Dick Enberg
Dick Enberg
Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg, Ph.Dis an American sportscaster. Since 2010 he has provided play-by-play for telecasts of San Diego Padres baseball, following a long career calling various sports for such networks as NBC, CBS, and ESPN...
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth9 January 1935
CityMount Clemens, MI
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On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's the same curtain that keeps you from swearing. I've known broadcasters who can't get one sentence out in normal conversation without being profane, and yet, they can go on the air and talk for three hours and never slip once.
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said Simms. ''It's a matter of time. The game is much faster in the TV booth. It's so hard to get it done in a three-man booth. There's less time to talk. With only two guys, Troy will be able to set it up, and decide what he wants to show and tell. I'm sure he's going to enjoy it. I'm also sure he liked Cris and working with him. But this is about freedom.
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I was shocked when I got the call. I still regard myself as being very strong on football, and I think we had a great season. I can't accept that my work is any less than it was in the past. I feel I story-tell as well as anyone. I won't take this as a defeat.
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Baseball is the best announcer game, the game that I first enjoyed playing, and the game I had a passion for.
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To be the announcer where you live is a very special opportunity.
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Do kids ever tire of Christmas? The excitement of this job is never dull because in all the years and thousands of games I've called I've never done the same one twice.
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There wasn't a great living athlete or legend who wasn't on the show. I met every one of my heroes.
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He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again.
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He was the first superstar of sports television.
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The ecstatic leap of two years ago ? smiling and subtle today. Phil Mickelson, at 35, connecting his personal legacy with the legends and tradition of The Masters.