What do we find in today’s P. A. Announcer News? More reason to research names, if you’re helping with commencement make sure you have each person write their name phonetically because it’s really hard to get it right on the spot. Wade Minter of the Carolina Hurricanes is a PA by night, and a software

The National Federation of High Schools has made a change to baseball rules effective this upcoming season that will affect P. A. announcers across the country.  Unlike the rules instituted on basketball a couple of years ago, these changes were made in the spirit of well-being of the athletes and we highly endorse these changes.

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association recently released a 33-page “Sportsmanship Reference Guide” which was a good idea and is filled with many great topics and items, until you open the guide and understand why Jay Bilas felt the need to troll the publication and the high school athletic association. WIAA Sportsmanship Reference Guide (PDF) In

The role of the announcer is to tell people what they need to know, however sometimes we need to give them emergency advice in an instant, that we may not know.  Don’t leave yourself in a situation of uncertainty and do an emergency scan of the facility in the event something happens. When we announce