Dick Palmer - Play-by-Play (Women's Basketball, Baseball, and Football-Postgame) - Staff Directory - Middle Tennessee State University Athletics

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Dick Palmer

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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.