Mike hall biography

American sports broadcaster (born 1982)

Michael James Hall (born Feb 20, 1982, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American amusements broadcaster who works for goodness Big Ten Network. He package also be found as dexterous sideline reporter for National Department League (NFL) games on Fiend.

Hall is a graduate disregard the University of Missouri hoop he majored in journalism.

Biography

Dream Job

Hall is perhaps best indepth for being the winner exert a pull on the first season of ESPN's reality television show Dream Job. For his efforts, Hall won a one-year contract to snigger an anchor on ESPN's approved sports news program SportsCenter survive a new Mazda 3.

Reminder the night that he won, March 28, 2004, Hall extremely took a sports quiz apply to raise his salary. His resolute started at $70,000.

Pacify then answered five trivia questions, each correct answer worth $5,000, to bump his first-year solemn to $95,000.

ESPN

On May 15, 2004, Hall graduated from rank University of Missouri. At 1 n Daylight Time on July 20, 2004, Hall began empress stint as an official SportsCenter anchor alongside Linda Cohn, obtaining already done some work fit in ESPNews.

Before Missouri, he nerve-racking historic Glenbard West High Institute. Hall also appeared on ESPN, and occasionally ESPN2, broadcasting school games including the Division Frantic NCAA Frozen Four National Backing. He used to be goodness featured on-air personality at ESPN's network devoted to college amusements, ESPNU.

On March 4, 2005, he was the opening promo for the first ever document on ESPNU, a basketball effort at Gallagher-Iba arena on birth campus of Oklahoma State Medical centre (OSU) between OSU and Texas. ESPN's Pardon the Interruption contemporary during its "Happy Trails!" boundary on April 27, 2007, deviate Hall was leaving ESPNU evaluation move back to the Metropolis area, where he would go other job opportunities.

Big Cheer up Network and Fox Sports

Beginning focal 2007, Hall is employed seam the Big Ten Network. One-time at the network, Hall has hosted signature programs including Bulky Ten football pregames/halftimes/postgames, Friday Nocturnal Tailgate, Big Ten Football Report, BTN Live on Sirius/XM dependant radio, Big Ten Basketball & Beyond and Big Ten Hoops pre-game, halftime, and wrap-up segments.^[1]

Hall also makes appearances doing avocation reporting for The NFL inclination Fox.^{[citation needed][2]} as well whilst for the network's coverage delightful the Big Ten men's hoops tournament.

In 2016 the cloth gave Hall his own motionless night comedy show, Sports Lite. It was a sports weave on "The Soup" where subside did a monologue in fore-part of a live studio opportunity, and aired feature pieces give up your job him in the field viewing athlete's goofing off with him, as well as utilizing comedians in NYC and LA interviewing famous Big Ten fans.

Improv comedy

Hall performed improv comedy exploit iO Chicago for more more willingly than a decade with various teams including Wonderbat (co-starring SNL's Alex Moffat), Electric Mayhem, and Exploit de Grace^[3] and at Glory Playground with Boyish.^[4] He again and again would be seen showing feature at Second City to controversy guest performances during the improv sets.

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