Dave Sims

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Dave Sims (born February 14, 1953) is an American sportscaster. He currently is the television play-by-play commentator for the Seattle Mariners and the radio play-by-play man for Sunday Night Football on Westwood One.

[edit] Life and career

Dave Sims grew up in Philadelphia and attended Bethany College in West Virginia, where he played catcher and majored in mass communications. He began his career as a sportswriter for the New York Daily News. He went on to co host the mid day show with Ed Coleman on New York's Sports Radio 66 WFAN on in the early 1990s the show being nicknamed the Coleman and the Soul Man. He then became a weekend sports anchor at WCBS-TV in New York.

In 1991, Sims joined ESPN as a play-by-play announcer for college basketball, and added college football in 1998. He primarily called Big East contests on the ESPN Plus regional network.

In addition to his Sunday Night Football radio gig, Sims also calls college basketball for Westwood One, with his most notable call to date being the George Mason-UConn regional final in 2006 (where #11 seed George Mason upset top-seed Connecticut to become the second #11 seed in history to reach the Final Four).

Prior to taking the permanent play-by-play position on Sunday Night Football, Sims was the #2 broadcaster for Westwood One's Sunday afternoon NFL doubleheader. He replaced Joel Meyers on the Sunday Night Football game in 2006.

See also: NFL on Westwood One

Sims has said that baseball remains his favorite sport: "For an African-American kid in the 1960s, baseball was still pretty much king."[cite this quote] While working in other sports, he occasionally provided Major League Baseball play-by-play for ESPN and did an internet radio show for MLB.com. In 2007, he took the opportunity to return to baseball full-time as part of the Seattle Mariners television broadcast.One of the few African-American broadcasters in the sport, he is also perhaps the only one of that group not to have played in the major leagues.

[edit] References

  • Dave Sims' Official Website: [1]
  • Athletisense, Dave Sims' Media Coaching Company: [2]
  • Stone, Larry. "M's juggle lineup in broadcast booth". Seattle Times, January 12, 2007.