Dan Patrick
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- For the radio political commentator and author of the same name see Dan Patrick (radio host). For the racecar driver, see Danica Patrick.
Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956), better known as Dan Patrick, is a sportscaster from Mason, Ohio, United States. He attended the University of Dayton in Dayton, OH. He is currently employed by ESPN as an anchor on their SportsCenter program. He has also hosted The Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio since September 13, 1999. Starting on March 19, 2006, he became the host of ABC's NBA Nation, a pregame show for the network's NBA telecasts.
For many years, he and Keith Olbermann were arguably ESPN's most recognizable faces. Patrick used the catch phrase "Welcome to the big show" when Olbermann worked with him on SportsCenter. When Olbermann left, Patrick said, "This isn't the big show anymore."
Early life
Patrick was a basketball player in high school, becoming an Ohio all-state selection his senior year. While attending college at Dayton, he joined Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity.ESPN
In 1989, he began working at Sportscenter, where he still works as a segment contributor and also hosts The Dan Patrick Show, which airs weekdays from 1pm-4pm on ESPN Radio.His career as a sportscaster has helped him become a sportswriter for ESPN The Magazine and an actor.
Movies
He participated in several television shows, as well as movies such as 1997's The Definite Maybe, 1998's BASEketball, and The Waterboy, all as himself. He also had a cameo appearance in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler and Chris Rock. He also makes a cameo in a poker game in the movie Benchwarmers.Commercial spokesperson
Patrick appears in ads for the Wisconsin sub shop chain, Cousins Subs, talking about their 'serious subs' and making fun of their ad agency's attempts at getting their selling message across, and voices radio ads for Consort, a men's hair product line.\"En fuego\"
Patrick told about the following at the ESPN25 Silver Anniversary Spectacular.In 1994, when calling the highlights for a game in which Marv Albert described Sam Cassell as being "on fire", Dan Patrick said he was "el fuego", which he thought was Spanish for "on fire". A few months later, he received a letter from a Spanish teacher in Pennsylvania suggesting that he say that athletes are "en fuego" (on fire) rather than "el fuego" (the fire). Since then, Patrick has used "en fuego" on certain occasions when a player is said to be "on fire". Note that "en fuego" is an Anglicism in Spanish, since it is a literal translation from English, and other translations would be more fitting, e.g. prendido ("lit" or "fired up"). (Note: The phrase "en fuego" is also used by stock analyst and commentator James Cramer.)
This phrase was also mentioned in Brad Paisley's 2002 country music video "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishing Song)" with the quote "Brad Paisley, dare I say "En fuego." This video also included Jerry Springer, Little Jimmy Dickens, and Kimberly Williams (now Kimberly Williams-Paisley).
Highlights
- Sportscenter Anchor
- Dan Patrick Show
- NBA Nation, Host
Trivia
- He passed up watching Villanova's legendary upset of Georgetown in the NCAA men's basketball title game for his first date with his future wife. (Playboy 20 Questions, January 2002)
- During the 2006 NBA Draft, Patrick said jokingly that NBA commissioner David Stern was playing peek-a-boo with the anticipating crowd and panel. He later added that he liked NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue more than Stern (also a joke).
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