>> My name's Mark Zumoff.
I'm the TV play-by-play voice for the Philadelphia 76ers.
First of all, typically I prepare all year around, just always absorbing information.
A game day typically would be if the team hasn't played the night before a morning shoot
around -- it's practice before a game.
You get to observe the team; you talk with players and coaches.
And then I spend about three or four hours with various resources -- reliable ones on the web,
team-supplied information, that sort of thing --
and I formalize everything onto an Excel spreadsheet that I custom make.
And I do that for two reasons: One, so I have information to refer to on the air; and two,
so I can marry it up here so that I become glib and familiar with the information.
And then I get to the site about two and a half to three hours beforehand.
I confer with my producer.
We talk about what our open is going to look like.
And I schmooze with players and coaches some more.
I do the open, we do the game, and then we wrap and go home.
So it's about a 12- to 14-hour day from start to finish.
This past summer I was the play-by-play voice
for women's basketball at the Olympics in Rio for NBC.
Typically I am a broadcast coach.
So anything or anyone from college freshmen all the way up to big legal baseball announcers,
to newscasters and weather casters, they come to me for help -- either their performance,
their demo, or the all-important networking to the first job or the next job.