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Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Announcer Milestones from (Most Of) March 2024

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For as much as March seems to be dominated by basketball in the sports media landscape, the announcing milestones of the month seem to be do...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

32 Thoughts, A Few Too Many Stories, And What We Do

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Good evening and welcome to another exciting edition of the sporadically-updated blog at Un/Necessary Sports Research. Sometime last weekend...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Announcer Milestones From February 2024

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If there are two things in life that are notorious for putting people to sleep, they are Thanksgiving turkey and bookkeeping details. Today ...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Announcer Milestones from January 2024

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It’s high time to do some accounting around here, in the form of spelling out the 15 announcer milestones that happened in January on the w...
Monday, January 1, 2024

Highly Exciting Bookkeeping Details From 2023

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Below are several historical corrections that were applied to our listings at the end of 2023. This is something that I've been updating...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Mark Jones Becomes Seventh NBA Announcer With 400 National Play-By-Play Games

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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Veteran ESPN sportscaster Mark Jones continued his ascent up the National Basketball Association's list of most f...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Al Michaels Matches Pat Summerall's Record 737 NFL Telecasts

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Al Michaels, the veteran sportscaster who has called all four major sports during a half-century career also highlighted by the emotional fi...