Marchand Sports Media The advice of legends behind Ryan Ruocco's rise to play-by-play stardom
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In the 42-minute sports media podcast, ESPN and YES’ Ryan Ruocco joins “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.” Ruocco, 38, is the voice of the WNBA and the Women’s Final Four, while also calling the NBA, the Nets and the Yankees. Here is what you need to know.
* How Marchand “discovered” Ruocco when Ruocco was a student on Fordham's WFUV station
* Ruocco's start selling steaks and doing interviews for the Yankee Stadium scoreboard
* How Fordham's Bob Ahrens and the school's alumni had such an influence on Ruocco
* The stories of how Joe Buck, Gary Cohen, Ian Eagle, Mike Breen and Michael Kay advice were the backbone of his career
* How, by 27, he was calling his first Yankee game on YES after doing stats for Kay at 21
* How he was doing updates on ESPN Radio in New York at 21
* His move into hoops when Marv Albert left YES and he got the No. 2 job on the Nets behind Eagle
* Ruocco's No. 1 play-by-player is ...
* Ruocco's very intensive vocal health regiment
* How Buck taught Ruocco to set up anticipation
* How he nearly had a bathroom issue during one NBA game
* How, at 22, Ruocco was in running to be on Dodgers crew at end of Vin Scully’s career and Kay put in a great word for him
* Ruocco's dad worked in the NFL for 34 years, allowing him to meet Bob Kraft and Roger Goodell and Brian Rolapp, among others
* Why he has done basketball and baseball instead of football
* Breen expressing pride in Ruocco’s work
* How Eagle has been like a big brother to him
* Dave Sims' career advice everyone should hear
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