Ernesto Jerez (born December 9, 1967 in

Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic Santiago de los Caballeros (; '' en, Saint James of the Knights''), often shortened to Santiago, is the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic and the fourth-largest city in the Caribbean by population. It is the capital of Santiago Pro ...

) is a Dominican sportscaster and commentator for

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Biography

His parents are Angel Alejandro Jerez Matos, and Dulce María Bueno Núñez. He is the third son of the Jerez Bueno family, which includes Miguel Angel, Alexandra, and Dulce. He has three children, Daniela, Javier, and Virginia Maria.

Career

He attended high school at Instituto Evangélico in his native Santiago, then participated in the AFS Exchange Student Program. He earned a

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in business at the

Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra The Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra ''(Mother and Teacher Pontifical Catholic University)'', named after Pope John XXIII's encyclical ''Mater et magistra'', which means ''Mother and Teacher'', (PUCMM for its Spanish acronym), i ...

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, Dominican Republic, in 1991. He also graduated in broadcast journalism at the Northeast Broadcast School in

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in 1995. He announced the programming schedule on commercials on the

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, a sister channel of the Discovery Channel. He was hired by

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in 1995 for '' SportsCenter International'', with Michele LaFountain, a back-then half-hour mutation of ESPN USA's '' SportsCenter''. Jerez became famous by narrating ESPN Latin America's retransmissions of ESPN USA's ''

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'' and '' Sunday Night Baseball'' with the

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''"Sólido, hacia el jardin (izquierdo, central o derecho), a lo profundoooo... y ¡no... nono, nono, no...! ¡Díganle que no a esa pelota!"'' This phrase is also played on highlight reels of the U.S. version of ''SportsCenter'', e.g. the highlights of the Home Run Derby with Sammy Sosa. He has also narrated ESPN Latin America's retransmissions of the ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

References

External links

NBA.com Espanol: Ernesto Jerez
article in English
Ernesto Jerez ESPN Bio
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKpvrorX16U {{DEFAULTSORT:Jerez, Ernesto ESPN Latin America Dominican Republic sportscasters Living people National Basketball Association broadcasters Major League Baseball broadcasters 1967 births People from Santiago de los Caballeros