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Award-winning sportscaster Brain Blessing is the host of Sportsbook Radio—a nationally syndicated sports gaming show that airs weekdays at 2 pm ET on SiriusXM’s SportsGrid Radio. Blessing also hosts The Linemakers at SportingNews.com and on Discovery Channel’s Velocity Network. After many years of play-by-play work, Blessing is now the play-by-play voice of Thursday Night Lights on MYLVTV. He’s called boxing for Top Rank on their world feed along with color commentary for the Las Vegas Wranglers hockey team. Blessing came to Las Vegas after a 25-year stint in Buffalo, NY. Serving as a television and radio anchor, reporter, and host, Blessing covered Western New York’s professional teams, the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, and the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres. Stationed at WIVB-TV for 14 years, he was the beat reporter covering the Bills, including their remarkable four consecutive trips to the Super Bowl. During his tenure at WIVB, Blessing earned Associated Press honors and a New York Board of Broadcasters Sportscast of the Year Award.

Mike Blewitt is currently the host of Pro Football Today and a regular contributor on In-Game Live. Blewitt is also the lead host of SportsGrid’s NFL Draft coverage. He has been with SportsGrid for nearly a decade, hosting a variety of shows across the network. When he is not being impartial during shows, you can find him rooting for the Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Yankees, and (even during leaner times) Boston College and the New York Knicks.

After graduating from Connecticut School of Broadcasting in 2009 and spending several years at WFAN in NYC, Mike Carver jumped at a chance to join Scott Ferrall’s crew on Ferrall on the Bench with CBS Sports Radio in 2016. Carver then joined Ferrall on Sportsgrid in early 2020, bringing his love for in-game and prop betting. Catch Carver on Ferrall Coast to Coast, Ferrall on the Bench, and In-Game Live.

Brian Ciano, aka Mafia, is the producer/sidekick extraordinaire of Ferrall Coast to Coast and Ferrall on the Bench, and a host of In-Game Live. Ciano has been a part of Scott Ferrall’s shows since 2006 after making an impression as an intern when Ferrall worked on Howard 101. He continued to be a friend/guest of the show until Ferrall made Ciano associate producer in the spring of 2008. In 2013, they left to help start CBS Sports Radio, where Ciano took over as Ferrall’s executive producer, and where they broadcasted on more than 175 stations throughout North America. As a sports-betting lover and the main MMA handicapper on Ferrall’s show, it was only natural Ciano would accompany Ferrall to SportsGrid to take their talks of spreads and covers to the next level.

Ariel Epstein has been with SportsGrid since October 2019. She joined the Pro Football Today team previewing the best ways to bet on the NFL every Sunday prior to kickoff. She also hosts on The Morning After from 9 am–12 pm ET. Prior to SportsGrid, Ariel was a sports anchor and reporter for WCTI NewsChannel 12 in New Bern, NC where she covered the Carolina Panthers, North Carolina Tar Heels, Duke Blue Devils, NC State Wolfpack, and East Carolina Pirates. Epstein considers it a pleasure to be part of the SportsGrid team and is confident viewers will learn more about the up-and-coming sports betting world while making a nice profit in the process.

He’s Bold. He’s Brash. And he’s extremely Audacious. For more than two decades, Scott Ferrall has been one of the most successful sports media personalities in America. For seven years he was heard every weeknight on the CBS Sports Radio Network across 175 radio stations nationwide. Before that, Howard Stern recognized Ferrall’s unique talent and fanatical following when he hired him for the first-ever show heard on the Howard 101 channel on Sirius Satellite Radio in 2006. He is one of the country’s most adept and successful sports handicappers. During the last five years, he’s had a 63% winning percentage across the NFL, NCAA Basketball and Football, NHL, UFC, and professional boxing. Ferrall’s career began on his hometown news station, KQV Pittsburgh. Stops on his career path include KLSX in LA; WFAN, ESPN Radio, and WNEW in NY; KNBR in SF; WQAM in Miami; and WCNN in Atlanta. He’s also made appearances on the small and silver screens, appearing in multiple episodes of CSI: Miami, as well as in the movies Red Belt and Big Fan. Ferrall Coast to Coast and Ferrall on the Bench air live weekdays on SportsGrid.

Keith Irizarry has been a fantasy host and analyst for CBS Sports Network on That Other Pregame Show since 2016. You can also watch him on NHL Network, MLB Network, and DAZN covering the NHL and MLB. Izizarry can be heard hosting Betting Around the Rim on SiriusXM every week. He is a Hofstra graduate and still works for his alma mater as the program coordinator for the Continuing Education Sports Journalism Institute.

George Kurtz started in this industry mostly by accident. After covering for a friend on a podcast, he was asked to be a regular contributor. Following the advice of Matthew Berry, Kurtz began writing for free for RotoWire, where work led to hosting a weekly program on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio, and allowed him to become an on-air host at SportsGrid. Currently, he is a regular contributor to In-Game Live.

Holden Kushner joined SportsGrid with more than 20 years of experience in the sports-betting radio and television industry. In 1999, he hosted a nationally syndicated radio show from the Mandalay Bay Sportsbook in Las Vegas, where he fell in love with sports betting. Kushner most recently spent 13 years as a sports talk show host and television anchor for CBS. He resides in Colorado and devotes 100 percent of his work efforts on sports betting, DFS analysis, and his on-air roles. He can be heard regularly on In-Game Live.

Joseph Lisi is a member of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA). He is a college football aficionado, hosting Football Full Circle weekly on SportsGrid. Joe also anchors SportsGrid’s NFL Draft coverage, as well as hosting College Football Today.  He is the owner of the www.goforthe2.com and is the author of Go For the 2.com “Power 5” College Football Preview available on Amazon. Joe is a former college football researcher for ABC Sports and has been featured on multiple media outlets throughout the nation. Joe has spoken as a college football expert at the SuperContest weekend for the Westgate Casino in Las Vegas (2015 and 2016) as well as for Sports Book Review at the 2018 IFBC Conference in Las Vegas Golden Nugget.

Dane graduated from Syracuse with a broadcast journalism degree and has been with SportsGrid since 2016 after appearances on SNY’s LoudMouths and Geico Sports Nite. Martinez was also part of the rap group Chronikill, and appeared on the big screen in the movies Gimmie the Loot (2013) and Tramps (2015). During the last five years, he has been featured as a host and analyst on a variety of shows and received industry recognition. His solo show Fantasy Freestyle was an FSWA finalist for best radio show in both 2017 and 2019. He also hosted RotoExperts in the Morning when that show received the same recognition from the FSGA in 2018. Known by his fans as “SPEEDZ the Spittn Statistician,” Martinez is featured on SportsGrid’s In-Game Live.

Craig Mish is a veteran of TV and radio broadcasting with more than 25 years in the industry. Known to most for his expertise in Fantasy Sports, Mish is also a Major League Baseball insider, and covers the Miami Marlins. Based out of South Florida, he has reported on and attended all the major sporting events for more than two decades, including stops at Fox Sports Florida, CBS Miami, and SiriusXM. There are few in the industry and country who match Mish’s insight and knowledge in covering Fantasy Sports and Wagering. In addition to hosting Fantasy Sports Today, he serves as a contributor to MLB Network, and hosts a Podcast called Swings and Mishes. Mish roots for three things: his fantasy team, the team he bets on, and the Florida Gators. His hobbies include records on vinyl, baseball cards, and playing the percentages (for entertainment purposes only).

Gabriel Morency has been called many things over the years: lead singer and guitarist of Homicide, Montreal Expos postgame show host, and national syndicated Radio and TV host in both Canada and the US. From Montreal and Toronto to Las Vegas, LA, and NYC, Morency has rocked them all as a mainstay in the sports betting scene since 2002—with stints at the Score Television Network, Fight Network, SIRIUS, MAV TV, the Dish Network, Fox Sports Las Vegas, and many more. He finished 8th in the world-famous Las Vegas Westgate NFL Handicapping contest in 2016. The Mayor of The Meadowlands is now on SportsGrid every weekday hosting Game Time Decisions and SportsRage Late Night.

Matt Perrault has worked in sports talk radio since he walked into the radio station on the campus of UMASS Amherst in February of 1996. A Boston native, Perrault started in professional radio in New Hampshire in 1999 hosting a Saturday morning sports show and board-operating news/talk programs for WSMN. Some 13 years later, Perrault would return home to New England where he became the General Manager of WSMN as well as afternoon show host/GM of ESPN New Hampshire. His career has spanned the country, including stops in Virginia (WINA), Huntsville AL (WUMP), Omaha (KXSP), Des Moines (KXnO), and Houston (KGOW). Perrault came to Vegas for SB Nation Radio to host Game Night with Matt, which was heard on more than 80 affiliate markets around the country including including Houston, Phoenix, Denver, Philly, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Memphis, and Las Vegas. Perrault is the host of Pushing the Odds (weekdays 12–2 pm ET) on SportsGrid.

Joe is the author of the #1 best-selling Fantasy Black Book Series on Amazon and creator of the revolutionary player evaluation tool Relative Position Value (RPV). Pisapia is a former nationally syndicated host for Sirius/XM Fantasy Sports Radio and previously won the Fantasy Sports Radio Show of The Year Award (FSGA 2016). He appears frequently on CBS TV NY on The Sports Desk Show and participates in the FLEX, LABR, and Tout Wars expert fantasy leagues. He’s also worked for Fantrax, RotoWire, The Sporting News, FanDuel Insider, and FantasyAlarm, and can be heard weekly on Diamond Bets.

Ted Sevransky—better known as Teddy Covers—has been a full-time Las Vegas professional bettor since 1998, and featured prominently in the mainstream press. Print highlights include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Las Vegas Review Journal, and Playboy magazine. Television highlights include CBS This Morning, CNBC, PBS, and Bloomberg TV. Sevransky starred in the recent sports betting documentary Life on the Line and was featured in an ESPN 30-for-30 and on Showtime’s Action miniseries. He can be heard weekly on SportsGrid’s Cover It.

A graduate and ex-football player at William Paterson University, Donnie “Rightside” Seymour has worked in the sports wagering industry for more than a decade. As a professional handicapper, he loves to watch and cap professional football and Major League Baseball. An avid Philly sports fan and passionate Miami Hurricanes supporter, he can be seen and heard daily on The Early Line, as well as heard nationally on In-Play Sports Tonight. The best advice he can give is, “You’re never too old to stop learning.”

Having always known he wanted to work in sports media, Ben Stevens went to Syracuse University to further his passion for sports. After graduating in May 2016, he received his start in sports media working in Omaha, NE at KMTV 3 News Now. Stevens became host of The Morning After after joining SportsGrid as a college basketball analyst. He enjoys any sport you can watch (or wager on) and relishes the opportunity to provide commentary and insight on how to best find value and win some money.

Cam Stewart has been in the broadcasting industry for the last 20 years and has covered every sporting event from the Masters to horse racing’s Triple Crown to multiple Stanley Cup Finals. He’s been a sports editor for newspapers as well as an on-air host in sports radio and television across North America. He can be heard daily with his longtime partner Gabe Morency on Game Time Decisions, and regularly as a host for In-Game Live. Stewart loves being on the SportsGrid team with so many amazing and like-minded people, where he’s constantly reminded that we just don’t talk about sports—we live them.

Matt Striker has spent more than 20 years both in front of and behind the camera. Whether as an on-air host, a director, writer, or producer, Striker has studied under and worked with some of the very best in broadcasting and content production. From his time under the esteemed WWE banner as well as his work with MGM, Striker has learned from the best, and it has shown in his appearances on MLB Network, syndicated radio, and as a host of Diamond Bets.

Kevin Walsh is a host and analyst across multiple shows for SportsGrid, prior to which he graduated from Iona College with a BA in Mass Communication. Walsh now serves as the host of both The Early Line and In-Play Tonight. He has represented the network across platforms such as the MSG Network and the NBA’s Twitch stream. Kevin is up-and-coming within the sports wagering industry and is thrilled to be a key part of SportsGrid’s expansion.

Scott has spent more than 30 years in the broadcasting business, including stops as a host at Mad Dog Sports Radio on SiriusXM, and on One-on-One Sports/Sporting News Radio Network. He’s also worked as a field reporter for all sports on WFAN in New York and as the Pre/Between Period/Post Game Show host for the NY Islanders Radio Network. Wetzel also has extensive radio play-by-play experience calling the action in college football, basketball, and lacrosse. He can be heard live weekday mornings on Opposite Picks.