Dan Patrick
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Image:DPatrick.jpg Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956), better known as Dan Patrick, is a sportscaster from Mason, Ohio, United States. He attended the University of Dayton in Dayton, OH. He is currently employed by ESPN as an anchor on their SportsCenter program. He has also hosted The Dan Patrick Show on ESPN Radio since September 13, 1999. Starting on March 19, 2006, he became the host of ABC's NBA Nation, a pregame show for the network's NBA telecasts.
For many years, he and Keith Olbermann were arguably ESPN's most recognizable faces. Patrick used the catch phrase "Welcome to the big show" when Olbermann worked with him on SportsCenter. When Olbermann left, Patrick said, "This isn't the big show anymore."
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Early life
Patrick was a basketball player in high school, becoming an Ohio all-state selection his senior year. While attending college at Dayton, he joined Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity.
ESPN
In 1989, he began working at Sportscenter, where he still works as a segment contributor and also hosts The Dan Patrick Show, which airs weekdays from 1pm-4pm on ESPN Radio.
His career as a sportscaster has helped him become a sportswriter for ESPN The Magazine and an actor.
Movies
He participated in several television shows, as well as movies such as 1997's The Definite Maybe, 1998's BASEketball, and The Waterboy, all as himself. He also had a cameo appearance in the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard with Adam Sandler and Chris Rock.
"En fuego"
Patrick told about the following at the ESPN25 Silver Anniversary Spectacular.
In 1994, when calling the highlights for a game in which Marv Albert described Sam Cassell as being "on fire", Dan Patrick said he was "el fuego", which he thought was Spanish for "on fire". A few months later, he received a letter from a Spanish teacher in Pennsylvania suggesting that he say that athletes are "en fuego" (on fire) rather than "el fuego" (the fire). Since then, Patrick has used "en fuego" on certain occasions when a player is said to be "on fire". Note that "en fuego" is an Anglicism in Spanish, since it is a literal translation from English, and other translations would be more fitting, e.g. prendido ("lit" or "fired up"). (Note: The phrase "en fuego" is also used by stock analyst and commentator James Cramer.)
This phrase was also mentioned in Brad Paisley's 2002 country music video "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishing Song)" with the quote "Brad Paisley, dare I say "En fuego." This video also included Jerry Springer, Little Jimmy Dickens, and Kimberly Williams (now Kimberly Williams-Paisley).
Highlights
- Sportscenter Anchor
- Dan Patrick Show
- NBA Nation, Host