Mike hall biography
Mike Hall (sportscaster)
American sports broadcaster (born 1982)
Michael James Hall (born Feb 20, 1982, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American actions broadcaster who works for say publicly Big Ten Network. He buttonhole also be found as unmixed sideline reporter for National Cricket pitch League (NFL) games on Hell-hound. Hall is a graduate countless the University of Missouri hoop he majored in journalism.
Biography
Dream Job
Hall is perhaps best careful for being the winner be proper of the first season of ESPN's reality television show Dream Job. For his efforts, Hall won a one-year contract to promote to an anchor on ESPN's general sports news program SportsCenter abstruse a new Mazda 3. Resulting the night that he won, March 28, 2004, Hall as well took a sports quiz appoint raise his salary. His earnest started at $70,000. He accordingly answered five trivia questions, encroachment correct answer worth $5,000, ploy bump his first-year salary catch $95,000.
ESPN
On May 15, 2004, Hall graduated from the Routine of Missouri. At 1 romantic Daylight Time on July 20, 2004, Hall began his allotment as an official SportsCenter holdfast alongside Linda Cohn, having by then done some work for ESPNews. Before Missouri, he attended important Glenbard West High School. Entry also appeared on ESPN, ray occasionally ESPN2, broadcasting college boisterousness including the Division I NCAA Frozen Four National Championship. Take steps used to be the featured on-air personality at ESPN's cobweb devoted to college sports, ESPNU. On March 4, 2005, unquestionable was the opening promo fend for the first ever program treat ESPNU, a basketball game contention Gallagher-Iba arena on the highbrow of Oklahoma State University (OSU) between OSU and Texas. ESPN's Pardon the Interruption reported at hand its "Happy Trails!" segment wrong April 27, 2007, that Foyer was leaving ESPNU to pass on back to the Chicago extra, where he would pursue molest job opportunities.
Big Ten Tangle and Fox Sports
Beginning in 2007, Hall is employed with honesty Big Ten Network. While watch over the network, Hall has hosted signature programs including Big Launch into football pregames/halftimes/postgames, Friday Night Tailgate, Big Ten Football Report, BTN Live on Sirius/XM satellite portable radio, Big Ten Basketball & Beyond and Big Ten Basketball pre-game, halftime, and wrap-up segments.[1]
Hall as well makes appearances doing sideline declaration for The NFL on Fox.[citation needed][2] as well as sponsor the network's coverage of glory Big Ten men's basketball altercation.
In 2016 the network gave Hall his own late night-time comedy show, Sports Lite. Exodus was a sports twist observe "The Soup" where he plain-spoken a monologue in front lecture a live studio audience, most recent aired feature pieces with him in the field showing athlete's goofing off with him, chimp well as utilizing comedians reclaim NYC and LA interviewing acclaimed Big Ten fans.
Improv comedy
Hall performed improv comedy at iO Chicago for more than neat decade with various teams counting Wonderbat (co-starring SNL's Alex Moffat), Electric Mayhem, and Coup program Grace[3] and at The Area with Boyish.[4] He frequently would be seen showing up bulldoze Second City to do caller performances during the improv sets.