VIDEO: Texans' "Voice" has seen some of the best HS players of the last three decades
To announce a title-clinching game for the team with which you're partnered, on-the-air live and painting word-pictures of the glorious moment, is a dream come true. Marc Vandermeer stepped into the eye of the Hurricanes, so to speak, at just the right time: in three years in Coral Gables, Fla., as the University of Miami's full-time broadcaster, he describes the 'Canes national title wins in football and baseball. His announcing quality was NFL-worthy, but it didn't hurt that Miami was on the NCAA's biggest stages in two sports. Here in Houston, as the only radio announcer the Texans have ever had, his game calls have been consistent winners whether the ballclubs' fortunes were ebbing or flowing. In this newest edition of the VYPE Summer Series presented by Xfinity, Roger Smith gets Marc to talk about some of the great talents he's seen perform, what it's like to announce in the NFL, and even some of his announcing jobs before he got to "The U."
VYPE Summer Series presented by Xfinity: Kempner Baseball
The resurgent Kempner Cougars won nine of their first 10 baseball games in 2020 before COVID-19 cut the season short. Waiting - impatiently - for a chance to get back on the mound are a remarkable number of former KHS pitchers, several of whom have kept alive the dream of someday pitching in MLB. In the continuing VYPE Summer Series presented by Xfinity, Roger Smith grills Toronto Blue Jays minor leaguer Simeon Woods-Richardson, a panel of other ex-Coogs, and the pitching "guru" who developed them at KHS, Head Coach Eric Folkerts.
VYPE Summer Series presented by Xfinity: Kempner Baseball
The resurgent Kempner Cougars won nine of their first 10 baseball games in 2020 before COVID-19 cut the season short. Waiting - impatiently - for a chance to get back on the mound are a remarkable number of former KHS pitchers, several of whom have kept alive the dream of someday pitching in MLB. In the continuing VYPE Summer Series presented by Xfinity, Roger Smith grills Toronto Blue Jays minor leaguer Simeon Woods-Richardson, a panel of other ex-Coogs, and the pitching "guru" who developed them at KHS, Head Coach Eric Folkerts.
VYPE Summer Series presented by Xfinity: Kempner Baseball
The resurgent Kempner Cougars won nine of their first 10 baseball games in 2020 before COVID-19 cut the season short. Waiting - impatiently - for a chance to get back on the mound are a remarkable number of former KHS pitchers, several of whom have kept alive the dream of someday pitching in MLB. In the continuing VYPE Summer Series presented by Xfinity, Roger Smith grills Toronto Blue Jays minor leaguer Simeon Woods-Richardson, a panel of other ex-Coogs, and the pitching "guru" who developed them at KHS, Head Coach Eric Folkerts.
VYPE Summer Series presented by Xfinity: Ridge Point Baseball Part 2
The Ridge Point Panthers' COVID-interrupted journey to the UIL state baseball tournament, had they reached the semifinals again as they did in 2019, would've continued June 12 on a perfect, unseasonably cool day in Round Rock. Roger Smith sits down with 2020 RPHS grad Jacob Garcia (St. Edwards commit) and junior-to-be Justin Vossos (committed to Texas A&M) to talk about the Panthers' unfinished season in this episode of the VYPE Summer Series presented by Xfinity.
VYPE Summer Series presented by Xfinity: Ridge Point Baseball Part 2
The Ridge Point Panthers' COVID-interrupted journey to the UIL state baseball tournament, had they reached the semifinals again as they did in 2019, would've continued June 12 on a perfect, unseasonably cool day in Round Rock. Roger Smith sits down with 2020 RPHS grad Jacob Garcia (St. Edwards commit) and junior-to-be Justin Vossos (committed to Texas A&M) to talk about the Panthers' unfinished season in this episode of the VYPE Summer Series presented by Xfinity.