Dave O’Brien has had quite a week at the microphone
Dave O’Brien holds high-profile broadcasting gigs nationally (ESPN baseball and college basketball) and regionally (Red Sox play-by-play for NESN). But even by his usual busy standards, especially this time of year, the last week has been a whirlwind, one he says he will savor for a long time.
Last Friday, along with stalwart analyst Doris Burke and sideline reporter Kara Lawson, O’Brien called the Mississippi State women’s basketball team’s staggering overtime upset of UConn, winner of its previous 111 games, in the national semifinals. Two days later, the same trio had the call of South Carolina’s victory over Mississippi State in the somewhat anticlimactic national title game.
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