Matt Barrie (sportscaster)
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Matt Barrie is a sportscaster for ESPN's SportsCenter. He joined the show in March 2013.[1]
Prior to joining ESPN, Barrie covered high school sports for Dallas/Fort Worth's NBC-owned station KXAS-TV, then CBS affiliate WLTX and sports talk station WCOS in Columbia, South Carolina.[2]
Earlier in his career, he was a general reporter for NBC affiliate WJFW-TV in Rhinelander, Wisconsin (also serving Wausau), where a 2002 remote interview with then-Governor of Wisconsin Scott McCallum from Madison regarding cuts in state shared services in the market's Northwoods region ended with McCallum agitated about Barrie's questions, and calling him a 'dumb son of a bitch' with his microphone still hot and the satellite connection still active, thinking his connection to WJFW and Barrie had already been severed. McCallum would later apologize for the outburst.[3][4][5]
In addition to his SportsCenter duties, Barrie is the pregame and halftime show host for ESPN College Football Thursday Primetime with analysts Joey Galloway and Jesse Palmer. He is also a golf commentator for ESPN’s coverage of The Masters and PGA Championship.
Education
[edit]Barrie is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University.[2]. He was in the Sigma Chi fraternity.
References
[edit]- ^ Landry, Susan (October 22, 2013). "Off Camera with ... Matt Barrie". ESPN Front Row. ESPN. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ a b "Matt Barrie". ESPN MediaZone. ESPN. n.d. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ^ Novak, Amanda (February 28, 2002). "Governor makes on-air blunder". The Badger Herald. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^ "Wisconsin In Brief". Racine Journal-Times. February 27, 2002. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
- ^ "Scott McCallum Disparages Reporter's Parentage". Newscast excerpt from KDLH, Duluth, Minnesota. Richard Scott YouTube channel. February 27, 2002. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
External links
[edit]- Matt Barrie at IMDb
- Matt Barrie on Twitter
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