The Big West Media Personalities

The Big West employs a bevy of top-notch media personalities to provide analysis and commentary across The Big West Championships landscape. The first duo to take to the airwaves will be Tim Neverett and Tom Feuer as they call the 2021 Men's & Women's Cross Country Championships from Davis, Calif. The races are set for Oct. 29, and a 30-minute recap show will premiere on ESPN+ the following week, on Nov. 5. Nov. 2 and 3 will see the basketball minds take to the airwaves for the men's and women's preview shows. Krista Blunk is joined by Tammy Blackburn to talk women's hoops on ESPN+ on the 2nd. The following day, Richie Schuleer and Tim Neverett  break down the upcoming Big West men's basketball season.
 
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Tim Neverett, Play by Play

2021-22 will be Tim Neverett’s first season handling play-by-play responsibilities for Big West Championships. He is currently a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ broadcast team where he handles play-by-play duties for a select number of games on both television and radio.

Neverett previously served as the radio play-by-play voice of the Boston Red Sox for three seasons (2016-18) following a seven-year stint as the radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Before joining the Pirates, Neverett spent four years working for FSN Rocky Mountain, including as a studio host for Colorado Rockies games during the 2008 season. He also served the network as a play-by-play announcer for Rockies games, college football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, arena football, and track and field. In addition, Neverett hosted talk shows for both the nationally syndicated Sporting News Radio Network and ESPN 560 in Denver, Colorado, where he was named the 2005 Best Radio Sports-Talk Host by Westword magazine. Prior to his time in Denver, Neverett lived in Las Vegas, calling games on radio and TV for the Padres’ and Dodgers’ Triple-A teams as well as Las Vegas’ International Hockey League team and the UNLV baseball and football teams. Neverett, who began his broadcasting career in 1985 with Pittsburgh’s Double-A affiliate Nashua, also called baseball, softball, basketball, and soccer as well as hockey and skiing during four Olympic Games from 2002-2008.

Neverett played college baseball at Emerson College in Boston, and he and his wife Jessica have three sons: Matthew, Kyle and Drew.

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Tammy Blackburn

A  multitalented broadcaster, Tammy Blakburn can often be seen on Pac-12 Networks as an analyst for women's soccer, volleyball, basketball and softball. Blackburn was a two-year captain of the San Diego State women's basketball team and a four-year starting guard for the Aztecs. She led her team to two NCAA appearances and two regular season and conference championships. In 1994, San Diego State unveiled a perpetual award, The Tammy Blackburn Award, which is given annually to a student-athlete demonstrating academic and athletic prowess.

Tammy was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in 2017, and after a year of treatment, doctors said the disease was behind her. Unfortunately, she was diagnoed with stage four metastatic breast cancer just six months later. As she underwent treatment, Blackburn began to wonder if there was an unmet need among SDSU students affected by cancer. She didn't want students to be forced to decide bewtween school and medical bills. When financial aid administrators confirmed her suspicions, she settled on a name for what she would create - the Wallace Shatsky Blackburn Courage Through Cancer Fund, named for the UC San Diego Health doctors who saved her life.

Blackburn's broadcasting career has included color analysis for Fox Sports, ESPN, ESPNU, CBS Sports Network and the SDSU Aztecs women's basketball radio team, where she got her broadcasting start.

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Krista Blunk

Krista Blunk is in her first season on The Big West broadcast team. She has over 25 years of broadcasting experience, covering a variety of sports as a Play-by-Play, Analyst, Host and Reporter.  

She most recently served as a Play-by-Play with NBC’s Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic coverage.   Her responsibilities included broadcasting for six sports (Judo, Fencing, Shooting, Canoe Slalom, 20K Race Walk and Artistic Swimming), as well as Women’s and Men’s Wheelchair Basketball.  She has also covered Men’s and Women’s basketball, the WNBA Playoffs, college football, NWSL and college soccer, volleyball, softball and track & field.

Blunk has also appeared as a play-by-play announcer on Pac-12 Network since she appeared on the network’s first live broadcast in 2012.  She has been the Sideline Reporter with Westwood One Radio the past 10 seasons, covering the NCAA Women’s Basketball Final Four, and has also Co-Hosted for SiriusXM’s Pac-12 Radio and SiriusXM’s College Sports Women’s Selection Show. She has been an announcer with ESPN, NBCSN, CBSSN, Fox Sports, Comcast Sports Network, NBA Tv and Oxygen.

Blunk was an analyst with the WNBA’s Sacramento Monarchs for 13 seasons.  She was also a Co-Host for the Sacramento Kings pre and post-game show “House Party Live” for two seasons.  Prior to her move to Sacramento, she worked as an intern and PA for two seasons with the Golden State Warriors radio broadcast team.

Blunk’s broadcast career started in Indiana, where she earned a full ride scholarship to play basketball for the University of Evansville.  She finished with honors and a degree in Telecommunications and started her TV career at the local NBC and Fox affiliates.  She played two seasons of professional basketball prior to moving to the west coast; one in Australia and the other with the WBA in Louisville, Kentucky. 

Blunk is an Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame Silver Anniversary Inductee and a Tell City High School Hall of Fame Inductee.

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Tom Feuer, Color Analyst

Tom Feuer joins The Big West broadcast team as the color analyst for The Big West Cross Country Championships. He has been commentating on track and field, cross country and road racing for the better part of three decades. Most recently Feuer was the analyst on NBC’s coverage of the race walks at the 2020 Olympic Games. He has also appeared on ESPN, Fox Sports, KTLA and Pac-12 Network.

Feuer has also been an Executive Producer/Producer/Associate Producer with a career that included professional stops at Fox Sports, Turner Sports, ESPN and NIKE among others. His full-time experience has included sports marketing, communications, production management and various jobs in the live sports production realm.

Feuer spent 11+ years at Fox Sports as the Executive Producer of first, Fox Sports Northwest, and then the two regionals in Los Angeles, Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket.

In addition to his full-time work, Feuer has also freelanced as a live event producer on some big-ticket events including 12 Olympic Games. As a track and field producer he has been involved with three World Championships and four Olympic Games.

Feuer has won four national and 15 regional Emmy awards for his work as well as 12 National Telly awards, and, most recently, won the Grant Burger Media Award from the American Volleyball Coaches Association.

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Richie Schueler

Richie Schueler has covered Big West Basketball for most of the last decade. He is currently a college basketball analyst on the ESPN Family of Networks, Fox Sports, Stadium, and  Spectrum with additional experience on ACC Network Extra, SiriusXM, and various other television and radio outlets. Since 2012, he has extensively covered several different conferences across the nation, particularly the Big West, Mountain West, West Coast (WCC), Pac-12, and Big South Conferences.

As a college basketball coach for ten years, Schueler spent time at all three NCAA levels: Austin Peay State University (NCAA D1), St. Andrews University (NCAA D2), and Wilmington College (NCAA D3). As Head Men’s Basketball Coach at St. Andrews University for four years, Schueler boasted a 100% graduation rate while leading his team to the best school record in 11 years. His recruiting efforts while an assistant coach at Wilmington College (Ohio) contributed to a No. 17 ranking in the 2006 NCAA Top 25 national poll. As a graduate assistant at Austin Peay State University, he was part of their conference championship team en route to competing against Louisville in the 2003 NCAA Tournament.

Schueler is the founder of PhD Hoops, an organization that actively benefits both basketball players and coaches across the world. He is a USA Basketball Gold Licensed Coach, licensed FIBA-approved coach (International Basketball Federation), a member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), a lifetime member of the National Sports Media Association (NSMA), and has actively instructed in nearly 100 basketball camps and clinics around the world. He is regularly contracted as an Event Director/Talent Evaluator for showcases across the United States. In addition, his nonprofit company, Sentence With A Purpose (S.W.A.P.), strives to conduct positive work inside of prisons with the help of other basketball players and coaches.

The Cincinnati, Ohio, native was a member of the Evansville Men’s Basketball team (Missouri Valley Conference) under Hall of Fame coach Jim Crews, former head coach at Evansville, Army (West Point), and Saint Louis where he was honored as the 2013 NABC Coach of the Year. During his playing career, Schueler played on two international basketball tours with Athletes in Action in addition to being selected to play for the Svjetlost Brod A1 Pro Basketball League in Croatia.

He is also well experienced in Sports Production, working in choreography as the Sports Coordinator on Television/Film sets.