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DC-Area B-Ball Announcers Get Excited Yet Again
There’s something about the Nation’s Capital that brings out the bombastic behavior of basketball announcers. There’s the Wizards’ Steve Buckhantz who likes his daggers . There’s Georgetown’s Rich Chvoktin who believes a player got fouled . And now only 33 miles away in Annapolis, another b-ball broadcaster goes nuts : In the opening round of the Patriot League tournament Wednesday night, ...
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Bucknell Announcer Loses Mind, Soul
D.C. Sports Bog — Bucknell Announcer Loses Mind, Soul So yeah, yesterday's post noted that Navy must have been awful sad after losing in virtually the worst way imaginable. But every action has a reaction, or whatever, and so the Bucknell announcer entered a catatonic state of mindless bliss when that 40-foot prayer went in. Hat tips to Steve Goff and Awful Announcing and Sports By Brooks , although to the latter I'd point out that Bucknell isn't technically a D.C. school. Also, apologies to Rich Chvotkin , but this might be better. By Dan Steinberg | March ...

Your Obligatory "March Madness Has Begun" Post
Super, Scintillating and Sarcastic — I've been looking for a video of this, with the completely insane announcer to go along with it of course, since it happened a couple nights ago but to no avail. Thankfully, the man, the myth, the legend that is Dan Steinberg (Go Blue Hens!) at the DC Sports Bog got it, apparently from Sports By Brooks and Awful Announcing. So basically you can now go anywhere on the Internets and find this gem. Anyway, it's March and I suppose this constitutes Madness and I guess we can all feel a little safer now that basketball like this is back to take our lives over. Last year, I ...

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