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Sports Spectrum Podcast

Pablo Viruega - ESPN Deportes' Commentator

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

Sports

4.9685 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Pablo Viruega serves as an analyst for ESPN International and ESPN Deportes’ weekly NFL studio show NFL Esta Noche and appears as a regular commentator on Cronómetro and Noche De Combates. In addition, Viruega serves as a football and basketball analyst and has covered the Olympic Games, Pan American Games, Central American Games, several World Cups, the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Pablo about his broadcasting journey, calling events for an international audience in America, his journey of faith, and his experience recently calling Super Bowl LV in Tampa. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.

0:13.6

Here's your host, Jason Romano.

0:16.6

Hey guys, welcome to the show. I am Jason. This is Sports Spectrum. Make sure you check out our website,

0:22.9

Sportspectrum.com, for all of our content. And we'd love to hear from you. Any guest ideas, any feedback

0:28.8

from this show with Pablo Verwega. We'd love to hear from you. You can email me, jason at sportspectrum.com.

0:37.4

That's my email, Jason at sportspectrum.com. That's my email, Jason at sportspectrum.

0:39.8

And as I mentioned, Pablo Vitoega is our guest today on sports spectrum. This was a fun

0:46.8

conversation with Pablo. He works with ESPN, with ESPN international, ESPN Latin America,

0:53.3

and ESPN Deportes as a sports analyst for football

0:57.3

and for the NBA.

0:59.0

He can be seen on the weekly NFL show NFL Estanoche and appears as a regular commentator

1:05.2

on Noche de Combatis.

1:07.7

My Spanish is terrible, so forgive me if I'm not pronouncing these properly.

1:12.6

But Pablo just came back about a month ago from calling Super Bowl 55 for ESPN to Portes.

1:19.7

He also serves for football and basketball analyst's work has covered the Olympic Games,

1:23.7

Pan American games, Central American games, several World Cups.

1:27.7

And as we mentioned, the Super Bowl and the NBA Finals.

1:30.8

He is a Mexico City native.

1:34.0

He is from Mexico and moved to Connecticut, right down the road, really, from where I live,

1:39.5

just a couple miles away, to work at ESPN back in 2008.

1:48.2

He has three kids. He's married, and we have a ton of fun talking on sports, talking on faith. He loves Jesus and family and just acclimating yourselves to the

1:55.5

United States when you've been in Mexico and speaking Spanish your whole life. And Pablo doesn't do a lot of these interviews

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