Dan Shulman
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[edit] Biography
Dan Shulman (born February 10, 1967 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-born sportscaster, currently employed with ESPN television and radio.
Shulman serves as the lead play-by-play announcer for ESPN's men's college basketball coverage (primarily paired with Dick Vitale) and ESPN Radio's Sunday Night Baseball coverage (with Dave Campbell). He also calls Wednesday Night Baseball games on ESPN television, usually paired with Orel Hershiser.
Shulman graduated from the University of Western Ontario in actuarial science, but he eventually moved into his lifelong obession with sports.
Shulman began his broadcasting career at Western, becoming a main voice of university football and basketball for the Western Mustangs on CHRW radio in London, Ontario, and later at radio station CKBB in Barrie, Ontario. During the early 90's, he was hired by the Fan 1430 (a sports radio station in Toronto, now known as the Fan 590) as the host of Prime Time Sports. He worked for CTV in its coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics from Barcelona, Spain and 1994 Winter Olympics from Lillehammer, Norway. In 1995, he became the play-by-play voice on TSN for their broadcasts of Toronto Blue Jays baseball games, alongside former Blue Jays catcher Buck Martinez. Shulman remained with the network for seven years, during which time he also worked as the network's secondary play-by-play voice for NHL hockey and NBA basketball. He still works with Buck Martinez for TSN during the World Series, filing daily reports.
After his Toronto stint, Shulman was lured by ESPN to cover sporting events like baseball, hockey and college basketball in the U.S. His current contract with the network will expire in 2007.
Despite working in the United States, Shulman retains his Canadian citizenship and resides in Toronto with his wife and children.
