Oh man, happy Friday.

Happy Friday to you, loyal and valued ESPN daily listener.

And hello, yes, it is Pablo interrupting, otherwise smooth ride of an episode that we're

excited to bring you as part of our run of some of the great stories that we've told

so far this year.

And today, we're going to talk about the visual side of live sports.

After all these basketball games, all these playoffs, underway, and we want to discuss

the ability to paint a picture of a game live.

How to detail the speed, the physics of all of it.

I mean, you'd assume you'd need to lay eyes on this stuff that you'd actually need to watch

it to commentate on it.

But Sam Borden tells us the story of Bryce Wilde, a young man who dreamt of being part

of the sports world.

And found his way in by calling games, games that he could not see.

I'm Pablo Torre, it's Friday, May 27th.

This is ESPN daily.

Sam Borden, I need you to set the scene for us here.

Tell us about this basketball game that you found yourself at back in January.

So it's a cold, dank, foggy night early January.

Southern Illinois Edwardsville at Eastern Illinois.

From First Mid Court, inside Lance Arena in Charleston, it's back to basketball for the

Eastern Illinois Panthers, along with our special guest analyst, Bryce Wiler.

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