Two Good Dogs

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bill Goldberg, Randy Couture, Frank Mir, Bas Rutten, Jim Brown, Frank Trigg, Jason Chambers, Ryan Bennett, Stephen Quadros, Jimmy Smith, Bruce Beck, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Joe Rogan, Bill Wallace, Michael Schiavello, Eddie Bravo, Karyn Bryant, Jeff Blatnick, Barry Tompkins, Mauro Ranallo, Mike Goldberg, Kathy Long, Francisco X. Rivera, Brian Kilmeade. Excerpt: Barry Tompkins (born circa 1940) is a well known American sportscaster. He is better known for his work as a boxing commentator, but he has covered football and another number of sports as well. Biography San Francisco, New York City and NBC Sports Tompkins began his broadcasting career as a writer and producer for San Francisco radio station KCBS in 1965, before being hired as sports director at the local CBS television affiliate, KPIX-TV . In 1974, he moved to New York to join WNBC-TV as a sports anchor and feature reporter, before moving to NBC Sports in 1975 to host weekly radio shows as well as television play-by-play for basketball and football. Tompkins returned to San Francisco in 1978 and joined then-NBC affiliate KRON-TV as sports director, while continuing to cover Pac-10 basketball for NBC as well as feature stories for its NFL pre-game show. He left KRON in 1980 to join the then-fledgling cable channel HBO . HBO At HBO, Tompkins came into much greater national prominence alongside Larry Merchant and Sugar Ray Leonard as a member of the HBO Boxing show's team. He called fights at HBO for many years and some of his commentaries became famous, such as his call when Alexis Argüello was hurt by Aaron Pryor in round fourteen of their Battle of the Champions ( Arguello...oh! Arguello is hurt!! ), when Héctor Camacho was buckled by Edwin Rosario in round five of their fight ( Camacho had never been hurt before! ) a...