Dave revsine biography
- Dave Revsine (born July 20, 1969), is an.
- Dave Revsine, is an American sportscaster, and sports columnist and journalist who currently serves as the lead studio host for the Big Ten Network.
- He spent 11 years as an anchor and a play-by-play broadcaster at ESPN before returning to Chicago in 2007 to help launch the Big Ten Network.
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The routine is the same every morning. I wake up, plod into the bathroom, look in the mirror, and try desperately to do something the average person does roughly 29,000 times per day. I try to blink. And every morning for the last 10 days, the result has been exactly the same. No matter how hard I try, I can?t do it.
Actually, that?s only half-accurate. I can blink my right eye fine – pretty well if I do say so myself. I can blink it to the beat of show tunes and rock anthems – even throw in a little Morse Code for good measure. Yeah, the right eye is quite impressive.
But, back to the issue at hand. The left eye. And the left eyebrow. And the left side of my mouth. Can?t move any of it.
After I spent a week battling a cold and a very odd headache, my face went numb on the night of Jan. 12, while I was attending a hockey game with my family. To say it was frightening would be an understatement. My wife and I initially thought I might be having a stroke, though a brief Googling of symptoms eased that fear. We were doing our "Tip-Off Show" the next morning in East Lan
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Dave Revsine: Football Firsts
Curious about the origins of America’s love affair with college football, Dave Revsine hit the history books. With help from Northwestern University Archives, the former history major delved into the early years of college football in his new book, The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation (Lyons Press, 2014), and discovered that questions about amateurism, academic improprieties and recruiting shenanigans have been with the game from the beginning — as has its immense popularity. Revsine ’91 started writing a biography of Australian Pat O’Dea — a University of Wisconsin kicker who booted a record 62-yard field goal against the Wildcats in 1898 — and quickly stumbled onto the bigger story. “When I read that there were 50,000 people at a game in New York City in 1893, I understood why universities embraced this as a way to market themselves,” he says. “We can’t go back to the way it used to be because it never changed. It’s just the scope that’s different.&#
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Weinberg College
of Arts & Sciences
Paths: Dave Revsine '91
For former ESPN announcer and Big Ten Network host Dave Revsine, being a Wildcat runs even deeper than alumni pride.
Revsine is the son of a beloved Kellogg School professor and Northwestern sports superfan, the late Lawrence Revsine, and Northwestern has always been his home team, his Blackhawks, his Chicago Bears.
Revsine says it’s hard to separate the sports media personality he has become from Northwestern, from his days at the old WNUR radio studio where his voice first hit the airwaves and the Weinberg College classrooms where his passion for writing and analyzing facts was ignited.
“Northwestern is such a part of the fabric of my being. Truly. In a weird sort of way, I probably didn’t have much of a choice,” he jokes, noting that both his parents were alumni and deeply involved in university life. “But it turned out to be a great fit for me and helped me become the person I am today.”
After graduating with a history degree in 1991, Revsine spent a year in Dub
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