BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b7b97f792a1195d11dcf1b50cd64d85012 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:BBA Breakfast: Featuring Bob Rathbun, Play-By-Play, Atlanta Hawks and FOX Sports Southeast LOCATION:Maggiano's Buckhead\, 3368 Peachtree Rd\, Atlanta, GA 30326\, United States DESCRIPTION:
BBA Breakfast
The BBA breakfast meetin gs take place on Thursday mornings from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. at Maggiano' s Buckhead, and feature a well known speaker from the community. Past spea kers have included business and civic leaders, authors, entertainers and re presentatives from some of the City’s finest cultural establishments. Networking takes place beginning at 7:30 a.m. with a call to order prompt ly at 7:55 a.m.
Join us for our breakfast on Thursday, Septmeber 6, featuring Bob Rathbun,
Play-By-Play, FOX Sports Southeast at Maggiano's Buckhead - Centioli Burgoni Ro
om
Members: $20 Pre-Registration, $25 at the Door
No n-Members: $25
Pre-Registration is required to guarantee
a seat
About the Speak
er:
One of the NBA's mo
st recognizable and decorated play-by-play announcers, Bob Rathbun enters h
is 22md season as the television play-by-play voice for the Hawks. Rathbun
will call all of the games on the Hawks' FOX Sports Southeast package. He i
s the longest tenured TV play-by-play man in the franchise’s history.
Rathbun has earned a variety of significant broadcasting awards
during his career. Rathbun has won 10 Southeast Regional Emmy Awards, incl
uding one in 2015 for the Hawks vs. Los Angeles Clippers broadcast on Decem
ber 23, 2014. In 2012, he earned Georgia Sportscaster of the Year honors fr
om the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA). Most re
cently, Rathbun received the Positivity in Broadcasting Award in June 2017,
from Positive Athlete Georgia.
Rathbun's basketball work has touched nearly all
of the major broadcast outlets. His NBA work has earned him opportunities t
o call games for TNT and NBA TV, after a collegiate resume that includes st
ints with CBS (NCAA basketball tournament), ABC, and ESPN (college basketba
ll plus college football and the College World Series).
Rathbun
has served as the college basketball play-by-play announcer for the ACC Tel
evision Network through Raycom Sports since 1988, and he has called games f
or both the ACC and the SEC on Fox Sports South since he arrived in Atlanta
in 1996. He is also the network’s play-by-play voice for the WNBA&rs
quo;s Atlanta Dream.
With
an extensive sports background, Rathbun's broadcasting career has earned hi
m eight Sportscaster of the Year honors (Virginia: 1980-82, 1985, 1988-89;
Georgia 1998, 2012), a Distinguished Service Award from the ACC (1994), and
a Distinguished Alumni Award from Catawba College (1988). He was inducted
into his alma mater's Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
His baseball resume includes 10 years as Fox Sport
s South’s voice of the Atlanta Braves, three seasons on radio in Detr
oit with the Tigers, and part-time work on Baltimore Orioles' TV broadcasts
.
Rathbun, who graduated w
ith a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech from Catawba College (1976), and hi
s wife Marybeth have two children, Court and Grace.