards the ceiling, realizing he was…
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Goucher talks RI sports scene’s past, present, future
Dave Goucher is on the all-time roster of Pawtucket Red Sox announcers in much the same way David Ortiz is on the all-time roster of Pawtucket Red Sox players. Both men had cemented their place in the top echelon of their respective fields when they came for a cameo performance at the home of Boston…
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The ‘Sweetest’ gig in the minor leagues
Zack Fisch and professional hockey are not in Kansas City anymore. The last team to represent the first-year Hershey Bears broadcaster’s native locality — the United League’s Outlaws — came and went when he was a mere 14 years old in 2004-05. Their predecessors, the International League’s Blades, started before Fisch was old enough to…
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Scott Sudikoff eager to break more ice with the Women’s Frozen Four
The Family Arena in St. Charles, Mo., is barely a half-hour drive west of America’s ultimate tribute to tackling new territory. When the Gateway Arch’s construction crew finished their project in 1965, the Associated Press stated that the structure “…symbolizes the pioneer spirit of the men and women who won the West, and those of…