Mass Comm Week: ESPN+ Broadcaster Talks to TXST

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Mass Comm Week: ESPN+ Broadcaster Talks to TXST

By Timia CobbWeb Content Contributor Brant Freeman, ESPN+ announcer and broadcaster for the Texas State Athletics Department, spoke at Mass Comm Week about what it takes to do his job televising live sports. Freeman is also the video productions coordinator for the Texas State athletics department. As a Texas State Alumni, Freeman shared the experiences he gained when he attended Texas State. He said these opportunities and resources pushed him […]

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Sports

Coaching Connections: Everett Withers and Tom Herman

By James Jordan II Sports Reporter With the highly anticipated home game between Texas State and the University of Houston just a few days away, let’s take a brief look at the history between coach Everett Withers and coach Tom Herman. Their first encounter was when Withers was a defensive back coach at the University of Texas at Austin, from 1998-2001. In 1999, Herman joined the staff as a graduate […]

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Bobcat Radio

Bobcat Radio – Texas State Football Beats Tulsa

Sept. 29, 2014 Evan Spielvolgel, Ryan Marcus Segment 1: Name Drop David Mayo Texas State Linebacker NFL football player Segment 2: Bobcat Sports Men and Women's golf is off Texas State Soccer team improves to 7-3-1 and 2-0 in Sun Belt play Texas State Volleyball has won five in a row and are first in the Sun Belt play Texas State Football team went on ESPNEWS and won a […]

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Bobcat Radio

Bobcat Radio – Let the Madness Begin

March 19, 2014 Hosts – Ishmael Johnson, Warren Schorr, Kirk Jones and Odus Evbagharu Producer – Skye Wallace Editor – Ishmael Johnson Segment 1: Name Drop - Chris Fowler – ESPN’s new primetime play-by-play announcer - Julian Green - German-American US Soccer player - Phil Jackson – Former Lakers head coach, new Knicks President - Colby Targun – Texas State Outfielder, safety Segment 2: Texas State - Football: Hiring of […]

March 20, 2014 189

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Bill Simmons And Nate Silver: Web Innovators

Writer – Nick Erskine, Photographer – Nick Erskine This session highlighted the selling of Nate Silver’s http://www.fivethirtyeight.com website to ESPN. Originally a site focused on covering politics, it will now have an increased focus on using sports metrics and analytics in order to maker better sense of sports events. Simmons, founder of Grantland and member of the ESPN NBA Countdown pregame show, gave some astute advice throughout the session on […]

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