Thursday, May 10, 2012

Former star athletes will now announce for future star athletes


Rick Neuheisel cheers on the UCLA Bruins basketball team. He is one of three new announcers  on PAC-12 sports. (Photo from Creative Commons)

Every news show needs a good host, right? Well, PAC-12 has three. As a bonus, all three have left their mark in sports history. Ronnie Lott, a 2000 Football Hall of Fame inductee, Summer Sanders, an Olympic gold medal swimmer, and Rick Neuheisel, a 1999 Rose Bowl Hall of Fame inductee, will all be official announcers started in the fall. Lott and Sanders have experience in television, but this will be Neuheisel’s first experience – he studied law after playing at UCLA and has been coaching for quite some time. However, he has expressed his excitement at the new experience.

All three have also competed in PAC-12, Lott at Southern California, Sanders at Stanford and Neuheisel at UCLA. Lott called it “a dream come true” to being an on-air announcer for the PAC-12 Networks. How excited are you to see them reporting on PAC-12 sports?

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