Rick Pizzo, a native of Staten Island, NY is an American sports broadcaster who currently works for the

Big Ten Network Big Ten Network (BTN) is an American sports network based in Chicago, Illinois. The channel is dedicated to coverage of collegiate sports sanctioned by the Big Ten Conference, including live and recorded event telecasts, news, analysis programs, ...

. Pizzo received his bachelor's degree from

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

, and a masters from

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...

. Pizzo is one of the original Big Ten Network hosts, alongside Dave Revsine and Mike Hall. A former collegiate hockey player and golfer at Hamilton, Pizzo is BTN's main hockey and golf host.

Previous experience

WBTW

From 1998 to 2001, Pizzo worked as a sports anchor/reporter for WBTW, Myrtle Beach, SC.

WFMY

From 2001 to 2007, Pizzo worked as a sports reporter, anchor/reporter for WFMY, Greensboro, North Carolina. While in Greensboro, he was named an Associated Press Award-winning sports reporter/anchor and taught sports broadcasting classes at Elon (NC) University.

References

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