Dan Patrick (sportscaster)
Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1957),[1][2] known professionally as Dan Patrick, is an American sportscaster, radio personality, and actor. He hosts The Dan Patrick Show broadcast on radio on Premiere Radio Networks and streaming on Peacock. He co-hosted NBC's Football Night in America and serves as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He worked at ESPN for 18 years, where he often anchored the weeknight and Sunday 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter. He is unrelated to his partner Bill Patrick at Sports Center.
Dan Patrick
Sportscaster
1979–present
Susan White
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Early life[edit]
Daniel Patrick Pugh was born in Zanesville, Ohio, and was raised in Mason, Ohio, in a family of six children.[3] He was a basketball player in high school at William Mason High School, where he scored a single-game personal best of 36 points and earned AP Class AA All-Ohio third-team honors. He graduated in 1974.[4][3]
He attended Eastern Kentucky University on a basketball scholarship for two years before transferring to the University of Dayton, where he majored in communications. Patrick is an alumnus of the Eta Hexaton chapter of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity at Dayton.[5] His father Jack worked in the computer science department at UD until he died of cancer in 1981 when Dan was 24.[6]
Sportscasting school with Full Sail University[edit]
In late October 2017, it was announced that Patrick would be creating a Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting with Full Sail University, located in Florida.[14]
Personal life[edit]
Patrick met his wife, Susan White, when he worked at CNN and she was a producer of CNN's Inside Politics. They have three daughters and one son.[3]
He received the University of Dayton Distinguished Alumni Award in 1997[15] and was inducted into the Mason High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.[16]
Other appearances[edit]
Film and television[edit]
Patrick has made cameo appearances in many movies and TV shows, thanks in large part to his longtime friendship with actor Adam Sandler, a relationship for which he was deemed a "stooge" by David Letterman.