Peter Sagal

This is, of course, if you don't know, it is the Harvard of broadcasting schools.

But I'm curious, how do you learn

to do sports broadcasting?

Like, what are the skills you have to study?

You know, you cannot learn it in a classroom.

You want to get as good and as well-rounded an education as you possibly can, and to be a reader, because it improves your appreciation of language and terms of phrase, and the broader your frame of reference is, the more you can bring to bear where appropriate in a sports broadcast or any kind of broadcast.

But the only way you actually learn to be a broadcaster

is by doing it.

You can't sit there in a classroom and learn it.

You just have to find out if you have a knack, and then you work on that knack as you move along.

So, okay, you're a Hall of Fame broadcaster, an absolute legend in the industry.

Nobody's perfect all the time.

Can you remember a time when, like, you just blew it on live TV?

Oh.

My.

Yes.

Now, I realize it's NPR.

Yes.

Do you want the unedited version?

Give us the MTV version.