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10 Worst Sports Announcers

Maxim is out with a list of the 10 worst sports announcers on television. First, who knew Maxim actually had articles, but, of course, this is really just a list with pictures and small paragraphs that are little more than a couple of sentences so I guess that doesn't really qualify as an article. The picture on the left is Samantha Lusk and she is here to remind you of why anyone would actually get Maxim.

Anyway, I don't know about you but I won't quibble too much with men that they put on the list, but I have issues with the order they're listed. First, Chris Berman is irritating without doubt, but THE worst announcer, I'm afraid not. That dubious honor is a statistical dead heat between the always annoying and ever too loud Dick Vitale and the always annoying and mostly antagonistic Billy Packer. Berman comes in no better than third behind those two.

Who might be missing from this list that deserves consideration? Dave O'Brien, ESPN's unfortunate choice as a soccer announcer. He might be a decent announcer when covering a sport he knows something about, but when covering soccer, a sport about which he knows very little and cares even less, he is little short of abominable. Pam Ward is a college football play by play announcer for ESPN that only rarely can make it through an entire game without misidentifying at least three players. I don't know if she doesn't prepare properly, has lousy spotters or just has difficulties picking up numbers, but watching a game she announces you just sit there waiting for her mistakes. Finally, also deserving of consideration for his constantly unsuccessful attempts at humor, a man who is in far too much love with himself, Kenny Mayne. Granted, he rarely does play by play but he does do horse racing and since I'm a racing fan, I am subjected to his obnoxious attempts at humor far too often then is good for me.

Full post as published by Sports Biz on July 11, 2008 (boomark / email).