Freddie Coleman - ESPN Radio Host
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Episode 534
Freddie Coleman is a sports commentator and host for ESPN's radio network. He is currently the co-host of the weeknight ESPN Radio show Freddie and Fitzsimmons, alongside Ian Fitzsimmons. Prior to that, he hosted the Freddie Coleman Show, weeknights from 11 p.m. – 2 a.m. ET and Sundays from 10 p.m. – 1 a.m. Coleman joined ESPN Radio in June 2004, as a co-host of the then-nightly, prime-time program GameNight.
Prior to joining ESPN Radio, Coleman was a weekday afternoon co-host on FoxSportsRadio 980-AM in Albany, N.Y. as well as a sportscaster for the local news in Wappingers Falls, NY and an analyst for Marist Basketball.
Coleman is a 1987 graduate of Mansfield University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of arts degree in mass communication.
On this episode of the podcast, Freddie Coleman and Jason Romano share ESPN memories, what it has been like doing live radio during Covid-19, signing a new contract extension, Stuart Scott memories, and how returning to church in Poughkeepsie, NY helped him on his journey with Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast where we bring Jesus into the conversation. |
| 0:18.1 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.5 | Hey, guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:22.1 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:23.4 | My email address, Jason at Sportspectrum.com, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:30.0 | I'd love to hear from you. |
| 0:30.9 | Any guest ideas you have? |
| 0:32.2 | Any thoughts on today's interview with Freddie Coleman from ESPN Radio? |
| 0:36.5 | You can reach me directly, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
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| 1:31.3 | slash team up and help release a child from poverty today. Very excited to welcome to |
| 1:40.5 | Sports Spectrum, Freddie Coleman. He is an ESPN radio national radio host. He's been at ESPN |
| 1:47.3 | radio since 2004 and you won't find a nicer guy and a better dude than Freddie Coleman. He and I go way |
| 1:56.6 | back and we intersected certainly for 13 years during my tenure at ESPN. |
| 2:02.8 | He got there in 2004. |
| 2:04.5 | I got there a few years earlier. |
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