{"id":245,"date":"2023-04-12T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T13:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts\/?p=245"},"modified":"2025-10-10T00:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:19:50","slug":"final-fours-complete-and-espn-nesn-announcer-mike-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/podcasts\/final-fours-complete-and-espn-nesn-announcer-mike-monaco\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Fours Complete And ESPN\/NESN Announcer Mike Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this week’s Episode 43 of the “Announcer Schedules Podcast,” Mike Gill and Phil de Montmollin welcome in play-by-play announcer Mike Monaco<\/strong> of ESPN and NESN. Monaco describes his journey, his versatile schedule and the challenges of calling NHL Hockey.<\/p>\n

The guys also have a review of all the latest from the Men’s and Women’s Final Four, a discussion of Jim Nantz,<\/strong> and the future of the Final Four. Plus, they take a look at the latest announcer happenings from MLB, NHL, NBA and more.<\/p>\n

Throughout the show, a multitude of announcers from past and present are mentioned with an array of topics discussed including:<\/p>\n

*** Conversation with Mike Monaco of ESPN and NESN<\/p>\n

*** Final Four recap of UConn’s dominance in Houston.<\/p>\n

*** Jim Nantz’s legacy<\/p>\n

*** “Thank you for being my friend”<\/p>\n

*** Nantz and his first NCAA tourney game as pbp<\/p>\n

*** Final Four studio analysis<\/p>\n

*** Former Villanova coach Jay Wright’s<\/strong> ascent already in broadcasting.<\/p>\n

*** Westwood One’s radio coverage of Final Four<\/p>\n

*** Women’s Final Four from Dallas, where LSU<\/strong> captured their first basketball title (men’s or women’s)<\/p>\n

*** Ryan Ruocco on WBB pbp for ESPN\/ABC<\/p>\n

*** Masters Preview<\/p>\n

*** Bob Uecker still going at age 89<\/p>\n

*** 40 years with Seattle’s Rick Rizzs<\/p>\n

*** MLB, NBA, NHL announcer pairings<\/p>\n

Hear it all on the latest “Announcer Schedules Podcast” and make sure to follow\/subscribe to the Last Word on Sports Media feed<\/a> on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, etc.!! Plus, hear the show by clicking play below,<\/p>\n

And also find out more at www.lastwordonsports.com\/podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On this week’s Episode 43 of the “Announcer Schedules Podcast,” Mike Gill and Phil de Montmollin welcome in play-by-play announcer Mike Monaco of ESPN and NESN. Monaco describes his journey, his versatile schedule and the challenges of calling NHL Hockey. The guys also have a review of all the latest from the Men’s and Women’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4448,"featured_media":249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[75,104,140,202],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-featured","tag-jim-nantz","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-the-masters"],"modified_by":"TJ Rives","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}