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John Rooke is an award-winning broadcaster, and an inductee into the Rhode Island Radio and Television Hall of Fame and Rhode Island's Words Unlimited Hall of Fame. He currently serves in several broadcast capacities, including 30 years as the play-by-play voice for Providence Friars men's basketball; Big East Conference football and basketball play-by-play for ESPNU, ESPN Regional Television, and the IMG College Network; ACC football for IMG; stadium voice for the New England Patriots and New England Revolution; former host for Inside the Big East and "Golfing The World" on ESPNU, Fox Sports Net and several regional sports networks and local TV stations; and talk host for WOR 710 in New York and WEEI-FM sports radio in Boston & Providence. He has also hosted shows for the NBC Sports Radio Network and ESPN Radio, plus currently hosts This Week in the Big East for Westwood One.