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Program Director Todd Bloniarz has been broadcasting Tufts athletics for WMFO since
1996, including football, baseball, ice hockey, and men’s and women’s
basketball.
Prior to that, he spent four years as the play-by-play voice for Belmont High School sports on Channel 8, the Belmont cable access TV station. Todd is still involved with Ch. 8 as producer and host of Time Out for Sportstalk, a live biweekly call-in program which just observed its eight-year anniversary in January 2002. He also freelances at NECN as a sports production assistant and has been a hockey public address announcer at Merrimack College and
UMass-Boston.
Todd is a lifelong Massachusetts resident who grew up an avid Red Sox, Patriots, and Celtics fan. While a student at Clark University he also wrote and spent two years as sports editor for The Scarlet, the school newspaper.
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Ben Oshlag began covering Tufts sports in 1998 as a writer for The
Tufts Daily. As an undergraduate, he covered the basketball, track,
football, and women's soccer teams, among other things. He served as a
Sports Editor for three semesters before moving on to become
Editor-in-Chief his senior year. He received the Tim Horgan Award in
2001, but says the highlight of his career as a Jumbo was watching the
women's soccer team play in the 2000 National Championship game.
A current computer science graduate student, Ben is still involved with
the Daily, having just re-designed the paper's website, TuftsDaily.com.
He has just recently begun his JumboCast career, making brief
appearances at halftime during basketball season before calling
baseball games last spring.
Ben was born and raised in Memphis, TN, but now permanently resides in
Somerville. Growing up without a hometown team, his allegiances are
scattered, although he is fairly certain that the Grizzlies will win a
championship before the Red Sox.
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Publicity Director Vivek Ramgopal is no stranger to Tufts sports,
having been involved with them in various
capacities before graduating in 2000. He served
as a sports columnist, editor and staff writer
during his four-year tenure at The Tufts Daily.
Vivek was recognized for his writing skills by
receiving the 1999 Tim Horgan Award, given to the
university's outstanding sportswriter.
Vivek moved onto broadcasting as an occasional
color commentator for basketball broadcasts on
WMFO and as the Ahmad Rashad sideline reporter
for TUTV.
A native New Yorker, Vivek can be found
frequently at Fenway countering those "Yankees
suck" chants or at the Sports Depot cheering on
his Jets during football season.
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Brad Feldman is familiar to local soccer fans as both a television sideline reporter and radio play-by-play man for the New England Revolution, as well as a filling-in on TV play-by-play for the Boston Breakers. He also has done freelance stints as a sports anchor and reporter for WLNE in Providence and AT&T 3. Previously, he was a sports anchor/reporter at Regional News
Network in New York state and KTEN-TV in Denison, Texas.
Born in New Hampshire, raised in Boston and Belmont, Brad is a dyed-in-the-wool Boston sports fan, and as a hardcore gym rat has been sneaking into Cousens Gym since age 12. He wants all to know that he is a good luck charm to local teams (whether he roots for them or not) in the cities in which he lives, having brought championships to New York, Dallas and New Jersey in recent years. For that reason, in particular, he is pleased to be back home. (Ed. note: Wow. I guess he really is a good luck charm.)