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Rich Marotta 'Idolized Floyd Patterson' as a Boy

Boxing commentator Rich Marotta, 60, was recently inducted into the Southern California Sportscasters' Hall of Fame. A respected, former long-time host of the Los Angeles-based radio show, Neutral Corner, who now calls fights for Top Rank Live, Marotta spoke to FanHouse about his love for the sport and its participants,...

The Padres Are Throwing a Pennant Race and No One Is Coming

The Padres have been the biggest surprise of the 2010 baseball season, but their on-field success hasn't translated to more fans coming out to see the team make a playoff push. The average attendance for the team's last 12 games was 25,086 which means that they Padres have been drawing a few hundred fans per game less...

Twelve Thoughts: Nolan Ryan, Giants Bargains, Mat Latos

West Coast Bias, classing the place up, gives you Dick Enberg's spirited ode to Nolan Ryan's 383-strikeout season. The American League's Cy Young award in 1973 went to Jim Palmer of the first-place Baltimore Orioles, in part, the former Angels broadcaster said, because Ryan's feats with a weak California club were muted...

FOX, CBS Set NFL Announcer Lineups

The NFL's Sunday afternoon broadcast carriers have set their announcing lineups for the coming season with few changes. The biggest alteration to the landscape is that 13-time Emmy Award winner Dick Enberg won't be doing an NFL game for the first time in more than 40 years. Enberg, who came to CBS in 2000 after calling...

Twelve Thoughts: Cardinal Sins, Zach Lee, Colombian Connection

If the Cardinals need a rival's comments to play better, what does that say about the Cardinals? When the Cardinals play their "A" game, they look capable of beating anybody. Yet they've been prone to more lapses this year than a typical Tony La Russa team. Great for the Cardinals that they swept the rival Reds after...

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05/23/12 There was some extended commercial-free baseball on... Source: Comcast SportsNet If this sort of thing keeps up Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Pryce is gonna go out of business.
05/22/12 FSM's woes give Cards fans a treat: A night with Enberg Source: St Louis Post-Dispatch - St Louis MO Technical troubles for Fox Sports Midwest led to an unexpected twist for Cardinals fans, who got to hear legendary sportscaster Dick Enberg do play-by-play of most of the Cardinals-Padres game Monday night and enjoy a commercial-free telecast most of the way.
05/04/12 What no-hitter? Angels announcers kept mum Source: Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles CA Twins game Wednesday night on Fox Sports West might not have known Angels pitcher Jered Weaver was throwing a no-hitter.
05/03/12 Should announcers say no-hitter is in progress? Angels... Source: Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles CA Twins game Wednesday night on Fox Sports West might not have known Angels pitcher Jered Weaver was throwing a no-hitter.

Background on dick enberg

Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg (born January 9, 1935) is an American sportscaster. He currently provides play-by-play for telecasts of San Diego Padres baseball on Fox Sports San Diego, following a long career calling various sports nationally for such networks as NBC, CBS, and ESPN.

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