CSN Staff

COMCAST SPORTSNET STAFF

A. Sherrod Blakely joined Comcast SportsNet from Booth News Services and MLive.com where he covered the NBA's Detroit Pistons for nine years. A Syracuse, N.Y. native,  Blakely has broken some of the NBA's biggest stories in recent years, including the blockbuster trade of Allen Iverson to Detroit last season. Blakely will serve as Comcast SportsNet's Celtics Insider for CSNNE.com and SportsNet Central. Prior to working for MLive.com, Blakely spent five years covering Duke, N.C. State and the ACC for the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer. Blakely is a graduate of Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Journalism.


 

Jessica Camerato joins CSNNE.com after covering the Celtics for WEEI.com and providing on-air reports for the WEEI Celtics pregame radio broadcast. She began covering the team in 2006. Jessica is fluent in Spanish and entered the Boston sports scene with the Red Sox Spanish Beisbol Network. She continues to cover the Red Sox for Diehard Magazine. Jessica is a member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association and Association for Women in Sports Media. She graduated from Quinnipiac University in 2004.


 

 

Abby Chin stays in the family, joining CSNNE from Comcast Sportsnet Northwest where she covered the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and PAC-12 football. Before heading West, Abby covered Alabama and Auburn's national championship runs from the heart of the SEC at CBS42 in Birmingham, Alabama. She returns to New England where her career began as a production assistant at ESPN working on Monday Night Football. Abby grew up playing soccer and running track and is a graduate of the University of Colorado.


 

Tom E. Curran has been a leading voice on the Patriots and the NFL since 1997. First at the MetroWest Daily News then with the Providence Journal, Curran covered the Patriots during their post-Tuna fall and Belichick-Brady rise. After four years as NBCSports.com's NFL insider and general columnist, Curran returns to the Patriots beat and his New England roots with Comcast Sportsnet.com. A regular contributor to WEEI, NFL Network, ESPN Radio, Dan Patrick Show, Jim Rome, NFL Films, SIRIUS NFL Radio, Fox Sports Radio, Pro Football Talk, The Sporting News and Pro Football Weekly, Curran's unique voice and leading-edge analysis have set him apart locally and nationally.


 

 

In March of 2002, Greg Dickerson joined Comcast SportsNet as co-host of Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight, seen live each weeknight at 6:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Dickerson joins CSN's Boston Celtics HD telecasts as courtside reporter for the 2005-06 season.

Dickerson can also be heard regularly on Sports Radio WEEI as a fill-in weekday host for the top rated Dennis & Callahan show and NFL Sunday program.

Dickerson served as in-arena voice of the Boston Celtics from 1998 to 2002 and is the alternate in-stadium voice of the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium. His career highlights include a stint as Sports Center anchor on ESPN Radio and as a studio host on Westwood One's NHL Radio broadcasts.

Arriving on the New England radio scene in 1995, Dickerson co-hosted a sports talk show with his NEST co-host Gary Tanguay on Sports Radio 1440 WWTM in Worcester and worked at WBZ News Radio 1030 in Boston.
Dickerson is a native of Milford, MA and is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston.


 

 

Kyle Draper is a veteran of TV sports and joins Comcast SportsNet from Louisville, KY where he worked as a sports reporter and then sports director at WHAS-TV (ABC). At WHAS, Kyle led the network's coverage of the University of Louisville, including the men's football and basketball teams. Prior to WHAS, Draper served as an anchor at KIMA-TV (CBS) in Yakima, WA. The Philadelphia native is a graduate of Winona State University.


 

 

As a self described impartial observer of the Boston sports scene, Mike Felger revels in his ability to play devil's advocate and singe local sports fans for their unabashed homerism. Felger has been bringing that attitude to Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight and Sports Sunday. He can be heard daily on 98.5 FM, The Sports Hub.


 

 

Mike Giardi joined Comcast SportsNet from sister network NECN where he served as weekend sports anchor and weekend host of Sports LateNight. A Norwood, Massachusetts native, Giardi began his career as the sports editor at the Falmouth Enterprise Publishing Company on Cape Cod immediately after graduating from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Giardi holds a Master's Degree in Journalism from Boston University and previously worked as sports director and lead anchor for WIVT-TV in Binghamton, New York.


 

 

Boston Celtics fans have been blessed with a fabulous tradition on the court and that excellence has continued in the broadcasting booth where Mike Gorman has served as play-by-play announcer since 1981.

The five-time Emmy Award winning Gorman, a native of Dorchester, MA, was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004. Gorman currently holds the longest tenure as play-by-play voice for a Boston professional sports franchise and, along with his telecast partner Tommy Heinsohn, makes up TV's longest running telecast duo.

Following a stint as an aviator in the U.S. Navy, Gorman began his broadcasting career at WNBH in New Bedford and WPRO radio in Providence.

Gorman grew up in Dorchester and attended Saint Brendan's Elementary School, Boston Latin, and Boston State.


 

 

Joe Haggerty has covered the Boston Bruins and the NHL for the Woburn Daily Times Chronicle over the last six seasons and does actually remember the last time the Black and Gold were favored in a playoff series. Haggerty grew up in a hockey family, but the closest he came to playing ice hockey was enrolling in an ice skating class. Haggs is old enough to remember when TV guys like Mike Milbury, Rick Middleton and Andy Brickley skated for the B's, but still young enough to think that Milan Lucic could be the next Big Hockey Thing in Boston.


 

 

Tom Heinsohn is a true representative of Boston Celtics' pride. His accomplishments as a player were recognized in the retirement of his number 15 and his induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Heinsohn donned a Celtics uniform from 1956-1965 and was a principal member of eight championship teams. Heinsohn was selected the NBA's Rookie of the Year in 1957, was a member of the All-NBA Second Team four times and was honored with six NBA All-Star Game appearances. He averaged 18.6 points and 8.8 rebounds in 654 regular season contests, and 19.8 points and 9.2 rebound in 104 post-season encounters. Heinsohn was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1985-86.

Four years after his retirement as a player, Heinsohn was appointed Celtics head coach. Like his playing career, Heinsohn's coaching tenure was punctuated by prosperity, as he directed the 1974 and 1976 squads to World Championships; won Atlantic Division crowns five times; was voted the NBA's Coach of the Year in 1973; and collected a 427-263 (.619) regular season record and a 47-33 (.588) playoff mark.

Heinsohn is now entering his 25th year telecasting Celtics basketball on FSN New England. He also handled CBS' NBA coverage for seven years and provided commentary for NCAA basketball for four years on CBS. Heinsohn and his telecast partner Mike Gorman Heinsohn make up TV's longest running telecast duo.

When Heinsohn is not covering basketball, he can be found playing golf or painting. Heinsohn is an accomplished artist whose works have graced art shows across the nation. He is also a chartered life underwriter in the insurance field.

Thomas William Heinsohn was born in Jersey City, NJ. He attended St. Michael's High School in Union City, NJ and Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. At Holy Cross, Heinsohn averaged 22.1 points and 15.5 rebounds in 81 contests over four years. During his senior season, in 1955-56, he amassed 27.4 points and 21.1 rebounds in 27 outings. He was a territorial first-round choice of Boston in 1956.

Tom lives in Needham, MA.


 

 

Trenni Kusnierek is a sports anchor/reporter for Comcast SportsNet New England in Boston, MA. She has worked in the sports journalism field since 2000 starting her career in Eau Claire, WI and since has worked in Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Boston and at the national level for MLB Network, ABC Sports and Big Ten Network. Trenni has had the opportunity to cover all four major sports, including the World Series and the Super Bowl. She has also reported from National championship games and PGA majors. Away from work Kusnierek enjoys running and has completed seven marathons including two Boston Marathons and will run her eighth race (third Boston) in April of 2013. Kusnierek also enjoys reading, photography, mountain climbing (reaching the summit of Mt Rainier in July of 2011) volunteer work and international travel. She combined the last two in January of 2011 when she traveled to India to teach English.


 

 

Rich Levine is an editor and writer for CSNNE.com. Rich has also covered sports for The Improper Bostonian, the Burlington Free Press and MetroWest Daily News. His work has also appeared on ESPN.com. Levine is a native of Sharon, MA and a 2002 graduate of Colgate University.


 

 

Former University of Connecticut and NBA veteran, Donny Marshall joined the Comcast SportsNet Boston Celtics telecast team for the 2005-06 season. Marshall will serve as the primary in-studio NBA analyst alongside Gary Tanguay. "DMarsh" will also join Mike Gorman on select road trips, and join Michael Holley for "Court Vision" on Celtics Now. Marshall's previous TV experience includes color commentary on ESPN NCAA telecasts and appearances on Hartford area network affiliates.

Marshall's six-year NBA career included seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New Jersey Nets. Marshall was the 39th overall pick of Cleveland in the 1995 NBA Draft and played in 119 NBA games.

Marshall was a steady contributor for Coach Jim Calhoun and the Huskies from 1991-94. Marshall shot 47 percent in 121 career games, averaging 9.9 points and 4.4 rebounds per game. Marshall is a graduate of Federal Way High School in Federal Way, Washington.


 

 

Sean McAdam is a nationally known sports writer with CSNNE. Formerly, he worked for The Boston Herald, The Providence Journal and ESPN.com. He is a beat writer for the Boston Red Sox, as well as a radio and television analyst and commentator in the Boston area. Following his graduation from Providence College in 1981, McAdam spent four years covering sports at WEAN, a Rhode Island radio talk station before joining the Journal as a reporter. After 23 years with the Journal, with most of that tenure covering the Red Sox beat, he left to take a similar position with the Herald in October 2008. McAdam is a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America and is eligible to vote in Baseball Hall of Fame balloting.


 

 

Jessica Moran joined Comcast SportsNet in September of 2009.  She is a native of New England, raised in Ludlow, MA and Cumberland, RI. Prior to moving back home, Jessica worked as a sports anchor/reporter for the CBS affiliate in El Paso, TX.  There she compiled several accolades for her local sports coverage, including Associated Press Awards for Best Sports Story and Best Sportscast.Jessica's got her first break into the business, as the primary sports anchor at the NBC affiliate in Rapid City, South Dakota. Jessica has always been involved with sports.  She played high school soccer and basketball. Then continued playing soccer at The University of Tampa.


 

 

Bob Neumeier, a Weymouth, MA native joined Comcast SportsNet in January 2010 as a SportsNet Central anchor. The Syracuse University graduate is well known to local sports fans as a long-time sports anchor/reporter at WBZ-TV and as a midday host on Sports Radio WEEI. Neumeier has an extensive national resume having covered some of the world’s biggest sporting events, including Sunday Night Football (NBC), NFL playoffs (NBC)  the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics (NBC), 2006 Turin Winter Olympics (NBC), 2004 Athens Summer Olympics (NBC), the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes (NBC), the NHL (NBC) and the Tour de France (CBS).


 

 

Mary is a 2008 graduate of the University of Connecticut. After college, she moved to Boston to pursue a career in sports media. She started freelancing for CSNNE.com by writing humor columns about the Red Sox in the summer of 2009. Mary later covered New England college basketball and hockey during the 2009-2010 seasons and eventually joined CSN full-time the following June. Mary now serves as beat reportercovering the New England Patriots & NFL.


 

 

Danny Picard joined CSNNE.com in November of 2009, after covering the Boston Bruins for The Boston Globe's OT magazine and New England Hockey Journal during the 2008-09 NHL season. Prior to covering the Bruins, Picard worked as a sports writer for The Boston Globe and The Patriot Ledger, and has hosted sports-talk shows on 1510 The Zone and WBNW AM 1120. He's twice been named to TALKERS Magazine's "Frontier Fifty: Outstanding Talk Media Webcasters".

Picard was born and raised in South Boston, where he still resides. He is a Boston College High School graduate, and received his Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst in 2007.


 

 

Gary Tanguay joined Comcast SportsNet in 2000 and co-hosts Mohegan Sun Sports Tonight, seen weeknights at 6:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Tanguay also anchors Comcast SportsNet's Celtics Pre- Game Live and Celtics Post Game Live. He also serves as host of the New England Patriots Radio Network, which reaches one million listeners. Tanguay is a native of Rumford, ME and is a graduate of the University of Maine.


 

 

Kevin Walsh joined Comcast SportsNet New England in 2009, as one of the original Sportsnet Central anchors.  His career has run the gamut of events big and small.  He’s covered World Series Champions at The White House, the NFL Draft, and has interviewed the greatest athletes of our time.  That’s a long way from where his sports career started in the U.S. Territory of Guam, where popular sports included spear fishing and coconut husking.  Kevin was awarded the Paul Harris Fellow Service Award in 2010 from Boston’s District Rotary Convention.  Prior to arriving in New England, Kevin did work for Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia and The Comcast Network.  His career has also taken him to Fresno, California and Hawaii.  Kevin attended Purdue University on a golf scholarship, and was an Academic All Big 10 Athlete.  When he’s not covering the New England sports scene, or playing hockey, he’s often at work on his next book.  His first published book, The Marrow in Me, details Kevin’s emotional journey to transplant, after he turned up as a very rare bone marrow match for a 16-year-old football player he’d never met.  Follow the Dog Home, released in February 2012, is the inspiring story of how Kevin and his dog found his father’s childhood home in suburban Boston, despite no prior knowledge of its location. Kevin is married with two daughters.  He lives in the Metro West Boston suburbs.