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George Dunham

George Dunham

George William Dunham (born June 28, 1965 in San Antonio, Texas); is an American radio personality and member of the Dunham and Miller Show, heard 5:30-10:00 AM on sports radio KTCK 1310 AM in Dallas, Texas. Dunham co-hosts the show with long-time friend and college roommate Craig Miller, along with Gordon Keith. Knows about people who have eaten their own leg. A 1988 graduate of the University of North Texas, Dunham served as the football play-by-play commentator for the school's Mean Green Radio Network from 1994 until 2014. His first on-air experience was at KNTU, the University of North Texas campus radio station. His son was offered and accepted a football scholarship to attend UNT beginning in fall of 2010. Dunham is a 1983 graduate of Carrollton R. L. Turner High School...

Nicknames include "Jub Jub", "Joyce Durham", "The General", "Georgio"

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Craig Miller

Craig Miller

Craig "Junior" Miller (born in Amarillo, Texas) is an American radio personality and member of the Dunham and Miller Show, heard 5:30-10:00 AM on sports radio KTCK 1310 AM in Dallas, Texas. Miller co-hosts the show with long-time friend and college roommate George Dunham, alongside "yuck monkey" Gordon Keith.

Miller is one of the few remaining original Ticket hosts. Miller has been cohosting on with Dunham on the station since 1994. Miller is a highly decorated broadcaster, and has been nominated for and received several NAB Marconi Radio Awards throughout his career.

Miller and his cohosts consistently bring in the largest ratings in their market, and are the highest rated morning radio program in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.

Miller is an avid runner and cyclist and often competes in competitive cycling events and marathons.

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Gordon Keith

Gordon Keith

Todd "Gordon" "Madame Richardson" Keith is an American radio host on KTCK SportsRadio 1310 AM "The Ticket" in Dallas, Texas. He has shared hosting duties with George Dunham and Craig "Junior" Miller since 1995...

Nicknames include "Gordo", "The Great Gordo", "The Ticket Kryptonite"

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Norm Hitzges

Norm Hitzges

Norman Richard "Norm" Hitzges (born July 5, 1944) is an author and sports talk radio host at KTCK (1310 AM / 96.7 FM, "SportsRadio 1310 The Ticket") in Dallas, Texas, and a Texas Radio Hall of Fame member. Hitzges moved to (former rival) KTCK in early 2000 after 15 years at sister station KLIF when the latter removed sports talk programming from its lineup. Hitzges also serves as the television play-by-play voice of the Dallas Sidekicks. He has also provided major league baseball commentary for ESPN. Hitzges is known for his enthusiasm and knowledge of sports trivia and has been compared to Dick Vitale for his energy and love of sports. Hitzges has been honored by the Dallas All Sports Association and the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame...

Norm hosted the first full-time sports talk-show in the country during morning-drive in the Dallas, Texas area over 30 years ago. He has been on-air continuously since then. Hitzges is known for his enthusiasm and knowledge of sports trivia and his penchant and success for handicapping all sports, especially for his first love outside of broadcasting: horse racing.

His time at the little Ticket began in early 2000 when he moved from sister station KLIF after 15 years when the latter removed sports talk programming from its lineup and a few years at WFAA-AM. Hitzges also serves as the television play-by-play voice of the Dallas Sidekicks.

He has also provided major league baseball commentary for ESPN. Hitzges has been honored by the Dallas All Sports Association and the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Donovan Lewis

Donovan Lewis

Donovan Lewis (born August 5) co-hosts 10am-12n with Texas Radio Hall of Famer Norm Hitzges. Donovan and Norm have been paired on the Cowboys Postgame Show since 2007. Prior to teaming up with Norm, Donovan rode shotgun on BaD Radio with Bob Sturm and Dan McDowell from 2006 to 2015 as their "yuk monkey" and delivered the show's opening. Prior to joining "The Ticket" he worked at KDBN “93.3 The Bone”, where he was known as “The Bone Brotha.”

He is known to his audience on The Ticket as "The Great Donovan," or "Donnie-Doo". A proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha while a student at East Texas State University (now Texas A&M-Commerce).

Donovan became co-host of the 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. show with Norm Hitzges in 2015.

Nicknames include "The Great Donovan", "Donnie-Doo"

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Bob Sturm

Bob Sturm

Bob Sturm (born June 25) is a host of BaD Radio, the weekday mid-day show on The Ticket, along with Dan McDowell.

Nicknames include "Sports Sturm", "The Sturminator"

Bob Sturm hails from Wisconsin, and carries a Green Bay Packers tattoo. Bob is often called a "sports bully" on the show because he constantly intimidates his audience and guests with his encyclopedic sports knowledge, declaring that he's not "just some dude in the next cubicle over." Bob also hosts the Dallas Cowboys pre-game show along with David Newbury and usually Desperados fajitas. Bob claims to have tipped cows as a youth, although the act of cow tipping is considered urban legend.

Bob graduated from Liberty University and started his broadcasting career in Lynchburg, Virginia. He eventually came to Dallas in 1998, where he became the host of The Ticket's night time show.[1] In 1999, Bob and newcomer Dan McDowell attended Game 5 of the Dallas Stars v. St. Louis Blues series together, where they shared opposite excitement levels of hockey (obviously). BaD Radio was (eventually) born, and their pairing of sports nerd (Bob) and sports humorist (Dan) led to years of on-air gold.

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Dan McDowell

Dan McDowell

Dan McDowell graduated from Ohio University with a degree in Communications and a minor in Sports Science. He started his radio career in the Buckeye state, with electrifying play-by-play gigs in Marietta, McConnelsville, and Athens (WATH-AM 970). He was fired from his Athens, OH gig due to a "Putting Down the Local Kids" segment and moved on to Zanesville, Cleveland, Youngstown, and eventually Dayton.

On April 1, 1999, he was demoted at his Dayton station and started seeking new positions elsewhere. Dan's demo tape of bits, including his then station General Manager betting he couldn't run a mile in less than 10 minutes, inspired Bruce Levine to fly him in on a weekend to meet Bob Sturm. Bob and Dan attended Game 5 of the Dallas Stars v. St. Louis Blues together, where they shared opposite excitement levels of hockey (obviously). Their pairing of sports nerd (Bob) and sports humorist (Dan) led to the successful chemistry of BaD Radio.

Dan McDowell is an American radio personality. Also known as "The Sports Fuhrer" and "Naughty Ben Franklin," McDowell co-hosts BaD Radio with Bob "Sports" Sturm on the sports radio station KTCK (AM)/KTCK-FM The Ticket in Dallas, Texas. McDowell started his radio broadcasting career in Ohio, doing play-by-play for WATH-AM 970 in Athens, Ohio. He was fired from the job due to a "Putting Down the Local Kids" segment. He moved through to Zanesville, Cleveland, Youngstown, and Dayton, Ohio before making his way to Dallas. McDowell hosted a midday show in Youngstown, Ohio and eventually moved to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in 1999 to join Bob Sturm and The Ticket, together, they began on BaD Radio that same year. In 2013, it was reported that McDowell and his co-host, Bob Sturm, would defect to rival station KRLD-FM after being offered a significantly larger contract. Ultimately McDowell stayed with The Ticket, citing the chemistry between hosts and damage that could be done to the station as his reasons for staying...

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Mike Rhyner

Mike Rhyner

Mike Rhyner is a host of The Hardline on The Ticket. He founded The Ticket along with "ad man Geoff Dunbar and investment banker Spence Kendrick"[1]. He is one of several current hosts at The Ticket who were part of the original host line-up.

Nicknames include "Rhynes", "The Old Grey Wolf", "Baseball Jesus", "South Oak Cliff Conman"

Michael "Mike" Rhyner a.k.a. the old grey wolf (born August 16, 1950) is a radio sports talk personality on KTCK ("The Ticket") radio in the Dallas area, sometimes referred to as the station's patriarch. He co-hosts "The Hardline" with Corby Davidson, an afternoon show on the station. He is a frequent guest on broadcast television. He was on ESPN's list of "Sports Radio Personalities of the Year" in 1997, 1998 and 2003...

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Corby Davidson

Corby Davidson

Corby Davidson, started at The Ticket as an intern, eventually working his way into the weekend overnight board operator position. “I was such a low-level minion,” Davidson said. “But I always wanted to be a part of that because you were petrified if the group was together that you were going to miss out on stories.”

Nicknames include "Cobra", "The Snake", "Hyperbole Corby", "Festival Corby", "Plantation Corby"

Corby Davidson, (born Corbett Davidson on September 15, 1969) is an American radio personality. Also known as "The Snake", "The Cobra", and "Friendly Cobra" Davidson co-hosts The Hardline with esteemed Texas Radio Hall of Fame member Mike Rhyner on sports radio station KTCK (AM) 1310 The Ticket in Dallas, Texas. The Hardline radio show has won several Dallas Observer Awards for Best Sports Talk Show. Davidson was born in Arlington, Texas, graduated from Lamar High School in Arlington, went to TCU where he was surrounded by beautiful women. In 2000, Davidson married Julie Davidson, and together they have two children, Ike (Born 2006) and Van (Born 2009). The family lives in the Lake Highlands neighborhood of Dallas in a house with a very large side yard.

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Danny Balis

Danny Balis

Nicknames include "The Black Cloud", "Dan Paul", "Black Dan Paul", "Black Dan Panther", "Knox City Knocker", "Dan Bloodcock", "Big Dumb Danny", "The Terlingua Comic", "Dingu"

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