Dave Sims

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Dave Sims (born February 14, 1953) is an American sportscaster, and the television voice of the Seattle Mariners baseball team.

Sims grew up in Philadelphia and attended Bethany College in West Virginia, where he played catcher and majored in mass communications. He began his career as a sportswriter for the New York Daily News. He then became a weekend sports anchor at WCBS-TV in New York.

In 1991, Sims joined ESPN as a play-by-play announcer for college basketball, and added college football in 1998. He primarily called Big East contests on the ESPN Plus regional network. On radio, he provided play-by-play for CBS Radio/Westwood One's Sunday night NFL broadcast starting in 2005 and on a permanent basis since 2006. Sims also calls NCAA Basketball Tournament action for Westwood One, with his most notable call to date being the George Mason-UConn regional final in 2006 (where #11 seed George Mason upset top-seed Connecticut to become the second #11 seed in history to reach the Final Four).

See also: NFL on Westwood One

Sims has said that baseball remains his favorite sport: "For an African-American kid in the 1960s, baseball was still pretty much king." While working in other sports, he occasionally provided Major League Baseball play-by-play for ESPN and did an internet radio show for MLB.com. In 2007, he took the opportunity to return to baseball full-time as part of the Seattle Mariners television broadcast. One of the few African-American broadcasters in the sport, he is also perhaps the only one of that group not to have played in the major leagues.