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Voice of the LA Rams,
@JB_Long
, tells a great story about the creative ways he made demo tapes when he wasn't getting play by play gigs coming his way. THIS is the ingenuity that pays off disproportional dividends.
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@GoStanford
Assoc AD Carter Henderson, on a MUST-LISTEN episode of the PXPU Pod, on the two things you MUST have if you want to be a Division I play-by-play voice.
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When Carter Henderson was part of the search process at UW, he said I had the "best answer to an interview question he'd ever heard." We discuss why he loved the answer so much, and what other applicants should consider in interviews, on the PXPU Pod!
ICYMI on the PXPU Podcast yesterday:
@BrockHuard
from
@FOXSports
provided great insight on how to make your analyst's job easier.
Subscribe, rate and review to soak in everything from our amazing lineup of guests at .
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@GoStanford
Associate AD Carter Henderson has been a part of THREE play-by-play hires at Division I universities. He discusses the three different processes candidly on the PXPU Podcast!
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🚨NEW PXPU POD ALERT!🚨
We talk to
@JB_Long
, voice of the
@RamsNFL
, about his transition from TV sports news to radio play-by-play, creative ways to make a demo sound great, and prepping to call the
@Super
Bowl.
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If you want to "make it", be prepared for this 😂😂
@adamamin
handles this in such great stride. Just laugh along. It's the only thing there is to do!
🚨NEW POD ALERT🚨
The guy who had an EPIC call of last weekend’s Colorado-Baylor Hail Mary,
@ConnorOnion
from
@FOXSports
, joins the PXPU Podcast!
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When your dream job opens for the first time in a quarter century, it's impossible NOT to feel a lot of pressure. But Stanford assoc AD Carter Henderson talks about why having the "fit" mindset is so important.
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"OH MY GOODNESS! BIG CHRISTMAS HAS TIED IT! THE ULTIMATE PRESENT UNDER THE TREE! OH MY GOODNESS! JHONKENSY NOEL! THE BIGGEST SWING OF HIS LIFE!" - Brian Anderson as Jhonkensy Noel crushes a 2-out game-tying homer in the bottom of the 9th ⚾️🎙️
#MLB
Getting a big league call up? Dream come true.
Having that game be a no-hitter at Wrigley!? Dream SQUARED!
Dream became reality for
@voiceofcohen2
. How did he handle it!? Find out on today’s PXPU Podcast.
Fantastic debut for
@M_Chaz
in a different shade of red. Former voice of the Washington State Cougars slid right into his new role at NC State like a pro 😤💪🗣️
Time for the weekly Thursday PXPU Pod!
Episode
#1
:
@BrianBoesch
, voice of Michigan basketball... and
@Castricone
's former roommate. Click subscribe to get every pod sent straight to you!
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TODAY on the PXPU Podcast!
@BrockHuard
from
@CFBONFOX
gives tips for building chemistry with your color analyst.
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A dream came true for me last night. With 16,020 of my closest friends, I made my NHL debut for the
@utahhockeyclub
in the team’s inaugural game. From makeshift Purdue club hockey broadcasts, to Florida, Atlanta, Rockford, and now Utah, thank you to everyone who got me here. 💙🖤
Tomorrow on the PXPU Pod:
@BrockHuard
of
@CFBONFOX
drops tremendous insight on how to take your storytelling to the next level. (Hint: you have to HEAR great stories before you can RELAY them.)
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If you'd like to submit a demo for critique and publication on our next edition of
#TellTheTruthTuesday
, send us a note at playbyplayu
@gmail
.com and include the following:
- Name
- Resume or bio
- Photo
- Link of your work (10 mins or less)
RT to get the word out!
Happy
#SpreadsheetSunday
!
Today's lesson is on how to scrape data off of websites, which will be a big step toward getting your spotting boards to automate:
One of our COOLEST spotting board video lessons yet: how to get a player’s conference ranking in a certain statistical category automated onto your board!
Full lesson here! 👇
Today, we answer a question from Claire on how to keep your spotting boards from changing stats with dashes into dates.
This one is FREE for the next 14 days as part of our Spotting Board masterclass.
LOTS more from where this came from 👉
FRIDAY CHALLENGE: this weekend, work a food into your call. Describing someone eating in the stands doesn’t count. Get creative.
Have a great call! And for those of you kicking off a new season under the Friday Night Lights tonight, Happy New Year!
By popular demand,
#SpreadsheetSunday
is going to start turning into a lesson every Saturday AND Sunday.
Our latest lesson teaches you how to make the data you scrape dynamic.
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More tomorrow!
Had a great podcast with JB released just yesterday! He had such great insight for broadcasters who are continuing on their journey.
Have a great call, gents!
ORIOLES BEAT THE METS:
Baltimore defeats New York 9-5 as the Birds got some insurance in the 9th thanks to some costly errors by the Mets defense.
Take a listen to
@GeoffOnTheAir
call this wild sequence of events
#Birdland
!
This is basic (and I don't feel very valuable) information on how spreadsheets work, so this
#SpottingBoardU
lesson is free.
BUT, the rest of them not will be. Sign up for free emails so you can get similarly valuable content to your inbox at .
It's tough to get real reps calling football.
For this week's
#MondayMotivation
, we'll begin a weekly series that focuses on how to create opportunities, and then make the most of them.
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With the inspiration of
@Castricone
and the help of his tutorials on
@PlayByPlayU
I spent tonight optimizing my 2024 soccer charts in Google sheets. I now can create a spotting board for any DI, DII or DIII team in just seconds. Ready to fill with notes. Check it out:
Congrats to
@NateGatter
, who called his first game as
@WestwoodOne
's college football lead announcer last Saturday in the Swamp!
Gatter joins us on the PXPU Podcast this Thursday. Don't miss it!
If you want to break into the college sports PXP space, this is a must listen episode of the PXPU Podcast!
@TBoman
, VP of broadcast ops at
@LEARFIELDAudio
, on his search process when a job opens!!!
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OR
@Castricone
gave me some amazing advice on my radio basketball reel ‼️
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@PlayByPlayU
a follow and subscribe for some amazing broadcast advice!
.
@PlayByPlayU
subscriber
@T_Williams253
has started using the spotting board tutorials to revolutionize his prep for swimming broadcasts!
“You’ve changed the game for me this year,” he said.
Find out for yourself at !
Every week at , we have Tell The Truth Tuesday, where we constructively critique your broadcasting work to help you grow in your craft. Thanks to
@jasondorow
for his submission this week! Great work, Jason! Follow for more!
WOW!
@T_Williams253
has only been using
@PlayByPlayU
for a couple weeks and ALREADY he has fully automated spotting boards for his volleyball broadcasts!
😍
Find out more at .
LOVE this episode of the PXPU Podcast with one of my favorite guys in the industry, (no pun intended!),
@GuyHaberman
!
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When a broadcast is looming and your health is starting to slip, what's the best way to bounce back?
Find out my regimen in today's Monday Masterclass at
"You don't know when the big moment's going to happen. In a football game, you have roughly 130 chapters, plays, to write the book on that one given game. You don't know which chapter of those 130 is the one that's going to define the story. It could come anywhere along the line.
No paywall for today's
#MondayMotivation
, and it comes with a special free download as well!
Next up in our series on making the most of your football call: 36 things I do every week to prepare for a football game.
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This week's
#FridayChallenge
: work a fictional character into your call.
One of my favorites for great extension on one handed catches is an Inspector Gadget reference.
GET CREATIVE!
This week on
#WednesdayWisdom
, the great
@BrianBoesch
pops in with a guest column.
As the minor league baseball season wraps up, the time to start planning your off-seasons growth is NOW.
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Take a look at the video below.
Today's
#SpottingBoardU
lesson is about how to create the kinds of dropdown menus that enable you to do this!
A crucial step in what we're building is available right down here.
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Purchased a subscription to
@PlayByPlayU
for the chance to do automated dynamic spotting boards for Basketball and beyond.
Within an hour it's totally worth it. You are amazing
@Castricone
.
Wouldn't it be sweet if your spotting boards could be as simple as selecting options from a dropdown menu and jus...... WHAAAAAAAAAAAT!?
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It's
#TellTheTruthTuesday
!
Today's demo comes from
@mrmckee
who, in a previous life, was the tour manager for the Wu-Tang Clan!
Check out our critique of the week at , and email us at playbyplayu
@gmail
.com to submit your demo for consideration!
Podcast dropping tomorrow w/
@LEARFIELDAudio
VP
@TBoman
! The man who runs point on all Learfield PXP hires (ie: the vast majority of D1 jobs in the country) talks process, preferences and preparation on tomorrow's PXPU Pod.
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SANTANDER GRAND SLAM GIVES THE ORIOLES THE LEAD:
Anthony Santander's 38th Home Run of the season puts the O's on top in the 8th!
Hear
@GeoffOnTheAir
on the call
#Birdland
!
Listen to the rest of the game at or the WBAL app.
My MLB debut was such an extraordinary day, I honestly felt that if that was it in my career, it would have been more than enough.
So grateful to
@Kyle_Sielaff
,
@SStrom_
,
@MarlinsRadio
,
@Marlins
and
@JaxShrimp
for this. So excited to get to Pittsburgh!
Thanks to ASU's
@aidendblanc
for his submission for this week's edition of Tell the Truth Tuesday!
Everyone head over to our site to check out his demo and let him know what you think in the comments section below the article.
Great job, Aiden!
Incredibly happy for my good friend,
@MartyBannister
!
The two voices of the Sunday Sports Brunch circa 2009, now the voices of my two favorite college football programs! 😂
#OUohyeah