20 Facts About Sean McDonough

Sean McDonough was born on May 13,1962 and is an American sportscaster, currently employed by ESPN and the WEEI Boston Red Sox Radio Network.

The son of Boston Globe sportswriter Will McDonough, McDonough graduated from the S I Newhouse School of Public Communications of Syracuse University in 1984 with a degree in broadcast journalism.

Sean McDonough was a sideline reporter from 1984 to 1985 and a play-by-play announcer from 1986 to 1987.

Sean McDonough continued announcing broadcast Red Sox games through the 2004 season, moving over the years to various local stations, including WFXT, WABU, and WLVI.

Sean McDonough worked with Remy for nine seasons, ultimately only Friday night games, before being replaced in 2005 by NESN announcer Don Orsillo.

Sean McDonough attributed his firing to his salary and disputed talk that his "candor" was to blame.

Sean McDonough turned down an offer to become the New York Mets play-by-play man on television in 2005 before the Red Sox notified him that they would not pick up his option for 2005.

Sean McDonough began work for CBS Sports in 1990, where he broadcast college basketball, college football, the College World Series, the NFL, US Open tennis, three Winter Olympics, and golf.

In December 1999, CBS Sports President Sean McManus informed McDonough that his contract would not be renewed.

Coincidentally, that particular record would be broken four years later by Fox's 27-year-old Joe Buck, the son of the man Sean McDonough replaced on CBS, Jack Buck.

Sean McDonough called the final play of the subsequent 1992 World Series, in which the Toronto Blue Jays became the first non-American based team to win the Major League Baseball's world championship:.

Three years later, while calling the College World Series for CBS alongside Steve Garvey, Sean McDonough called another series-clinching home run.

Specifically, Sean McDonough announced many Big East college football and basketball events.

Sean McDonough has contributed to ESPN's coverage of the US Open and British Open golf tournaments, and called the 2010 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship Final Four alongside Quint Kessenich.

Sean McDonough called NCAA basketball play-by-play on March 12,2009 on ESPN between UConn and Syracuse which went into 6 overtimes, becoming the longest game in Big East history, clocking 3 hours and 46 minutes.

Sean McDonough was behind the mic for the fumbled punt in the final seconds of the Michigan State-Michigan football game on October 17,2015, that resulted in the game-winning touchdown for the Spartans.

Sean McDonough was named the lead play-by-play announcer for Monday Night Football beginning in the 2016 season.

In March 2018, ESPN announced that Sean McDonough would be leaving Monday Night Football and would return to announcing college football games.

In 2012, Sean McDonough had surgery for superior canal dehiscence syndrome which kept him from working for several months.

In 2014, Sean McDonough was named to the WAER Hall of Fame along with Bill Roth, Syracuse University's noncommercial radio station, where he began his sports broadcasting career as a student.