![]() The children of that generation are coming of age now where they begin to look at colleges. Higher education in America is in a bit of a financial crisis after the years of decreased fertility around the 2008 financial collapse. They include softball, baseball, and women’s volleyball. Forbes reports that “consensus is building” to take other tournaments currently covered in the NCAA Championships television package to market on their own. Now it appears women’s basketball is only the tip of the iceberg. Right now, it is included in a larger NCAA Championships television package that ESPN has through the end of the next school year. In April, Baker told NBC’s Meet the Press that the NCAA is “going to work really hard” on an individual TV rights deal for the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament. “Those items are going to get a lot of attention from us over the course of what I would describe as the next four to six months,” he said. He said that in years past, the organization’s media strategy has left money on the table. He made that clear again over the weekend in Washington, DC.īaker was on stage at an event called The Future of College Sports, which was hosted by the University of Arizona.Īt the event, Baker discussed the NCAA’s financial performance. His goals are clearly bigger than just maintaining the status quo for the organization. I had done over 100 games at Wrigley Field before I even got the job and now 2+ years into it, there’s still plenty of nights when I sit there whether it’s full or empty and it feels completely brand new because it’s so beautiful and so special.”Ĭharlie Baker took over as president of the NCAA following the retirement of Mark Emmert last year. Sciambi said that he had called many games at Wrigley Field before this role, but the ballpark has a charm to it. Part of the benefits of being the voice of the Cubs is getting the chance to have the home stadium be an iconic ballpark like Wrigley Field. I had a full-time job at ESPN so that was really more what I was concentrating on.” Is Len happy? That was really more my focus. “I was probably more concentrated on how Len was. It was an opening Sciambi had known about, but it wasn’t on his immediate radar b. The Cubs’ TV job became available when Len Kasper became the radio voice for the Chicago White Sox. I’m not saying there is no factor because that would be untrue, but I am fortunate that I have a specific connection for the most part with each of those guys that I think facilitates it at least a bit.” I’ve always had a good connection with Girardi and JD (Deshaies) is one of my favorite people on the planet. Doug Glanville is a guy I have been friends with since he’s played. “The one thing that I would tell you I am fortunate about in terms of all those dudes is I worked 7 years at ESPN with Sutcliffe. It’s a little challenging when you are bouncing from one to the other.”ĭue to Sciambi forming relationships in the past with some of his current analysts, it makes it easier to have the analyst chair shuffle around sometimes. On TV over the years between MLB and college baseball, I worked with Rick Sutcliffe, David Ross, Aaron Boone, Singleton, Glanville, Alex Cora, Kyle Peterson, Raul Ibanez, a non-stop list. “At ESPN, when you are doing national games on the radio, I had one year with Dave Campbell, then I was with Chris Singleton forever, now I’m with Doug Glanville. Sciambi was a guest on the Tell Me A Story I Don’t Know podcast with George Ofman and he said that working at ESPN prepared him for the aspect of the Cubs. The current voice of Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN Radio has many analysts working with him on Cubs games, including Jim DeShaies, Joe Girardi, Doug Glanville, or Ryan Dempster to name a few. Jon Sciambi has been the voice of the Chicago Cubs since the Marquee Sports Network was formed in 2021.
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