Brad Sham

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Brad Michael Sham (born August 16, 1949) is an American

sportscaster who is known as the "Voice of the Dallas Cowboys".[1] Sham is currently the play-by-play announcer on the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network
.

Biography

Sham has been with the Cowboys since 1976, when he was hired to be their color analyst alongside play-by-play man

ISBN 0762727594). He also contributes weekly columns to dallascowboys.com. The 2009 season marked Sham's 30th year with the organization; the longest of any broadcaster with the team, albeit not consecutive due to his three-year absence from the club from 1995–97. During his absence from the Cowboys, Sham called Texas Rangers games on the radio with Eric Nadel
between 1995 and 1997.

Sham has done NFL play-by-play for the

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and college football. He spent over a decade as the radio voice of the Texas Longhorns' football and basketball teams (mostly in the 1980s), which also aired on flagship KRLD and on the Mutual Southwest Radio Network. Sham has been in the booth for 26 Cotton Bowl Classics, calling play-by-play for 25 games and serving as the analyst for one. He has also served as a play-by-play broadcaster for the Big 12 Network basketball Saturdays, as well as for select ESPN
Network Big 12 games.

Sham has also worked

Nagano, Japan
.

Sham made his acting debut in the 2008 movie, W.[3]

Honors

Sham has won the

NSSA Texas Sportscaster of the Year award 11 times and is a member of the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.[3] He was inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame
in 2020.

Personal life

Sham is

Jewish.[4] Cory Provus, broadcaster for the Minnesota Twins, is his cousin.[5] He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1970.[3] He was a brother of the Alpha Epsilon Pi
fraternity. In the 1980s he owned a sporting apparel store named Brad Sham’s Big League Threads.

References

  1. ^ Fisher, Mike (September 17, 2019). "A Cowboys voice night off in Week 4, with Ted Emrich stepping in for Brad Sham". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
  2. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "1982 05 22 SAN DIEGO SOCKERS AT MONTREAL MANIC NASL". YouTube.
  3. ^ a b c "Brad Sham". WestwoodOne. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Brad Sham to Call Yom Kippur, Tony Romo". Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  5. ^ Johnson, Jeff (January 23, 2019). "From Santo and Hughes, to Uecker and Mauer, Minnesota Twins voice Cory Provus has experienced a lot". The Gazette. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
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