Week 0 for High School Football starts tomorrow and I am super excited!!! I am ready to crunch numbers, smell the grass and food, hear the sounds of the bands, the fans, and the players, watch spectacular plays by amazing players, and witness firsthand the plethora of personalities in the press-box. I can’t wait to start handing…
Tag: High School Football
Alamo Stadium 08/27/2013
Hello again HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL, it’s Mark (2013 Preview)
OMG, High School Football starts next Thursday!!! Man, I am excited and can’t wait. It will be my 5th year as a Television statistician for Thursday Night Lights on CW35 and 17th year with the Texas Sports Radio Network. The Thursday Nights Lights broadcasters this year are going to Don Harris from WOAI and…
Flipping a SWITCH – Managing 4 JOBS
NOTE: This BLOG was previously published on mdlblog.com on December 14, 2012 and was also featured as a guest post on my mother-in-law’s blog, SJdriscoll.com. I am reprinting it here in its entirety just as it was published last December. Just like many Americans, I have more than one job…actually, I got 4 jobs!! I have a full-time…
how i got started as a tv statistician
I read a press release in 2009 on the San Antonio Express News that KMYS was going to be broadcasting Thursday night high school football games on television. I was excited and wanted to become the statistician. Even though I have made a lot of football contacts over the years, I didn’t know anybody at the station or know…