David Lane Barnett was born on April 27,1958 and is a play-by-play broadcaster who calls Big 12 baseball games on Fox Sports 1, college basketball on American Sports Network, and football and men's basketball for the University of North Texas.
11 Facts About Dave Barnett
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Dave Barnett has formerly been an ESPN personality and a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Texas Rangers.
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On May 26,2011, the Rangers announced that Dave Barnett would be replacing John Rhadigan as the Rangers television play-by-play announcer.
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Dave Barnett began speaking again as if nothing had happened, and he finished the game without further incident.
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Dave Barnett further stated that he had no knowledge of what had happened until his wife called him the next morning and told him about the national attention that he was receiving.
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Dave Barnett never returned to the Rangers' broadcast booth after the June 18,2012 incident.
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On July 2,2012, Dave Barnett said in a statement that he was taking an indefinite medical leave of absence that he expected would last for the remainder of the 2012 season.
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Dave Barnett said in a telephone interview at the time that medical specialists were in disagreement as to what had caused his problem.
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On September 4,2012, Dave Barnett announced that he would do the television play-by-play for two football games of the University of North Texas, the school from which Dave Barnett graduated in 1979.
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Dave Barnett has twice won UPI Radio Commentator of the Year awards.
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Dave Barnett is married with two children and lives in Lantana, Texas.