Enjoy lunch for 4 people in Lousiville with former college basketball coach and current American sportscaster Bob Valvano!
Bob Valvano, like his late brother Jim, has basketball in his blood. This year's North Carolina State team shocked everyone and made it to the Final 4 for the first time for any NC State team since 1983's team coached by Jim Valvano that went on to win the NCAA Championship!
Bio:
During the college basketball season, he is the lead game analyst for ESPNRadio, and occasionally for ESPNU. When not doing those games, Valvano is the color analyst for University of Louisville men's basketball games on radio (WHAS 840 and WKRD 790.) Valvano began his coaching career at Hofstra University where he was an assistant to head coach Dick Berg for three years. Then he took over the head coaching position at Division II Kutztown. Valvano coached there for two years, setting the single-season record for wins his second year, before taking the head coaching position at St. Francis College in 1984. At the time of Valvano's hiring he was the youngest head coach in Division I men's basketball at 27 years old. While with the Terriers, Valvano did not have a winning season but did win the college's first postseason game in over 30 years in 1988. In 1988, he left for Sweden to coach the Alvik Professional Basketball Club. After one year in Sweden, he returned to take the head coaching position at Division III Catholic University, where his third team there had the first 20-win season in school history, (20–6), and set 6 NCAA records for 3-point shooting. Valvano then went to St. Mary's (MD), where his team had that school's first winning season ever at the NCAA level in 1994. In 1994, Valvano took the head coaching job at Bellarmine University, where his teams improved for four straight years, culminating in back-to-back winning seasons (16–11, 17–10) his last two seasons.
Valvano hosts a daily radio show (The V Show) on ESPN680 in Louisville from noon until 3 weekdays. He had hosted a late-night show on ESPN Radio (under the same V Show moniker) for over twelve years. During that time, SI's Richard Deitsch named Valvano his National Sportsradio Voice of the Year in 2012. Valvano was also named Kentucky Sportscaster of the Year in 2016. A regular segment on The V Show was the "Zero-Thousand-Dollar Pyramid," which was inspired by the Pyramid series of game shows. His show also regularly featured the "Sports Radio Match Game", based upon the 1970s edition of Match Game, complete with audio from that show.
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