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Two-for-One: Two Over-The-Top Announcers, One High School [VIDEO]

Duke Keith — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:22:15 +0000

Maybe it's the Chicagoland legacy of Harry Caray. Possibly John Belushi. Or, maybe they're just mixing Caray's and Belushi's respective favorites, beer and cocaine. Anyway you look at it, Chicago is breeding some amazingly over-the-top play-by-play announcers, and Marist High School is where they're cutting their teeth.

Gus Johnson & Bill Raftery Do Up the Cup

Duke Keith — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:59:54 +0000

Englishman Ian Darke’s “Go-Go, USA!” goal call of Landon Donovan’s stoppage time winner that lifted the US over Algeria in World Cup 2010 will live forever as one of the classic calls in American sports. But if US Soccer ever starts looking for some American excitement, look no further than Gus Johnson and Bill Raftery. [...]

"Oooh, sore-ry. Sore-ry, Stanford."

Duke Keith — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:42:26 +0000

If you’ve never seen what the guys at the SolidVerbal.com sports blog produce from time to time, consider this an above-average introduction. Alex Trebek doing play-by-play of last year’s Oregon-Stanford game. As the cut-out cartoon Englishmen for Guinness would say, “Brilliant!”