Middle Tennessee State University Athletics
Staff Directory
Dick Palmer
- Title:
- Play-by-Play (Women's Basketball, Baseball, and Football-Postgame)
Dick Palmer is in his 37th season of calling the play-by-play action of Middle Tennessee basketball. Palmer, a 1960 graduate of Middle Tennessee, has been broadcasting sporting events for the past 52 years and ended a 25-year run in 2005 of calling Blue Raider football.
From 1971 until his return to Murfreesboro, Palmer was the voice of the Memphis Blues Class AA baseball team, the Memphis Pros (later the Tams) in the American Basketball Association, and the Memphis Grizzlies in the World Football League.
Earlier, he worked in Jackson, TN, for nine years, broadcasting a wide range of high school sports, as well as Union University's basketball games.
Palmer, who co-hosted the first sports call-in show in Nashville during the mid-70s, was the studio host for Vol Network Football Broadcasts for five years and has called the TSSAA Basketball State Tournament on the Tennessee Sports Radio Network every year since 1982. Currently, he has broadcasted MT women’s basketball since the 2006-07 season.
A little league baseball coach for over 40 years, Palmer enjoyed a long career with Palmer Wholesale. Palmer and his wife DeLois have three sons, Richard, Mike, and Jon, and two granddaughters, Kaitlyn and Abby.
From 1971 until his return to Murfreesboro, Palmer was the voice of the Memphis Blues Class AA baseball team, the Memphis Pros (later the Tams) in the American Basketball Association, and the Memphis Grizzlies in the World Football League.
Earlier, he worked in Jackson, TN, for nine years, broadcasting a wide range of high school sports, as well as Union University's basketball games.
Palmer, who co-hosted the first sports call-in show in Nashville during the mid-70s, was the studio host for Vol Network Football Broadcasts for five years and has called the TSSAA Basketball State Tournament on the Tennessee Sports Radio Network every year since 1982. Currently, he has broadcasted MT women’s basketball since the 2006-07 season.
A little league baseball coach for over 40 years, Palmer enjoyed a long career with Palmer Wholesale. Palmer and his wife DeLois have three sons, Richard, Mike, and Jon, and two granddaughters, Kaitlyn and Abby.
Rick Insell LIVE: Presented by The Boulevard Bar & Grille (Video) - 2.2.26
Monday, February 02
Blue Raider Notebook Presented by TOA - February 2nd
Monday, February 02
MTSU Baseball 53rd Annual Ground Hog Day Lunch 2/2/26
Monday, February 02
WTEN: Middle Tennessee vs Lipscomb
Sunday, February 01
