Brad Sham

Brad Michael Sham(born August 16, 1949) is an Americansportscasterwho is known as the "Voice of theDallas Cowboys".Sham is currently the play-by-play announcer on theDallas Cowboys Radio Network.

Biography

Sham has been with the Cowboys since 1976, when he was hired to be their color analyst alongside play-by-play manVerne Lundquist.Sham also held the position of Sports Director at former Cowboys Radio Network flagship station 1080 AMKRLDbetween 1976 and 1981. When Lundquist left forCBSin 1984, Sham became the lead play-by-play man, a position he has held ever since (save for three seasons in the mid-1990s). In 2003, Sham wroteDallas Cowboys: Colorful Tales of America's Greatest Teams(ISBN0762727594). He also contributes weekly columns to dallascowboys.com. The 2009 season marked Sham's 30th year with the organization; the longest of any broadcaster with the team, albeit not consecutive due to his three-year absence from the club from 1995–97. During his absence from the Cowboys, Sham calledTexas Rangersgames on the radio withEric Nadelbetween 1995 and 1997.

Sham has done NFL play-by-play for theNFL on Westwood One,theNFL on Fox,TNT Sunday Night Football,and theNFL on CBSfor one game in 2004. He has also worked games forNFL Europeand theArena Football League'sDallas Desperados.Sham has extensive experience broadcasting collegiate sports, having done play-by-play for NCAA athletics, most notably theNCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championshipand college football. He spent over a decade as the radio voice of theTexas Longhorns' football and basketball teams (mostly in the 1980s), which also aired on flagship KRLD and on the Mutual Southwest Radio Network. Sham has been in the booth for 26Cotton Bowl Classics,calling play-by-play for 25 games and serving as the analyst for one. He has also served as a play-by-play broadcaster for theBig 12 Networkbasketball Saturdays, as well as for selectESPNNetwork Big 12 games.

Sham has also workedMajor League Soccergames for the Dallas Burn (nowFC Dallas) andNorth American Soccer Leaguegames for theDallas Tornado.He also provided color commentary for ESPN's coverage of the NASL in 1982.He also was part of the crew that covered the1998 Winter OlympicsinNagano, Japan.

Sham made his acting debut in the 2008 movie,W.

Honors

Sham has won theNSSATexas Sportscaster of the Year award 11 times and is a member of theTexas Radio Hall of Fame.He was inducted into theTexas Sports Hall of Famein 2020.

Personal life

Sham isJewish.Cory Provus,broadcaster for theMinnesota Twins,is his cousin.He graduated from theUniversity of MissouriSchool of Journalismin 1970.He was a brother of theAlpha Epsilon Pifraternity. In the 1980s he owned a sporting apparel store named Brad Sham’s Big League Threads.