Prep basketball wears me out. All that pep. All that screeching.
But dollar for dollar, there’s no better sports value, especially when it comes to state tournament time. FSN Rocky Mountain is all about Saturday’s Colorado High School Athletic Association finals.
The network’s so pumped up about it, it’s bringing back ace play-by-play man Drew Goodman from spring training with the Rockies to do the boys’ 4A and 5A finals from Coors Events Center in Boulder (airing at 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday, FSNRM). He’ll have the reliable Bill Hanzlik at his side.
Keith Bleyer and Ceal Barry handle the girls’ 4A and 5A games at 1:30 and 3 p.m.
The telecast of both boys’ games will be on a one-hour tape delay because the network also is covering the Big 12 Conference women’s championship game, starting at 5 p.m.
Gone to the mtn.
Good luck finding the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament, which starts today in Las Vegas, on your TV.
Air Force meets Wyoming at 3:30 p.m. and it’s Colorado State-San Diego State at 9:30 p.m., but all the games are on the mtn., the nearly invisible sports network (Comcast digital cable channel 411). If your cable or satellite system carries it, you’re among the privileged few.
New voice for Rockies
KOA 850-AM’s Alan Roach gave up his gig as public-address announcer for the Colorado Rockies after 14 years, citing “my commitment to my children.”
Baseball is a major commitment, too. Eighty-one home games a season – and the announcer can’t get up and leave in the fifth inning.
By Wednesday’s application deadline, the Rockies received nearly 200 résumés. They hope to choose a new Coors Field “voice” by March 16.
Around the dial
Fans of DU hockey can catch the Pioneers’ WCHA playoff games on radio against Wisconsin on ESPN 1600-AM (7:30 tonight) and on KKFN 950-AM (7 p.m. Saturday and, if necessary, Sunday) … End of the line?: Colorado meets Texas Tech in the first round of the Big 12 basketball tournament (1 p.m. today, Altitude) … Drew Goodman zips back to Arizona for a spring-training game featuring the Rockies against Kansas City (2 p.m. Sunday, FSNRM) … ESPN has extended analyst Peter Gammons’ contract as part of “Sunday Night Baseball.” Gammons, inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2004, joined ESPN in 1988 … Wladimir Klitschko (47-3) and Ray Austin (24-3-4) fight for some version of the heavyweight championship in Germany (8 p.m. Saturday, HBO). … Quotable: “What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.” John Wooden
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-954-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
