Pam Oliver

The First thing I can say about her is that she is my all time favorite. She represents Title IX to the fullest.(Just learned about this in my sports management class thank you Dr. Bernstein) Not only is she a woman, but she is an African American female making her way in a competitive job. From what i know she was born Pamela Donielle Oliver, being that her father was a soldier in the U.S. Army, Oliver and her family moved several times during her childhood, living in Texas, Michigan, Washington, California and Florida. Instead of watching children's shows, Oliver preferred watching sports. Unlike myself Pam excelled in various sports which gave her a wider knowledge for the job that she would soon become apart of. Starting out she worked at various news stations before coming to ESPN sports in 1995. I just want to give a big kudos to her and i hope to one day meet her in the near future.

How my dream originated

Well where did this dream come from one might ask? Well it's kinda funny to me. I didn't want to be a sports broadcaster from birth, this was something that came later to me in my young life. When I was younger my mother worked in a nursing home,i saw her wear her white uniform and to me I thought she was an actual doctor from a big hospital. I should of known otherwise seeing that we lived in a small one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. Thinking my mom was a doctor I wanted to be one too, I wanted to be a surgeon in the emergency room. When i came to my senses around twelve years of age I realized that cutting people open and seeing large amounts of blood was not for me. And so I decided I needed to keep searching for that reason as to why god put me on this Earth. Around this time I had moved from Brooklyn to the slower paced town of Colonial Heights, Virginia. It was weird for me here i had little friends, and I was going through my awkward stages. I had nobody to really talk to, so during these times i kept to myself I was my own best friend. It was not until the eighth grade when I started to make friends and discover who I really was this was the beginning. So during the years that I kept to myself I thought that i had figured out why I had been put here. I felt that i was supposed to be an actress, I knew that this was what i had been put here for. I loved Katie Holmes, and i knew practically everything about Drew Barrymore. I was apart of the drama club in high school, but when i was giving little to no parts in the plays I kinda gave up on the dream. What smashed the dream for me big time was when my mom and aunt said that i was just copying my older cousin, and that acting really wasn't what I wanted to do. This pissed me off, but eventually i decided to move on to the next thing. So has an epiphany at one point or another in there life, mine came to me when i went to my first high school football game. It was not exactly and NFL game, but it was close enough to me. The sounds, the smells, the actual fact that my mom had finally let me out of the house. Watching my first live football game made me discovered my love for football. I watched it all the time, I watched all the many ESPN channels. The NFL network took place of my beloved nickelodeon, I wanted to be apart of this male driven society, but i did not know where I would fit in at. Until one day that epiphany i was talking about earlier kicked in. I was watching a football...the exact teams that were actually playing is a blur to me now, but i do remember the broadcaster who interviewed the players during halftime. It was Pam Oliver an American sportscaster known for her work on the sidelines for various NBA and NFL games. This was my new beginning I finally knew where I belonged.

My First Blog

I am new to blogging...but so I far I like it. Sports have always been intriguing to me even though I never really participated in any growing up. I liked the competitive aspect and just from watching sports I have developed a strong drive to achieve most anything in life. As of right now I am a student at Old Dominion University majoring in mass communications with a minor in public education with a concentration of sports management. That was just the long way of saying I am putting in work to become a future sports broadcaster. To get through college I am currently serving in the Virginia National Guard, and all i can say about that is that it has not been as easy task for me...but i am going to finish what I have started. I have a slight idea of how i am going to achieve my goals of becoming a sports broadcaster, but I love help and advice. I would like to thank my friend Malik Smith of Hampton University for telling me to start this blog. He too is also an aspiring sports broadcaster and I would like to wish him the best of luck towards his goals. To put an end to my first blog i once read that "dreams are like rainbows. Only idiots chase them." Well I'm one of the biggest idiots there is.