Ben on-air for WPTS-FM at the 2021 ACC Tournament in Greensboro, NC
Ben’s past experience includes live event audio production for the ACCNetwork/Pitt Studios, writing as a Senior Staff Writer for The Pitt News, producing for the Just For Sport Podcast, a Digital internship at The Independent (London, Spring 2020) as well as four years with WPTS-FM, the past as Sports Director.
Ben holds a B.A. Cum Laude in Communication: Rhetoric and Political Science from at the University of Pittsburgh (2021) with a minor in Creative Writing, Non-Fiction/Journalism.
Please visit my website, bmgbobeck.com , for my latest demos and more of my work in print and online. Thank you for watching! Time Codes: Show Open: 0:15 Non-scoring streaming half-inning: 1:10 Post-game show hosting: 6:19 Radio scoring half-inning: 11:03
For a milestone end of an era, there’s a lack of finality in graduation. It’s the close of a large chapter in student’s lives, sure — but it serves more as a bookend to what comes next than a slamming shut of this period in our lives. For someone who never reveled in the rigor of classroom academics such as myself, it is almost a welcome one.
Senior center Terrell Brown stepped onto a court as a Pittsburgh Panther for 117 games. Nearly 60% of the time, the team he played for lost. Yet through 72 defeats, a revolving door of 27 different teammates, two coaches and two Pitt color schemes, Brown is still here. Among it all, Brown has stood as a soft-spoken 6-foot-10 figure among the Pitt men’s basketball program, working quietly to serve as a brick in the foundation laid by the coach who did not recruit him.
One letter can sum up Pitt baseball’s (6-1, 3-0) opening ACC series in Tallahassee: K. Rather, 27 copies of that same letter. The Panthers’ two starting pitchers rung up Florida State batters that many times combined Friday and Saturday night, leading the team to consecutive wins by scores of 1-0 and 7-2, respectively, over Florida State (2-4, 0-3).
Includes broadcast from tip-off through first time out of ACC action with Pitt hosting the Duke Blue Devils as the Panthers get off to a hot start en route to their first victory over Duke since 2016. PxP: Ben Bobeck Color: Tilman Cooper Audio recorded live on WPTS-Radio, 92.1 FM Pittsburgh
Pitt football’s equipment team has had to adjust sanitation and cleaning practices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Derek Moos was used to dealing with a certain type of face mask — the one attached to the front of a football or softball helmet or the one strapped across a catcher’s head.
Tune in each week as WPTS Sports goes into unfriendly territory for an inside look at Pitt Football’s opposition. This week, Ben Bobeck speaks with Jaylan Harrington of The Technician, NC State’s student paper for an in-depth look at who will be the Alpha under center for the Wolfpack this week, as well as what to expect and players to watch for NC State’s defense.
What has followed is a remarkable turnaround for both programs, once mired in competitive disadvantages since the competitive leap from the Big East to the ACC. In his fourth season at the helm of the men’s program, Vidovich steered the Panthers to their first NCAA tournament appearance and tournament win since 1965 with a 2-0 victory over Lehigh in fall 2019...... Meanwhile, on the women’s side of Ambrose Urbanic Field, the home pitch for both programs, Waldrum orchestrated a roster turnover that saw 21 new arrivals on campus this past season, including 17 first-years. Inexperience be damned, Waldrum and his Panthers broke the program’s three-year conference-win drought, while showing marked competitive improvement down the stretch of conference play.
The Panthers hope to take another step toward the ultimate goal set by head coach Pat Narduzzi to add a 10th national title to a trophy case barren of recent additions.
During the heyday of Pitt men’s basketball in the Big East conference — the period in which former head coach Jamie Dixon’s teams appeared in eight straight NCAA Tournaments between 2004 and 2011 — nearly every borough of New York City was represented on the Panthers’ roster.
There’s no time like the insular present to kick that betting “habit” — which seems impossible to rid yourself of when there’s normally something to wager on at any time of the day. If you’re allowed, take a nice walk outside, find something interesting to watch online or maybe try to recreate some of your all-time bad beats in your sports video game of choice. But if you find yourself desperately looking to scratch the itch, here are a few options that might satisfy your gambling urges.
Perhaps Rob Manfred would like Vince MacMahon’s job. The latter’s position as the head of entertainment giant WWE — emphasis on entertainment, as opposed to sport — is surely secure. But the current Major League Baseball commissioner has demonstrated such a flair for seeking out unnecessary dramatic elements to add to America’s pastime that perhaps he could give ol’ Vince a run for his money as America’s greatest showman. The latest ploy from Manfred in his ongoing efforts to increase television revenue for baseball among declining attendance and decreasing TV numbers is to introduce an expanded playoff format whose centerpiece would be a live selection show in which each league’s second- and third-seeded division winners choose their first-round opponent live on TV for the whole world to see, per the New York Post.
As part of the Top 10's of the 2010's, Michael Hamby and Ben Bobeck count down the top 10 players in Pitt Football of the decade!
Since being introduced as the first head coach of Pitt’s inaugural varsity women’s lacrosse team in late June, Emily Boissonneault has been a coach without a team, without a staff and without more than one jersey to show off to visiting recruits.
Most first-year students spend their first week at school trying to get acclimated to their new environment — buying books, figuring out the locations of classes and meeting new friends. But first-year forward Amanda West has looked right at home since the moment she stepped on the field for Pitt women’s soccer, leading the team like a veteran and re-writing the team record books along the way.
When Darragh Johnston took over as president and captain of the the Panther Hurling Club team in 2018, he didn’t know if it would be able to field a full 11-man team, much less compete for a national title. One semester of intense recruiting, development and improvement later, Johnston, a junior chemical engineering major, was handed the trophy for the National Collegiate Gaelic Athletic Association Hurling National Championship following Pitt’s victories over UNC and Purdue in the final stages of the tournament on Jan. 20. “I was worried, honestly, that I would be the president that saw it all come to an end,” Johnston said. “That it would be under my tenure, that I would be the president that hurling club ends under and then fast-forward four months later, I’m the first hurling president with a national championship.”
Mike Hamby is (finally) back! Bringing you all the latest sports conversations from around the US. Joining him this week are John Bouchard, Luke Olander, Stuart Blair, and returning Champion Ben Bobeck. They will be discussing NBA rookies that are destined for greatness, a wonderful World Series clash, and who is the main man at QB for the Pitt Panthers the rest of this season. All this and more on this weeks episode of the Ten Minute Drill.
