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son’s, too, to learn more about preparation) and watching plenty ofvaried sports and listening and watching how the commentatorswork.You can, fairly inexpensively, enrol in a local college course, eitherfull time or, like I did, part time in the evenings for a few weeks. Ageneral media course is enough for most, but you can take it todegree level if you are academically minded. In fact, a number ofcommentators run media degrees alongside working for a gamesbroadcaster, and the two help each other.It might be that you take to it easily and none of the above willapply to you, in which case, great - you’re probably a natural bornshow-off, and that’s pretty cool for the job you just chose!21