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THEY HAVE A WIKIPEDIA: BILL PIDTO

admin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:30:30 +0000

On this edition of THAW, we have a DE-VELOP-ING! SIT-U-A-TION!! It’s former Sportscenter anchor Bill Pidto.

I’m not sure if Pidto is still associated with the WWL. I could have sworn I saw him doing some ESPN News recently, but perhaps I was just dreaming. Good, good dreams. The Wiki says “He was formerly a journalist for ESPN”. Say it ain’t so.

His Wikipedia entry tells us he is the Andy Bernard of Sportscasters: he went to Cornell. What it doesn’t mention is his awesome set of catch phrases. No mention of “The National. Football. League.” “Ring him up, sit him down.” “Yes, please.” (I think that was Pidto.) No mention of any of them. No mention of how Berman and the gang used to chide him on NFL Primetime. Those were good times. Why so many things left out? Disgraceful.

These days Bill is a contributor to the Mad Dog radio program.

So there you have it. Bill Pidto. Cornell graduate. Possibly still employed at ESPN. Wikipedia entry haver.

Hey Bill– if you read this, drop us a line!

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THEY HAVE A WIKIPEDIA: SHAVLIK RANDOLPH

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:27:59 +0000

This week on THAW, Shavlik Randolph. You may remember him from such universities as Duke. You may not have known–as I didn’t–that he actually is still in the NBA. That’s assuming of course, that you knew he made it to the league to begin with. He is currently a Trailblazer.

Randolph was named after his grandfather Ronnie Shavlik, an All-American center for the North Carolina State Wolfpack in the 1950s. (Ronnie Shavlik was a first-round draft pick by the New York Knicks in the 1956 NBA Draft.) He wears No. 42 because it is half the uniform number worn by his grandfather (No. 84).

He also broke his ankle on November 30, 2006, in an accident during practice that teammates described as gruesome, comparing it to former NFL quarterback Joe Theisman‘s career-ending injury.

Shavlik Randolph: Grandfather homage payer, Still NBA player, and Wikipedia entry haver.

Check out previous They Have a Wikipedia: Van Earl Wright

THEY HAVE A WIKIPEDIA: VAN EARL WRIGHT

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:31:45 +0000

I suppose anyone can have a Wikipedia entry. But it’s still interesting to see so many different pages, and to find some you didn’t think would be there. Hence the new segment: “They Have a Wikipedia”.

Leading off: Van Earl Wright.

You may remember Van Earl as one of the early adopters of flamboyant highlight calls from his CNN Headline News days.

You may not have known that he is the current voice for “American Gladiators”, and he appeared in a kid’s show called “Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide”, where he sported what looks like a pretty fantastic mullet.

His Wiki also mentions that, “In one CNN Headline Sports segment he said the following about former overweight major league pitcher Sid Fernandez, “Sick….and I mean SICK Sid Fernandez”! His signature greeting is “Hellllooooo Everybodyy.”

Van Earl Wright: sportscaster, actor and Wikipedia entry haver.