Matt Barrie is a sportscaster for

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's ''

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''. He joined the show in March 2013. Prior to joining ESPN, Barrie covered high school sports for Dallas/Fort Worth's NBC-owned station

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, then CBS affiliate

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and sports talk station WCOS in

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. Earlier in his career, he was a general reporter for NBC affiliate

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in Rhinelander, Wisconsin (also serving Wausau), where a 2002 remote interview with then-

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from

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regarding cuts in state shared services in the market's Northwoods region ended with McCallum agitated about Barrie's questions, and calling him a 'dumb son of a bitch' with his microphone still hot and the satellite connection still active, thinking his connection to WJFW and Barrie had already been severed. McCallum would later apologize for the outburst. In addition to his ''SportsCenter'' duties, Barrie is the pregame and halftime show host for

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with analysts

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and

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. He is also a golf commentator for ESPN’s coverage of The Masters and

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Education

Barrie is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at

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