Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Chick Hearn, Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket, Paul Sunderland, Spero Dedes, Joel Meyers, Bill Macdonald. Excerpt: Bill Macdonald is an American sportscaster who works for Fox Sports West /Prime Ticket . Macdonald joined the network, then called Prime Ticket, at its inception in 1985.Currently, Macdonald hosts the following pre-game and in-game shows:He is also the former host of the Los Angeles Kings ‘ pregame show Break the Ice and calls play-by-play for Los Angeles Avengers Arena Football, UCLA college football and basketball for FSN Prime Ticket. He has also been the host of FSN’s Pacific-10 Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament coverage at the Staples Center for the past several years. For the past three years, Macdonald has hosted the UCLA Press Conference Show, with Matt Stevens in 2005 and 2006, and James Washington in 2007.Macdonald called the game (January 22, 2006) in which Kobe Bryant scored 81 points, the second-highest total in NBA history. He filled in for Joel Meyers , who had another broadcasting commitment that day.Bill Macdonald has three sons, and resides in Newport Beach.A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Francis Dayle “Chick” Hearn (November 27, 1916 August 5, 2002) was an American sportscaster . Known primarily as the long-time play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association , the legendary Hearn is remembered for his rapid fire, staccato broadcasting style, inventing colorful phrases such as slam dunk , air ball , and no harm, no foul that have become common basketball vernacular, and for broadcasting 3,338 consecutive Lakers games starting on November 21, 1965. Additionally, Hearn started the now common tradition of estimating the distance of shots taken.Of note is that most of Hearn’s games in the tele…

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