| Dave now also does the TV play-by-play for the UFL on Versus. Dave's baseball and football schedules currently preclude remaining as active on the college sports scene, where he called basketball games for ESPN Regional and ESPN from 1991 to 2009, and called Big East Football action on ESPN Regional from 1997-2007. Until 2008, Dave also hosted "Inside the Big East", a syndicated show that premiered in 2004 and focused on Conference Basketball and Football.
On the radio you can hear Sims calling Sunday night NFL play-by-play action for Westwood One Radio Sports, where he has been calling NFL games since 1994. Dave also broadcasts college basketball games for Westwood One, including men's NCAA tournament action. Sims' other radio duties include "Basketball and Beyond with Coach K", a weekly show on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio that he co-hosts with Duke University and Basketball Hall of Fame Coach, Mike Krzyzewski.
One of Dave’s off-camera professional pursuits is AthletiSense™, a communications & media relations life skills program that he established with his wife, Abby. Dave and Abby work with Division One varsity athletes as well as professionals, presenting group seminars and providing individualized communications coaching. An outgrowth of this program has been Dave’s work refining the broadcasting skills of collegiate communication majors, young sportscasters and retired athletes who aspire to careers as play-by-play voices and color analysts.
Dave had the pleasure of serving as the pre-season voice of the Philadelphia Eagles in 2004 after serving in that capacity with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the seven years prior. He initially became known in the world of sports broadcasting by hosting talk shows at WNBC-AM, WFAN-AM and the Madison Square Garden Television Network. His other work has included Major League Baseball play-by-play for ESPN and hosting “The Early Show” for Major League Baseball.com., an internet radio show. In December of 2001 Dave completed an 18-month run as host of “GameFace” for the Metro Guide Channel. During that time, “GameFace” was New York City’s only weekly prime time television sports talk show. Until giving up his duties in Philadelphia after the 2001 season, Dave hosted “Phillies Weekly” for two consecutive years and “Eagles Game Day Live” for one season. In the 1990s Dave provided play-by-play for CBS-TV’s coverage of the NCAA basketball tournament and served as a sports anchor/reporter/host for WCBS-TV in New York. Dave’s work on the local sports scene began with a seven year stint as a sportswriter for the New York Daily News following his graduation from college.
Sims won his first Emmy in 1993 in New England and the second in 1997 in Philadelphia for his play-by-play work on football and basketball respectively. Dave’s work has often been saluted. He was presented with the Big East Conference Media Award in 2005 and was honored by the American Football Foundation with the 2003 Lindsey Nelson Outstanding Sportscaster Award. In 1998 the Children’s Air Center of New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center recognized Dave with its annual Asthma Achievement Award and he was also presented with the 1995 Media Award by the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association, the group that sponsors the NIT. The New York Pro Baseball Scouts cited Dave as its Media Person of 1988, and the Tomorrows Children’s Fund of Hackensack, New Jersey named Sims Man of the Year in 1987 for his work with youngsters afflicted with cancer and blood disorders.
A Philadelphia native, Dave serves on the Board of Trustees of his alma mater, Chestnut Hill Academy, and in 2006 was inducted into its Sports Hall of Fame. Sims is a graduate of Bethany College in West Virginia where he majored in mass communications. Dave and his wife Abby, a sports media coach and orthopedic/sports physical therapist, split their time between Seattle and Manhattan. They have two adult sons.
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