Dave Lamont
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Dave Lamont is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 sports commentator
Sports commentator
In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...

. He formerly hosted South Florida's First News weekday mornings from 5 to 9 on WIOD
WIOD
WIOD is a news/talk formatted radio station in Miami, Florida. For over 80 years, it has been a major information station in South Florida...

 (610 AM). He was the ringleader of SFFN and does everything from reporting to getting interactive with listeners. Lamont currently calls college football for ESPN
ESPN College Football
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 and ABC
College Football on ABC
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.

Lamont also makes appearances in regular intervals on the Paul and Young Ron Show
Paul and Young Ron Show
The Paul & Young Ron Show is a morning radio program starring Paul Castronovo and "Young" Ron Brewer, broadcast on WBGG-FM in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale radio market, WZZR-FM in the West Palm Beach radio market, and Sun 103.1 in Key Largo and Sun 99.5 in Key West.The program is broadcast live from...

. He typically joins them full time after 9:00 AM. Lamont is a veteran sports broadcaster and has worked in both television and radio for many years, both locally and nationally.


"I want our audience to be informed, but beyond that I want them to be happy, be sad, and be angry too, just not at the same time. I will guarantee at times our listeners will be right by my side and other times they will be mad at me. I wouldn't have it any other way."

Accomplishments

  • Lamont has been in broadcasting since he was a teenager.
  • He is a graduate of the University of Miami
    University of Miami
    The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...

    .
  • ABC/ESPN
    ESPN
    Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

     college football play-by-play announcer and sideline reporter.
  • Voice of Florida Atlantic University
    Florida Atlantic University
    Florida Atlantic University, also referred to as FAU or Florida Atlantic, is a public, coeducational, research university located in , United States. The university has six satellite campuses located in the Florida cities of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Port St. Lucie, and in Fort...

     Owls football.
  • Winner of an AIR Award for best play-by-play
  • Winner of an Associated Press
    Associated Press
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    Award for best daily sport
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