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THE WORLDWIDE LEADER
Dave recently called five college basketball games on ESPNU: VCU at Hofstra on Jan. 12 at 7:00 p.m, George Mason at Hofstra on Jan. 19 at 7:00 p.m., Yale at Princeton on February 19 at 7:00 p.m., Hofstra at Northeastern on February 23 at 9:00 p.m., and the NEC Women’s Championship - SFPA at LIU on March 14 at 3:00 p.m.
MADE THE VARSITY
Dave has signed on to call various sports for MSG Varsity (Ch. 14 in Cablevision homes), including soccer, hockey, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, and lacrosse. MSG Varsity is a new 24-hour high school sports network serving the Metropolitan area. Click here to learn more.
SHORE SPORTS REPORT
Dave appeared as a BIG EAST Basketball expert every Tuesday this season on Fox Sports 1310 AM and WOBM 1160 AM with hosts Joe Giglio and Mike Krenek. Click here to learn more.
BIG EAST Football
Dave called Syracuse’s big upset of Rutgers at the Carrier Dome on espn360.com and SNY on Nov. 21. Click here for the archive.
NEXT YEAR IS NOW
Dave will rejoin Gary Cohen for their seventh season of Seton Hall Basketball together on 77WABC. The Pirates have released their schedule. They will open with Saint Peter’s on Friday, November 13 at Prudential Center in Newark at 7:00 p.m.
STAYING POWER
This year, Dave celebrates his tenth anniversary as the Voice of the Northeast Conference basketball TV package on MSG, FSN Pittsburgh, MASN, and other regional sports networks. His first game this year will be at Bryant at St. Francis (NY) at 12:00 noon on December 5 on MSG. Tim Capstraw, Terry O’Connor, Paul Dottino, producer Eric Singer, and director Mitch Levites all return as well. Click here for more.
BEANTOWN BRAWL
Catch Dave calling the play-by-play of Northeastern at Boston College on Saturday, September 5 at 2:00 p.m. on ESPN360. It?s the opening weekend of college football on The Worldwide Leader.
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?
Dave has signed on to broadcast four Northeast Conference football games with Paul Dottino on MSG. The first game is Duquesne at Monmouth on September 19 at 12:00 noon. Read More
RIP CN8
CN8, The Comcast Network, has gone off the air. Dave first appeared on CN8 in 1996, within a month of the station’s start-up, and called five sports for them over the last 12 years. Most recently, Dave was the play-by-play voice of CN8’s Next Generation Baseball package (primarily Double-A Eastern League games) for the last five seasons. CN8 was available in over 10 million homes in parts of 12 states. Thanks for the memories.
GROOMING OUR REPLACEMENTS
The inaugural Dave Popkin Sportscasting Camp ran the week of August 18, 2008 August 18th at Media Arts High in Jersey City. The camp was sold out. Students learned play-by-play, anchoring, and reporting techniques, performed on-camera sportscasts, conducted interviews at a Newark Bears game, toured the Meadowlands, and more. Scheduled guest speakers included: Kenny Albert (FOX/1050 ESPN), Tina Cervasio (MSG), Doug Doyle (1010 WINS, WBGO), Jared Greenberg (NBA TV, News 12 Westchester), and George Ruthauser (NJ Jackals). Dave is also the long-time Camp Director of the Bruce Beck and Ian Eagle Sports Broadcasting Camp in Little Falls. Click here to read the Jersey Journal feature on the camp.
SPORTSJAM
Dave was recently featured on SportsJam with Doug Doyle on WBGO FM, the world’s foremost jazz radio station. Click here to listen.
ON THE FAN...
On Wednesday, December 1, WFAN’s Mike and the Mad
Dog were promoting Dave big-time to be the new Mets radio announcer,
then they interviewed him live during drive-time. Click
here to listen! - Click here to download.
(11-minutes, approx 5.3MB)
Dave Popkin Named
Recipient of 2007 O. Lawrence Keefe Award
May 2, 2007 - The Seton Hall University Athletic Department awarded
Dave Popkin, veteran Pirate basketball radio announcer, the O. Lawrence
Keefe Award. University President Monsignor Robert Sheeran and Pirates
Athletic Director Joseph Quinlan presented the award to Popkin at the
annual Seton Hall Men’s Basketball awards banquet held last week
at Mayfair Farms in West Orange, NJ. The award honors the memory of
Seton Hall’s long-time sports information director Larry Keefe.
The rare distinction is presented to a member of the media recognizing
that individual’s contribution to Seton Hall athletics. Click
Here for the full press release.
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