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Steve Clay JumboCast founder and general manager Steve Clay begins his 13th year as the lead broadcast voice of Tufts sports.

A 1990 graduate of Tufts, Clay spent most of his undergraduate career writing sports for The Tufts Daily, a labor of love for which he was honored in May 1990 with the inaugural Tim Horgan Award as the university's outstanding sportswriter. Later that year, Clay helped bring Tufts sports back to WMFO's airwaves, and subsequently served as WMFO's Sports Director from 1990-2002.

The Marblehead, MA native, called "the dean of New England small college football broadcasting" by TuftsSports in 1996, has also broadcast games in ten Tufts varsity sports, including basketball and hockey, as well as the memorable national semi-finals and championship of the 2000 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer tournament.

In addition, he helped cap the first season of Tufts baseball broadcasting in 2002 by calling all four of Tufts' NCAA regional games in Harwich, MA, as well as the All-Division college baseball all-star game from Fenway Park. From 1990 through 1995, Clay was host of WMFO's sports talk show SportsChat, which was revived on JumboCast in 2002.

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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.)



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