40 Facts About Dick Enberg

Richard Alan Enberg was an American sportscaster.

Dick Enberg announced or hosted the Tournament of Roses Parade for many years, sometimes with the help of family members.

Dick Enberg retired from broadcasting in 2016, after seven seasons as the Padres' primary television announcer.

Dick Enberg's mother was of English, French, German and Native American descent.

Dick Enberg then went on to graduate school at Indiana University Bloomington, where he earned master's and doctorate degrees in health sciences.

Dick Enberg was the play-by-play announcer for Indiana Hoosiers football and basketball games and in 1961 called his first NCAA basketball tournament event, the championship game between Cincinnati and Ohio State.

Dick Enberg was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.

Dick Enberg was named California Sportscaster of the Year four times during this period.

Dick Enberg presided over the Trophy presentation for Super Bowl VII in 1973.

Dick Enberg continued to call the occasional UCLA game for TVS through the early 1970s, usually teaming with Rod Hundley.

Dick Enberg hosted the syndicated television game show Sports Challenge and co-produced the Emmy Award-winning sports-history series The Way It Was for PBS.

Dick Enberg had run out of statistics and began to fill his radio broadcast with small talk.

Dick Enberg promised that he would sing the song if UCLA won the conference championship.

Dick Enberg sang the song following the final game of the season.

Dick Enberg anchored NBC's coverage of Super Bowl XIII in 1979.

Dick Enberg called three Canadian Football League games in 1982 during the NFL strike.

Dick Enberg wrote that on his football trips, he would read every Sporting News to make sure he was current with all the baseball news and notes.

Dick Enberg added that NBC gave him a significant pay increase as a pseudo-apology for not coming through on the promise to make him the lead baseball play-by-play man.

Dick Enberg returned to the Angels' radio booth to call 40 games in 1985, citing a desire to reconnect with the sport, which he has described as having been "in my DNA since I was in diapers".

Dick Enberg hosted NBC's pregame shows of the 1985 National League Championship Series with Joe Morgan.

Dick Enberg was in Toronto to do the pregame for Games 1 and 7 of the 1985 American League Championship Series alongside Rick Dempsey.

Dick Enberg was hired by CBS Sports in 2000, serving as a play-by-play announcer for the network's NFL, college basketball, and US Open Tennis coverage.

Dick Enberg continued to call the US Open for CBS through 2011.

Dick Enberg returned to call one match and serve as an essayist during the 2014 US Open, to help commemorate CBS's last year covering the event before ESPN took over in 2015.

Dick Enberg hosted the post-match ceremony during which del Potro requested to address his fans in Spanish.

Dick Enberg declined the request saying that he was running out of time but went on to list the corporate sponsored prizes del Potro won.

Dick Enberg came to ESPN on lease from CBS, where he already called the US Open, the one Grand Slam tournament not covered by ESPN until 2009.

Dick Enberg primarily teamed with Mark Grant on the Padres' telecasts.

Dick Enberg is the only sportscaster thus far to win Emmys in three categories, and in 1973 became the first US sportscaster to visit the People's Republic of China.

Dick Enberg was inducted into Central Michigan University's Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993.

Dick Enberg was raised in Armada, Michigan and was responsible for the naming of the Armada High School yearbook, the Regit, a name it has to this day.

Dick Enberg would be inducted into the Indiana University Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in the fall of 2006.

Dick Enberg received honorary doctorates of humane letters from his alma mater Central Michigan University in 1980 and Marquette University in 2009, and gave the addresses at both universities' May commencement ceremonies.

Dick Enberg continued to be an avid supporter of the program, often lending his voice to video presentations related to CoSIDA's annual Academic All-America Hall of Fame ceremony.

Dick Enberg was presented with the award in a ceremony during the Hall's induction weekend on July 25,2015.

Dick Enberg was the second American sportscaster to be selected for broadcasting awards from each of the Halls of Fame in professional football, basketball and baseball.

Dick Enberg penned a one-man theatrical play titled COACH, as a tribute to his former television broadcast partner and late friend, Al McGuire, the extraordinary college basketball coach and commentator.

Dick Enberg served as Chairman of the American Sportscasters Association from 1983 until 2017.

Dick Enberg was a Board Member for the Lott IMPACT Trophy, which is named after Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back Ronnie Lott and is given annually to college football's Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year.

Dick Enberg died on December 21,2017, in La Jolla, California, from a suspected heart attack.