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Dale Arnold
Dale Everett Arnold (born March 27, 1956) is a New England sportscaster. He co-hosted talk radio shows on WEEI and WEEI-FM from 1991 until his retirement from radio in March 2021. He has served as the play-by-play announcer for the Boston Bruins and has called Boston College Eagles football. He is the only person to have done play-by-play broadcasts for all five of the Boston area's major professional sports franchises. In November 2024, Arnold came out of retirement to serve as a studio host for Bruins broadcasts on NESN on an interim basis. Career A Bowdoin College alumnus, Arnold began calling games for the school teams while a student there in the mid-1970s. In 1979, he succeeded Mike Emrick as the voice of the Maine Mariners. He joined the New Jersey Devils with Emrick as their radio announcer in 1986, before returning to New England two years later. Arnold called New England Patriots games from 1988 to 1990 and provided play-by-play coverage for Bruins home games from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdoin College
Bowdoin College ( ) is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. It was chartered in 1794. The main Bowdoin campus is located near Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River. In addition to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin owns a coastal studies center on Orr's Island and a scientific field station on Kent Island (New Brunswick), Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy. The college was a founding member of its athletic conference, the New England Small College Athletic Conference, and the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium, an athletic conference and inter-library exchange with Bates College and Colby College. Bowdoin has over 30 varsity teams, and the school mascot was selected as a polar bear in 1913 to honor Robert Peary, a Bowdoin List of Bowdoin College people, alumnus who led the first successful expedition to the North Pole. History Founding and 19th century Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794 by the Massachusetts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sullivan Stadium
Foxboro Stadium, originally Schaefer Stadium and later Sullivan Stadium, was an outdoor stadium in the New England region of the United States, located in Foxborough, Massachusetts. It opened in 1971 and served as the home of the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL) for 31 seasons (through January 2002) and also as the first home venue for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer (MLS) from 1996 to 2002. The stadium was the site of several games in both the 1994 FIFA World Cup and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, and hosted a wide variety of other events, particularly concerts. Foxboro Stadium was demolished in 2002 and replaced by Gillette Stadium and the Patriot Place shopping center. History The stadium opened in August 1971 as Schaefer primarily as the home venue for the renamed New England Patriots of the National Football League. The team was known as the Boston Patriots for its first eleven seasons 1960– 70, and had played in various st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barstool Sports
Barstool Sports is an American blog website and digital media company headquartered in New York City that publishes sports journalism and pop culture-related content. It is owned by Dave Portnoy, who founded the company in 2003 in Milton, Massachusetts. History Launch and growth (2003–2016) Barstool began in 2003 as a weekly print publication distributed for free at transit stops in the Boston metropolitan area that offered gambling advertisements and fantasy sports projections but later expanded to encompass other topics. It launched on the Internet in 2007. The site was headquartered in Milton, Massachusetts, identifiable with a cardboard sign with the site's name written in ballpoint pen. Portnoy hired Kevin Clancy in 2009 and launched Barstool New York, the blog's first major move outside the Boston area. Barstool ceased publication of the print version in 2010 and transitioned to a web-only model. Early controversies In August 2011, the site received criticism over n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nielsen Ratings
Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers. Headquartered in New York City, it is best known for the Nielsen ratings, an audience measurement system of television viewership that for years has been the deciding factor in canceling or renewing television shows by television networks. As of August 2024, it is the primary part of Nielsen Holdings. NMR began as a division of ACNielsen, a marketing research firm founded in 1923. In 1996, NMR was split off into an independent company, and in 1999, was purchased by the Dutch conglomerate VNU. In 2001, VNU also purchased ACNielsen, thereby bringing both companies under the same corporate umbrella for years. NMR is also a sister company to Nielsen//NetRatings, which measures Internet and digital media audiences. VNU was reorganized and renamed the Nielsen Company in 2007. NMR was separated again from Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Buckley (journalist)
Steve Buckley (born 1956) is an American journalist and long-time sports writer who formerly wrote for the ''Boston Herald''. In 2018, he joined sports website ''The Athletic''. Career Buckley started his career at the '' Westfield Evening News'' and later moved to the ''Portland Press Herald''. He was a regular columnist with the ''Boston Herald'' from 1995 to 2018, contributing to the paper's Sports section. In 2018, he joined sports website ''The Athletic''. His columns often used historical perspective drawn from a diverse variety of sources. He joined Boston Sports radio station WEEI in 1993 and has been a regular on the station's The Big Show since its debut in 1995. He also makes regular appearances on New England Sports Tonight on CSN New England and on WBZ-TV's "Sports Final". Prior to joining the ''Herald'', he was a columnist with the National Sports Daily. Buckley is a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. In 1999 he wrote and produced ''I'll be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave O'Brien (sportscaster)
David O'Brien (born August 3, 1963), nicknamed "OB", is an American sportscaster who is a lead play-by-play announcer on the New England Sports Network (NESN) for telecasts of the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB), and for college football and college basketball games aired on the ESPN Inc.-owned ACC Network. He has previously broadcast for MLB's Atlanta Braves, Florida Marlins, and New York Mets, and has announced other sports including basketball, football, and soccer. Early life Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, O'Brien grew up in Marshfield, Massachusetts, and later New Hampshire before receiving a degree in broadcasting from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 1986. Broadcasting career From 1987 to 1992, O'Brien worked as a sportscaster in Atlanta, Georgia, calling play-by-play for MLB's Atlanta Braves in 1990–91 as well as college football and basketball games for Georgia and Miami. He earned the Georgia Associated P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Castiglione
Joseph John Castiglione (born March 2, 1947) is an American retired radio announcer, best known for his 42 seasons announcing games of the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. He has also been a college lecturer, and author. Castiglione was the recipient of the 2024 Ford C. Frick Award, presented by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and is an inductee of the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame. Early life and career Castiglione was born in Hamden, Connecticut, and graduated from Colgate University with a BA in Liberal Arts. He was the radio voice of Colgate football and baseball while a student. He then received an MA in radio/TV from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1970. He also worked on the WAER-FM staff at SU. While at Syracuse, he worked a variety of on-air jobs for WSYR-TV (now WSTM-TV). He began his career in Youngstown, Ohio, broadcasting football games for $15 a game, and as sports reporter for WFMJ-TV in 1972. Castigl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Holley
Michael S. Holley (born February 26, 1970) is an American television and radio sports commentator, sports reporter, author and a professor at Boston University https://www.bu.edu/com/profile/michael-holley/. He formerly wrote columns for the ''Boston Globe'', ''Chicago Tribune'', ''The Plain Dealer'', and ''Akron Beacon Journal''. Career While working for the ''Akron Beacon Journal'' in 1993, Holley was one of several reporters who worked on a project studying race relations in Northeastern Ohio. The series, entitled "A Question of Color," won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service. Holley worked as a reporter and columnist for the ''Boston Globe'' from 1997-2001 and then again from 2002-2005, briefly leaving the paper to work for the ''Chicago Tribune''. In 2005, Holley left the ''Globe'' to replace Bob Neumeier as co-host of the WEEI (AM), WEEI midday sports radio talk show. The show was renamed the ''Dale & Holley Show'' and featured Holley and former Boston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Globe
''The Boston Globe,'' also known locally as ''the Globe'', is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Boston Globe'' is the oldest and largest daily newspaper in Boston and tenth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the nation as of 2023. Founded in 1872, the paper was mainly controlled by Irish Catholic interests before being sold to Charles H. Taylor and his family. After being privately held until 1973, it was sold to ''The New York Times'' in 1993 for $1.1billion, making it one of the most expensive print purchases in United States history. The newspaper was purchased in 2013 by Boston Red Sox and Liverpool F.C. owner John W. Henry for $70million from The New York Times Company, having lost over 90% of its value in 20 years. The chief print rival of ''The Boston Globe'' is the ''Boston Herald'', whose circulation is smaller and is shrinking faster. The newspaper is "one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Neumeier
Robert E. Neumeier (November 3, 1950 – October 23, 2021) was an American sportscaster for several Boston-area media outlets. He also appeared on NBC Sports, specializing in Thoroughbred racing. Early life Neumeier was born on November 3, 1950, and grew up in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he graduated from Weymouth High School in Massachusetts in 1968. After graduating from Syracuse University, Neumeier taught history for a short while at Weymouth High School, worked in the sports department of the ''Boston Globe'', and did public relations work for the New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association (who later became the NHL's Hartford Whalers). Broadcasting career Hartford Whalers Neumeier's first job in broadcasting began in 1975 on WTIC in Hartford, Connecticut, where he called play-by-play of the Whalers, working with Bill Rasmussen and Larry Pleau; among their calls was the famous "Brawl at the Mall" in April 1975 during a playoff series with the Minnesota Fightin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Andelman
Eddie Andelman (born 1937 Stoda, Greg"Boston’s Eddie Andelman, godfather of sports talk, still feisty at 77" ''The Palm Beach Post'', July 7, 2014 ) is an American sports radio talk-show host. He has worked over 40 years in sports talk radio in Boston and has appeared on more than 100 sports stations throughout the country. Early life and education Andelman was born in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester and raised in Brookline. and graduated from Brookline High School in 1954. Andelman graduated from Boston University and earned an MBA from Northeastern University. Before starting his career in radio with WBZ in 1969, he ran his family's real estate development business. Career Andelman's career in sports talk radio began in June 1969 on suburban station WUNR. His show ''Sports Huddle'' then moved to Boston's WBZ later that year. Airing on Sundays from 7–10 p.m., the show also featured Jim McCarthy and Mark Witkin. Andelman remained at WBZ until mid-1971, when he and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Edwards (sportscaster)
Jack Edwards (born March 1957) is an American former sports commentator and reporter. From 2005 to 2024, he provided play-by-play commentary for Boston Bruins games on NESN television. From 1991 to 2003, he worked for ESPN as an anchor for their sports news program ''SportsCenter'', as well as a play-by-play commentator for their NHL, MLS, Little League Baseball, and 2002 FIFA World Cup broadcasts. Edwards provided commentary for the Konami soccer video game ''MLS Extra Time 2002''. Broadcasting career Early career Edwards started as a play-by-play announcer for the New Hampshire Wildcats men's ice hockey, University of New Hampshire hockey team. He then moved on to play-by-play and Sportscaster, sports anchor positions at WGIR (AM), WGIR radio and WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire. During the early 1980s, he worked as a talk radio host for WRKO in Boston and as a weekend anchor at WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, Providence. He then moved to a sports reporter positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
