“TED TURNER–MANY THINGS TO MANY PEOPLE”
What does the name Ted Turner mean to you? It could be a wide variety of things in a wide diverse business world. He founded CNN-debuted covering the Gulf War. He invented WTBS-delivery Atlanta Braves baseball nationwide He created TNT and TMC-buying up the MGM movie inventory He built the Cartoon Network He bought the Atlanta Braves and won a World Series. He purchased the Atlanta Hawks preventing the NBA from moving the team He saved the NHL-Atlanta Thrashers though they wound up moving to...
“SO WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM LAKERS-THUNDER”
What did you expect? Last year's NBA champion showed up, jerked the Lakers around, turned on the ignition, coasted, reignited the fire and then blew them away. The Thunder, a dynasty in the making, acted like they were toying with the once...
LAKERS-OKC-NBA…STATEMENT GAMES COMING…
All the banners that hang high above the LA Lakers home court don't mean anything. Neither does the roster laden history that brought us George Mikan, Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant and...
PADRES SLUG GIANTS..DODGERS BOMB HOUSTON…GLASNOW HURT-LA….LAKERS MUST WIN GAME WITH OKC…SPURS DESTROY MINNESOTA…DUCKS BIG WIN-LAS VEGAS…
...(Baseball)... Padres-W-Giants (5-1)..Friars (22-14) ..Ty France 2R-triple..Xander Bogaerts 2R-HR..Gavin Sheets HR ..Matt Waldron-best start of year (5inn-1R-7K) Padres-vs-Cardinals..Thursday..Michael King-vs-Matt Liberatore..StL (21-15) Padres..P-Lucas Giolito-first rehab start-San Antonio...(4inn-5R-8H-2W-HR)..threw 3-shutout innings but got lit in 4th inning. Padres..1st round draft pick Kruz Schoolcraft struggles continue at Lake Elsinore....(5G-10 inn- 20R-21H-13W)...13.50-ERA. -------- Dodgers-W-Astros (12-2)..LA now (23-14) ..Andy Pages solo HR..2R-HR..3R-HR ..Dodgers scored 3-runs on 3-wild pitches in game ..P-Tyler Glasnow pulled in 2nd inning-back spasms lower...
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Lee ‘Hacksaw’ Hamilton has built a national reputation as one of America’s top sports-talk show hosts. He has been named Talk Show Host of the Year seven times by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. He has spent his last 26-years doing Sports-Talk Radio in San Diego, and was the first talk show host hired at the legendary 77,000-watt XTRA-Sports-690, and now at 50,000-watt Mighty 1090, hosts the San Diego Padres pre-postgame talk shows. .
He was the popular longtime Radio Voice of the San Diego Chargers, and also did NFL play-by-play for the Seattle Seahawks, and the Compass Media Networks, in addition to his college play-by-play work for the USC-Trojans, Arizona State Sun Devils, San Diego State Aztecs and the Ohio University Bobcats. His NFL play-by-play has been featured at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in the Hall of Champions in San Diego, and for NFL-Films.
He broadcast the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and the WHA-All Star games.
He has also worked for Sirius-XMs Home Plate Baseball Channel, and did talk shows for Fox Sports 570-KLAC in Los Angeles, and Fox Sports Radio’s network..
He spent 8-years doing hockey for the Cleveland Crusaders and Indianapolis Racers, and 8-years doing Minor League baseball for the Phoenix Giants and the Utica Blue Sox.
He worked at KTAR-Phoenix, 3WE-Radio in Cleveland, and began his career at WLGN-Logan, Ohio and WIBX-Utica, New York.
An accomplished writer, he was named ‘Columnist of the Year’ by the San Diego Press Club, and has written freelance sports columns for the San Diego Union Tribune, and the SDNN-San News Network website.
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