The Journal

Issue date: 2/23/06 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Martin Ribaudo Webster Junior Phil Hearn rattles off stats and action during a basketball game.

Talking about sports comes very naturally to Webster juniors Phil Hearn and Matt Majikas. Sit down with either of them for a few minutes and the topic, as well as the passion behind their words, rarely changes. A fact that they hope will parlay them to jobs doing just that. But first they will be cutting their teeth on Gorlok Television.

The pair are now incorporating this sports talk proclivity by doing the play-by-play commentary at recent Webster men's and women's basketball home games for GTV.

"It's something I've been trying to get going since I got here," Hearn said.

It was a process that, though long overdue at this school, was not easy. Hearn had expressed an interest in starting a play-by-play set-up to GTV's Ben Kingsley and the two began what Hearn described as a "Phone/ email tag thing."

"I just kept on him about it," Hearn said.
Eventually Kingsley agreed, although he wanted to see what Hearn could do first. "I made a tape of me (calling) a womens volleyball game and he seemed impressed,"Hearn said.

As far as these most recent broadcasts, Hearn said overall he was pleased, but there were a couple of kinks still to be worked out.

"We didn't have any headphones and I think we were talking over each other there for a while but we're getting better," Hearn said.

The basketball season is coming to an end but the duo will be calling Gorlok baseball later this spring.

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