Dan Shulman

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Dan Shulman (born 1967 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian-born sportscaster with ESPN, serving as the network's voice for baseball games on television and radio. He is the lead announcer for both ESPN's college basketball coverage (primarily paired with Dick Vitale) and ESPN Radio's Saturday and Sunday night baseball coverage (with Dave Campbell).

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, and also as a job 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. In 1995, he became the play-by-play voice on TSN for their broadcasts of Toronto Blue Jays baseball games. Shulman remained with the network for seven years.

After his Toronto stint, Shulman was lured by ESPN to cover sporting events like baseball and college basketball in the U.S. He currently serves as the voice of MLB on ESPN Radio, along with working with Dick Vitale on Saturday Primetime college basketball games, a duty he will add for the 2007 season. This contract will expire in 2007.

Despite working in the United States, Shulman resides in Toronto with his wife and children.

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• The Last Word
• Western Alumni Magazine