ESPN’s Dave O’Brien and Doris Burke
ESPN play-by-play commentator and Voice of the Boston Red Sox Dave ’B ’86 will visit the along with his broadcast partner, Doris Burke, on Friday, Jan. 17, as guests of the . They will discuss their careers in sports broadcasting at 5 p.m. in the Miron Room, 303 Newhouse 1. The event is open to the public. Follow on Twitter at #NewhouseSports.
, a Newhouse alumnus, joined ESPN in 2002. He serves as a play-by-play commentator for MLB Wednesday Night Baseball and for college basketball and baseball and NBA games.
He has done radio play-by-play for the Boston Red Sox since 2007. He was previously the television voice of the New York Mets and the voice of the Florida Marlins.
, a basketball analyst and reporter for ESPN, calls both men’s and women’s college and pro contests. She previously served as a WNBA analyst for the New York Liberty on MSG Network and also was a women’s college basketball analyst for CBS Sports and Westwood One Radio.
She was the first woman to call Knicks radio/television broadcast (2000) and a Big East men’s basketball game on television.
This is the first of many spring semester events sponsored by the Newhouse Sports Media Center, including a visit from ESPN’s Sean McDonough ’84 and Jay Bilas on Sunday, Feb. 2; coffee with ESPN’s Carter Blackburn ’01 on Monday, Feb. 10; and a day-long forum on Diversity in Sports Media on Wednesday, Feb. 26.
For more information, contact John Nicholson at 315-443-4065 or jsnich01@syr.edu.
