David Sims (born February 14, 1953) is an American sportscaster. He is currently the television commentator for the Seattle Mariners. Sims was the 2018, 2019 and 2020 Sportswriter of the Year for the Washington State National Sports Media Association. This is his 16th season as co-host (with Mike Krzyzewski) of basketball and other shows with Coach K on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. In 2009, Sims was also the UFL live TV presenter on Versus.
Raised in Philadelphia, Sims attended Bethany College in West Virginia, where he played college football for a year, finished third in kickoff returns at the Presidents Athletic Conference, and played for the Bison baseball team. (Third Level) and Mass Communication Research Catcher. He began his career as a sports reporter for the New York Daily News. In the early ’80s he was a sports reporter for a short-lived satellite news channel. After turning to broadcasting, Sims became the host of WNBC’s SportsNight (1986-1988) (replacing Jack Spector), a five-hour nightly sports phone show that pioneered WFAN’s all-sports talk format. He was hired by Michael Weisman as a course reporter for the NBC Sports 1988 Olympics Summer television program. From September to February 1989 he co-hosted the lunchtime show of the New York sports network 66 WFAN with Ed Coleman. 1993. He then became a weekend sports reporter for WCBS-TV in New York (1995–1998) and a radio host for the New York Knicks (1986–1993). Radio face for the Temple Owls football team in the Big East. On television, Sims was the face of weekly football games in the Big East Conference (1993-1994) and thereafter (1998-2007). Sims joined ESPN as a live college basketball broadcaster in 1991 and college football in 1998. It primarily broadcasts Big East games on the regional ESPN Plus network. As of 2016, he continued to cover college basketball for FOX and FS1. Sims was the NFL sec…
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