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place from the 2012 Missouri Broadcasters Association in sports features for a story about the high school football team in Joplin getting ready to play its first game after the devastating tornado in 2011. A few months later he was told by his boss that if the World Series made it to games 6 and 7, Carboni would get the coverage in St. louis. Through the opening games, he found himself alternately rooting for the Cardinals and the Rangers, and got his wish when Texas took three of the first five contests. That set the stage for some of the most dramatic theater in


postseason history as the Cardinals won an epic 11-inning contest in game 6, coming back from the brink of defeat a couple of times. “The noise and the intensity of those moments are definitely something I’ll never forget,” Carboni said. “Just piercing, piercing crowd noise when they made those comebacks.” When the Cardinals won the Series the following night, Carboni


was in the locker room, following the story, trying to keep the spraying champagne from stinging his eyes. It was clear that he had chosen the right profession. As the saying goes, the shoe fits.


Radio: Jessamyn McIntyre


As executive producer of ESPNSeattle (710 AM), Jessamyn McIntyre ’04 is not merely responsible for making shows go smoothly—she has to build an audience with programming that rocks. That was exactly her thinking last year when she launched a big idea: why not combine Seattle’s passion for sports and music with “Rock Meets Jock”? McIntyre’s vivacious can-do vision brought Mike McCready of Pearl


Jam to the Hard Rock Café to talk with former Seattle Supersonics legend Shawn kemp about the common ground of stage and court. Then there was Mariners’ Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson chilling with guns and Roses’ bassist Duff Mckagan in the bullpen at Safeco


Jessamyn McIntyre with Chris Egan, King 5 sports anchor and her co-host on the Seahawks post-game show ‘The Fone Zone,’ which airs on Northwest Cable News after every Seahawks game


Field. The audience just could not get enough. “It really elevated


the status of our station,” admitted McIntyre. “It gave us a little bit of a cool factor.” McIntyre’s got


quite the cool factor herself. A volleyball player for the


Springfield College Pride and a 2004 graduate, she quickly began her radio rise. She began a monthly emailing of ESPN, exercising a polite persistence that got her foot in the door. On her own, sometimes in the wee hours, she cut highlight tape, deter- mined to not get outworked by anyone. She learned to run the board, allowing her access to production work at high-profile shows such as “Mike and Mike in the Morning” and “The Dan Patrick Show.” In 2009, she moved


west to help launch ESPNSeattle, which had gotten the contract to broadcast both Mariners and Seahawks games. last year she became a sideline reporter for the Washington State football team, a role that comes to her naturally. “I was born into it,” she says with a laugh. growing up on long Island, she was a frequent presence at Hofstra games, accompanying her father, Bob, an assistant coach. She’s still going to the games, just on a bigger stage. This fall, she will be reporting from some of the most elite sidelines in the college game at Auburn and the university of Southern California. Aiming for ever-more sleeplessness in Seattle,


McIntyre with Washington State football head coach Mike Leach (Photographer: Greg Davis)


McIntyre is also taking on a new media role this year. Moving over to the TV side, she will be co-hosting a Seattle Seahawks postgame show on NBC. Very cool.


Jessamyn McIntyre in the locker room of the Seattle Seahawks


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McIntyre with ESPN Senior NFL analyst and writer, John Clayton and former Seattle Seahawks linebacker Dave Wyman


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jeSSamyn mCIntyre ’04 IS not merely reSponSIble for makIng ShowS go Smoothly—She haS to buIld an audIenCe wIth program- mIng that roCkS. that waS exaCtly her thInkIng laSt year when She launChed a bIg Idea: why not CombIne Seattle’S paSSIon for SportS and muSIC wIth “roCk meetS joCk”?


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