Columnists
Lee Leonard Sports Director		Lee Leonard is a 20 year Bay-Area broadcasting veteran. Leonard began his career as a radio correspondent in 1983 working for KYUU, K101, and KNEW. He has worked along side noted broadcasters Ken Gimblin, Bruce MacGowan and the late Sam Skinner. Lee Leonard created Sports Radio Service in 1985 and he is the host and executive producer of SportsTalk, a production of Sports Radio Service. He resides in San Francisco and has a 17 year old daughter, Dianah.
Gary Araki		The very talented Gary Araki was a do it yourself handyman around the computer, he helped webmaster Shawn McCullough with updating the site and installing audio. Gary was best remembered for helping the San Jose Sharks install their wireless system in the broadcast room at H.P.Pavillion. Gary helped with production and editing for the website and radio shows on radio stations, KLIB 1110 Sacramento, KEST 1450 San Francisco, KSJX 1500 San Jose, and KVVN 1430 San Jose. Gary also covered Sharks hockey and the former NLL Lacrosse team San Jose Stealth. Sports Radio Service sadly lost Gary on February 27th 2008 at the age of 50 as he passed in his sleep.
Stefani Rebekah Black		Stefani Rebekah Black started out with raiderfanradio.com in 2002 and is currently broadcasting for the website each week for each and every Raiders home and away game each season. Stefani was not a cast member until June of 2002 of the show. Through the years with raiderfanradio.com Stefani has been able to cover and talk about Raiders football and talk with the Raider fans about the team. In 2005 Stefani joined Sportstalk radio and sportsradioservice.com and became a talk show host and was heard on such stations at the time 1430 KVVN San Jose, KSJX 1500 San Jose and 1450 KEST San Francisco. Stefani said that the talk radio is a format that is dying in most major markets and feels that this is a format that must keep going because it's such a great source of information for fans and other journalists who want to find out how people are really feeling. Stefani covers the San Francisco Giants during the regular season and has covered the Giants since 2006.
Joe Cronin		Joe Cronin passed away on Monday June 13th 2011, after a long bout with cancer. Joe was honored with a memorial that consisted of family members, co-workers from the Sacramento Airport Weather Bureau, representatives from the San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders, St.Louis Rams, and Sacramento Kings.
George Devine, Sr.		George Devine, Sr., has covered Bay Area sports for over a generation, in print and electronic media. Recently he has been a local correspondent for Fox Sports Radio and Sporting News Radio.
Michael Duca		Michael Duca has been involved professionally with Baseball for over 20 years, through Project Scoresheet, Total Sports/TotalBaseball.com, and MLB.com. He was a regular contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle's Giants Today page and was a site editor for DustyBaker.com, He covers about 100 A's and Giants' games each year for MLB.COM, doing pitch-by-pitch input for that web site. He is currently working on two baseball-related book projects. He is married, with a 21-year old son, 20-year old triplet sons, and a 16-year old daughter. Mr. Duca resides with his family in Alameda.
Daniel Dullum		Daniel Dullum has over three decades of sports reporting experience, including a combined 20 state and national awards for newspaper reporting since 1997. A former disc jockey and sportscaster in the Midwest, primarily in the Fargo, ND-Moorhead, MN market, Dullum served from 1983 to 1996 as the cable TV play-by-play voice for North Dakota State University sports, including football, basketball, volleyball, baseball and hockey. His over 1,400 games of play-by-play have included various national and state high school tournaments – and professional boxing. Dullum is presently working on his first book of major league baseball history, “Off The Beaten Base Path,” and hosts “Rock and Roll 101” on KQCK Radio in Queen Creek, AZ. He covers MLB, the NHL, and University of California basketball for Sports Radio Service.com.
Jerry Feitelberg		Jerry worked on the medical staff of the Oakland A’s as the team pharmacist for 6 seasons and in 2005, began to write, produce and host a program Called “Talkin’ Baseball” for Alameda TV channel 31. Jerry also wrote many articles on baseball for “Love of the Game.Com” productions and later joined SportsradioService.com as a feature writer covering the Oakland A’s home games in 2010.
Dave Fowkes		Dave has been in broadcast media since the early 1990s. As a sports journalist, he has covered all the Bay Area teams. His current focus is the San Jose Sharks and he can be heard on Bay Area radio stations doing sports, traffic and news (although often under different names). Mr. Fowkes was born and raised in the Bay Area with a degree from UC Santa Cruz.
Ken Gimblin		A Sacramento native, Ken first started covering the San Francisco Giants in 1964. A longtime radio and television reporter, Ken's most memorable moments: The Oakland Raiders Super Bowl XV victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. Roger Craig's 1987 National League West Division Champion San Francisco Giants. And Ken was there to witness "the catch". Joe Montana's last second pass to Dwight Clark as the 49ers defeated the Dallas Cowboys in the 1981 NFC Championship game eventually giving San Francisco their first Super Bowl victory.
Jeremy Harness		A recent graduate of San Francisco State University, Jeremy Harness is a regular contributor to SportsRadioService.com, covering Cal sports as well as the San Francisco Giants, Oakland A's, San Francisco 49ers and the Golden State Warriors as well as writing columns on numerous issues in the world of sports. Jeremy is also a talk-show host and a reporter for El Reportero in San Francisco. He currently resides in Concord, Calif.
Tony Hayes		Tony "the Tiger" Hayes once struck out former big leaguer Harvey Pulliam in a high school game. Now, he writes feature stories about the San Francisco Giants in Giants Today, a section of the San Francisco Chronicle. He's also written for BAM magazine, Asian Week, and the East Bay Express.
Jeremy Kahn		Jeremy Kahn is a native of the Los Angeles suburb of West Hills. A frequent guest on Sportstalk since January 2003, Kahn joined sportsradioservice.com in May 2003 and is currently covering the Oakland A's and Stanford Athletics. Kahn attended Cal State Northridge where he worked in the Sports Information Office for two years and was the Sports Editor of the Summer Sundial school newspaper during the Summer of 1998. Kahn was also the Administrative Assistant for the Women's Basketball team for three years, a team that made their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in his first year on the staff. Kahn relocated to the Bay Area in June 2001 and is a freelance Production Assistant for the NFL on CBS and FOX. In his spare time, Kahn trains in Effective Self Defense and is a multi-time finisher of the Los Angeles Marathon.
Greg Lee		Greg has been writing for Sports Radio Service since 2003. Specializing in the sports no one else watches, Greg has covered the San Jose Sabercats, San Jose Earthquakes and Sacramento Monarchs. He also spent some time on the 49ers and Kings beat. Most recently, Greg covered the inaugural season of the California Redwoods. Greg has also worked professionally for SportsTicker and is a contributor to a Fantasy Football Information service.
Pearl Allison Lo		Pearl graduated as a Communications major from Santa Clara University in 2006 and got involved with sportsradioservice.com through Ralph Gora and her passion for sports. She first wrote about the Sabercats, then gradually grew to cover more sports, which include the Stealth, A's, 49ers, Earthquakes and the Sharks. She has also participated in radio broadcasts and done voice-over commercials for Sports Radio. Additional sports-related experience includes sideline reporting two high school football games, one featuring her alma mater, St. Francis in Mountain View, for Mountain View Community Television Station, taking stats for intramural basketball games, and working in the Athletics department for SCU.
Charlie Mallonee		Charlie O Mallonee comes from good radio stock hosting his own talk show in Sacramento on KSAC 1240 and also managing San Jose radio station KSJX 1500. Charlie is now covering Oakland A's baseball and Sacramento Mountain Lions football for Sportstalk Radio and brings a long tenure of experience with him from covering previous teams such as the San Jose Sharks, San Jose Sabercats, San Jose Giants, Sacramento River Cats and Sacramento Kings with him to the broadcast booth.
Shawn McCullough		Shawn has been the webmaster and a writer for SportsRadioService.com since 2001. He is the President of ShawMac Consulting, Inc. and covered all of the Bay Area teams for eight years, including acting as an off-ice official for the NHL at San Jose Sharks games. Now, he is currently living in Pittsburgh, PA covering all of the Pittsburgh sports teams (Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, Pitt football, Pitt basketball) and has covered the Super Bowl since 2002.
Morris Phillips		Morris Phillips has attended big sporting events in the Bay Area since his father, Morris Jr., first brought him along at age 6 in 1970. With those experiences as his backdrop, Morris gravitated to sports journalism as a collegian at Northwestern and USF. Then in 1996-97, Morris was the post-game reporter on “Sports Fans Rap,” a weekly sports highlights show on KMTP, Channel 32 in San Francisco. Now, on the tail end of a 12-year career as a San Francisco bike messenger, Morris has returned to sports journalism as a game-day reporter for Sports Radio Service.
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez		Amaury Pi-Gonzalez, an on-air broadcaster in the Bay Area for three decades has been the Spanish radio play-by-play announcer of the San Francisco Giants since 1995. In addition to his Giants duties, Amaury was hired as the Spanish radio voice of the Seattle Mariners in 2003. He serves on the board of directors as vice-president of the Hispanic Heritage Museum in San Francisco. With an extensive resume, he called 17 seasons for the Oakland Athletics in Spanish and seven years for the Golden State Warriors. Pi-Gonzalez broadcast the 2002 World Series for the ESPN/Cadena Latino Radio Network which was carried on over 300 stations in the United States and Latin America. Amaury and his wife Gail reside in Fremont with their two sons, Jonathan and Geoffrey.
Tony Renteria		Tony Renteria came to SRS back in 2007 while covering the Sacramento Kings and Monarchs. Tony history of news coverage started for him as far back as the fourth grade when he wrote, edited and published his elementary school newspaper. Tony enjoys covering all levels of sports from high school to the professional level. Tony strongest asset is that he is still a fan at heart. He currently lives in Sacramento with his son Alex and his cat Max.
Scary Barry Rodriguez		Scary Barry Rodriguez started with Sports Radio Service in 2001 getting his first assignment doing exclusive commentary and his "Fans Eye View" commentary on radio. Scary had the popular editorial heard after all Sports Talk broadcasts which was heard on KEST 1450 San Francisco and KSJX 1550 San Jose. Scary later found himself immersed in NFL coverage with the 49ers and Raiders. Scary also covered the Pro Bowl on a yearly basis and in the 2010 Pro Bowl covered the first Pro Bowl outside of Honolulu since 1980 in Miami as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is now rotating the Pro Bowl with the Super Bowl. In 2002 Scary covered the Giants, playoffs and World Series and Oakland A's 2002 playoff games. Scary did commentary during that season and it was his first year covering Major League Baseball as a columnist. Currently Scary, when doing the Pro Bowls, works radio and TV with Honolulu talk show host Super Bowl Wayne which is heard and seen throughout the greater Hawaiian Islands. During the regular season Scary covers the 49ers.
Ben Schneider		A native of Portland Oregon, Ben Schneider is in his first year with Sports Radio Service. Ben is a graduate of Sacramento State University where as a student he was the sports director for the campus radio station KSSU 1580 AM. As sports director Ben was a play-by-play broadcaster for the Hornets Football, Men’s/Women’s Basketball, Baseball and Softball and hosted a weekly sports talk show, Off the Schneid for four years. Ben currently works for NewsTalk 1530 KFBK in Sacramento as a traffic and news producer and as a sports reporter covering the Kings, 49ers, Warriors, Sharks, A’s, Giants, Cal, Stanford and Sacramento State. Ben also currently works as a sports play-by-play broadcaster for Northern California High School Football, Basketball and Baseball. Ben’s grandfather, Edwin Forrest, played for the first San Francisco 49ers team in 1946.
John Shrader		John Shrader has been contributing to Sports Radio Service since the summer of 2002, writing a monthly column at sportsradioservice.com on a variety of subjects related to Bay Area sports.John has been a broadcast journalist in the Bay Area for more than 20 years, the last 12 at KNBR 680, where his duties are varied, including afternoon sports updates and covering the San Francisco 49ers. A former voice of the San Jose State Spartans, John has called San Jose Earthquakes games, on both TV and radio, since the inception of Major League Soccer in 1996. In 2002, Shrader founded SoccerRadioUS, a company dedicated to broadcasting soccer in the U.S. He announced the Pepsi MLS All-Star Game and MLS Cup 2002 to a nationwide audience, a first for American soccer. John is a Neligh, Nebraska native, who studied Journalism at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. He worked at TV stations in Kearney and Hastings before coming to the Bay Area in 1980. A short stint at KNTV, Channel 11 was followed by a nine-year run at KICU, Channel 36.
Michelle Touson		Michelle Touson is a native of Fort Worth, Texas and a doctoral candidate at the University of New Mexico majoring in sport administration. She has worked in collegiate and professional sports in various capacities; and hosted a sports talk show called "Out of Bounds" at City College of San Francisco with Jeremy Kahn. Michelle is also a graduate of City College of San Francisco, Florida State University and Howard University.
David Zizmor		A San Jose native, David Zizmor has worked in radio since the age of 16. From 1995-1997, David was the play-by-play voice for the Cornell University Men's Basketball team and the host of Sports Roundup on WVBR in Ithaca, NY. Since 1998 he has covered the A's, Giants, 49ers, Raiders, Sharks, Warriors and Stanford Athletics for KCBS 740 AM in San Francisco. David Zizmor has been a regular on SportsTalk since 1999.
Tom Zulewski		Tom has been in the sports media for more than six seasons, writing for the Harford Sentinel, Vallejo Times-Herald, and the San Jose Mercury News. Hockey drives his fan engine more than any other sport. He counts covering the San Jose Sharks' 2002 playoff run coverage as his favorite memories.

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