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Rob Faulds (born September 29, 1955) is a Canadian sportscaster on Sportsnet. Faulds graduated from Western University and started his broadcasting career at
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in
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,
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. He then worked for CKSO radio and covered the
1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...
and the
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on location for CTV before joining
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full-time in 1995. In 1998, Faulds was part of the original Sportsnet team and would go on to host the network's flagship sports news program '' Sportsnetnews'' (later re-branded as ''Sportsnet Central''). From 2001 to 2004, he did play-by-play for
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telecasts on Sportsnet and has called regional
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telecasts for the
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and
Montreal Canadiens The Montreal CanadiensEven in English, the French spelling is always used instead of ''Canadians''. The French spelling of ''Montréal'' is also sometimes used in the English media. (french: link=no, Les Canadiens de Montréal), officially ...
. His home run call for the Blue Jays was "Whattaya think about that?". In the past, he has also called
National Lacrosse League The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is a men's professional box lacrosse league in North America. The league is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The NLL currently has fifteen teams: ten in the United States and five in Canada. The N ...
games for the network. Faulds currently calls
curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns slidi ...
and tennis, including the Davis Cup and Canadian Open for Sportsnet. On the CTV series ''
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'', Faulds was the play-by-play voice of the fictitious ''Hamilton Steelheads''. Faulds served as a fill-in host for the radio talk-show ''
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'' when regular host Bob McCown was unable to appear.


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Faulds' bio on sportsnet.ca
Canadian television sportscasters Canadian radio sportscasters 1955 births Living people People from Hamilton, Ontario Major League Baseball broadcasters Toronto Blue Jays announcers National Hockey League broadcasters Montreal Canadiens announcers Ottawa Senators announcers Lacrosse announcers Canadian Football League announcers Curling broadcasters {{Canada-tv-bio-stub