Dave Revsine (born July 20, 1969 in

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), is an American sportscaster, and sports columnist and journalist who currently serves as the lead studio host for the Big Ten Network. Previously, he was a

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anchoring on '' SportsCenter'' and

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, along with play-by-play on select college basketball games.

Biography

Revsine attended

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and graduated

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from

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in 1991. While at Northwestern, Revsine was heavily involved in broadcasting and became a sportscaster on

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Radio. Awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, Revsine lived abroad for a year after college. As a Rotary Scholar he attended Trinity College, Dublin and played on the school's basketball team. Prior to becoming a sports journalist, Revsine was an

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at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City. He worked there for one year prior to landing a job on TV as a Sports Anchor and Reporter at KXII-TV in Sherman, Texas. Shortly after, he worked in the

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for

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affiliate

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before being hired by ESPN in 1996.

ESPN

In his 10 years at ESPN, Revsine covered a wide range of programs including SportsCenter, College GameNight,

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, NHL2Night and Outside the Lines. He also did play-by-play for roughly 25 college basketball games each year on

and

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Big Ten Network

In May, 2007, he announced his departure from ESPN to join the Big Ten Network as their lead studio host. Revsine officially left the network in late June of that year. His words were the first ever on the Big Ten Network: ''“Eleven schools, 252 varsity teams, one great network to cover it all. Welcome to the Big Ten Network, your ultimate source for Big Ten sports, featuring the games, passion and tradition of the nation’s foremost athletic conference.”'' – August 30, 2007 Currently, Revsine hosts Big Ten Tonight and Big Ten Football Saturday on the Big Ten Network as well as the NFL Mobile Gamecenter on Sprint Exclusive Entertainment. Revsine is also the author of the Numbers blog on BigTenNetwork.com and is featured on Comcast.net College Hoopla at win.comcast.net.

Author

In 2014, Revsine's first book, "The Opening Kickoff: The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation", was released. It has received widespread critical acclaim, and made both ''

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References

External links

Dave Revsine bio and interview at Big Ten Network siteDave Revsine, BTN studio host anchor at Twitter
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