Dave Pasch - ESPN play by play broadcaster on Bill Walton, grief, faith and the increase of Christ
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4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Dave Pasch is a play by play announcer for ESPN's college basketball, college football and the NBA. Pasch is also the radio voice of the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL every week.
Today on the podcast, Dave Pasch shares stories about his close friendship with Bill Walton, the challenges of his busy broadcasting schedule, and the importance of staying true to his Christian faith in the media industry. He discusses the impact of Bill Walton's passing earlier this year, and the need to grieve and find hope in the face of death. Dave also reflects on his favorite college football atmospheres and offers encouragement to young believers pursuing a career in broadcasting.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, coming up today on Sports Spectrum, we got a really awesome conversation with Dave Pash. |
| 0:06.0 | Dave is, well, he's a jack of all trades, if you will, as a broadcaster. |
| 0:10.0 | He's a play-by-play voice. |
| 0:11.2 | He works for ESPN. |
| 0:12.2 | He does MBA, college basketball, and college football for ESPN. |
| 0:18.5 | And he's also the radio voice of the Arizona Cardinals. |
| 0:22.0 | So if you watch pretty much any sporting event this fall, right, in terms of football, |
| 0:26.2 | college football, or if you get a chance to listen on Sirius XM to the Arizona radio |
| 0:30.5 | broadcast of the Cardinals, that's Dave Pash. |
| 0:33.7 | And Dave's been doing this a long time, 21 years at ESPN, 23 years with the Arizona Cardinals. He went to college at Syracuse and has been a broadcaster. One of the best there is in the business, in my opinion. He's also one of the more unique people because he does play by play for NBA and college basketball. And he does play byby-play for college football and the NFL, right? |
| 0:56.6 | Who does that? And him and I were talking about this before we started recording. |
| 1:00.3 | Who does that? Who's that invested in those four sports to be able to be a voice and a play-by-play |
| 1:07.5 | voice at that for those unique games and sports. |
| 1:10.9 | And so really cool stuff from Dave Pash. |
| 1:13.1 | His longtime partner was Bill Walton. |
| 1:15.9 | And we do have a lot of Bill Walton stories here today on the show, which was fun. |
| 1:19.8 | The late great Bill Walton who passed away suddenly in the end of May of 2024. |
| 1:25.9 | So we talk a lot about Bill Walton. |
| 1:27.4 | We also talk about Jesus. And Dave is a Jewish |
| 1:30.6 | man who gave his life to Jesus in college, I believe, and has been walking with the Lord since. |
| 1:36.7 | And so we've talked a lot about faith as well and how to live your faith out, right? Like he works in a |
| 1:42.0 | place where he's working with people who aren't |
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