![]() Upon graduation, she played professional softball in Sweden. Menaker won back-to-back Ivy League championships, was a three-time First-Team All-Ivy League pick and graduated with Cornell’s career record for doubles and ranks top five all-time in home runs, slugging percentage, RBI, runs scored and batting average. Menaker graduated from Cornell University where she was a four-year starter on the softball team and was named to the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2020. Menaker also serves as a studio host, football sideline reporter and softball analyst for Big Ten Network, where she has worked since 2017. Menaker joined Marquee Sports Network as a field reporter and studio host in February of 2020, contributing to game broadcasts and hosting pregame and postgame shows. His 61 victories with the Astros are fifth-most in franchise history among left-handed pitchers, and he was on the ballot in 1999 as one of the starting pitchers on the Astros All-Astrodome Team. In 1986, he set a club rookie record with 12 wins for the West Division champion Houston Astros, while setting a modern-day major league record, September 23 of that season, as he struck out the first eight batters he faced in the start. Prior to joining the Cubs, “JD” spent 16 seasons in the same role with the Houston Astros, receiving a 2010 Lone Star Emmy for Broadcast Excellence.Ī 12-year major league veteran, the left-handed hurler posted a 4.14 ERA in 257 games (253 starts) with the Yankees (1984), Astros (1985-91), Padres (1992), Twins (1993, 1994), Giants (1993) and Phillies (1995). Deshaies was part of Marquee’s first game broadcast as he was in the booth for the Cubs Spring Training victory at Sloan Park, February 22, 2020. For more information and to help support grants for individuals living with ALS, please visit here.ĭeshaies joined the Chicago Cubs broadcast booth as a color commentator in 2013, and 2023 marks his 11th season calling Cubs games. The charity was created in 2006 by one of Jon’s childhood friends, Tim Sheehy, who passed away from the disease in 2007. “Boog” is on the Board of Directors for Project Main St., a charity dedicated to providing financial assistance to people living with ALS. In addition to his play-by-play duties at Marquee, he will continue to serve as a multiplatform broadcaster for ESPN. ![]() He also has held play-by-play duties for both the College and Little League World Series. ![]() His time at ESPN dates to 2005, when he began doing play-by-play for select college basketball and MLB games, and he has continued in play-by-play for both sports during his tenure at ESPN. Beginning in 2010, he joined ESPN full-time, serving in numerous roles with the network, most prominently as the voice of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball for MLB on ESPN Radio, and as the regular play-by-play voice on Wednesday Night Baseball telecasts for ESPN since 2014.īeginning in 2023, Sciambi will serve as the lead play-by-play voice on ESPN Radio for the national call of the World Series, joining Vin Scully, Jack Buck, John Miller and Dan Shulman as just the fifth voice to call the World Series nationally on the radio since 1979. Sciambi previously served as a radio broadcaster with the Florida Marlins from 1997-2004 and as the lead play-by-play television announcer for the Atlanta Braves from 2007-09. Sciambi joined Marquee Sports Network as television play-by-play announcer on January 4, 2021. ![]()
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