BREAKING NEWS: Kevin Calabro New Voice of Sounders

Awful Announcing found this 7/22/2008 on ssreporters.wordpress.com [flag]

No more Sonics means no more Kevin Calabro right? Wrong! He’s a local broadcasting legend, he’s one of my favorites, and now he’s going to take a crack at soccer! As some of you know already, the next MLS franchise will be Seattle Sounders FC, they have a geographical home at Qwest Field, and a broadcasting [...] [link]

Tags:

Soccer

Major League Soccer

Seattle Sonics

Seattle Sounders FC

Qwest Field

NBC

Comments

Links (2)

Calabro Spurns Thunder Cats For Sounders
Published 7/22/2008 by Awful Announcing- (noreply@blogger.com) at Awful Announcing
... sure his family and local Seattleans (?) appreciate it, but you don't normally see someone passing on the NBA for an MLS Expansion team. Calabro has been everywhere throughout his career, including ESPN Radio, TNT and TBS and I'm sad to see him go. Let's be honest here....I'll never watch a local Seattle broadcast of an MLS game, but good luck. Now we just need to find a place for Craig Ehlo. Kevin Calabro becomes voice of the Sounders (Seattle PI) BREAKING NEWS: Kevin Calabro New Voice of Sounders (SS Reporters)

Calabro Spurns Thunder Cats For Sounders
Published 7/22/2008 by CHN at College Basketball by Collegehoops.net
... the possibilities."I'm sure his family and local Seattleans (?) appreciate it, but you don't normally see someone passing on the NBA for an MLS Expansion team. Calabro has been everywhere throughout his career, including ESPN Radio, TNT and TBS and I'm sad to see him go. Let's be honest here....I'll never watch a local Seattle broadcast of an MLS game, but good luck. Now we just need to find a place for Craig Ehlo.Kevin Calabro becomes voice of the Sounders (Seattle PI)BREAKING NEWS: Kevin Calabro New Voice of Sounders (SS Reporters)

Related: kevin calabro, sounders

Seattle Sounders FC announce TV Deal | American Soccer Reader

AmericanSoccerReader posted 7/22/2008 from americansoccerreader.com

At a press conference at Qwest Field, the Seattle Sounders FC announced their three year television deal for the clubs upcoming inaugural season in Major League Soccer. The deal will see King-5(or Kong 6/16), broadcast every Seattle Sounders FC match, both home and away. Seattle also announced that Kevin Calabro will be the clubs play-by-play....

Sounders reach TV deal, Calabro to announce

Posted 7/22/2008 on The Beautiful Game

It's always good news out of the Sounders FC camp, and the most recent developments are much of the same. The team announced an agreement recently with KING/KONG television in which all Sounders home games will be televised -- if not nationally, then locally. Also, in a surprising development, former Seattle Sonics play-by-play announcer Kevin Calabro (right) will have the same position for ...

Calabro turns to Sounders--will you?

Posted 7/22/2008 on Supersonicsoul - The Sonics Blog!

(photo by Jim Bates / Seattle Times) Kevin Calabro has turned down a lucrative offer to follow The Team Formally Known As The Sonics (TTFKATS) to Oklahorrible and instead will stay in town as the voice of Seattle's new MSL team, The Sounders . Now, I've never been a huge soccer fan, but with KC calling the games, I might be converted. Hmmm, I wonder if the Sounders have any good blogs? ...

Sonics' broadcaster picks calling soccer over moving to OKC

Posted 7/22/2008 on Ball Don't Lie

If all of Kevin Calabro's friends were to jump off a bridge, he wouldn't follow. He'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall. (Or something like that.) Yes, longtime Sonics broadcaster Kevin Calabro will be staying in the Pacific Northwest to become the voice of Seattle Sounders FC when they join Major League Soccer next season. Apparently, Calabro had an option to stay with the Sonics ...

Sonics’ Kevin Calabro would rather call soccer than move to Oklahoma

Posted 7/22/2008 on Hotdog & Friends

Constable Echelon Long time voice of the Seattle Supersonics Kevin Calabro will be staying in the Pacific Northwest to lend his signature erratic, insouciant* baritone to the expansion Seattle Sounders FC of the MLS. (more…) ShareThis