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Jake Shapiro

Multi-dimensional journalist and broadcaster

Since he was a teenager, Jake has been a credentialed sports reporter. He covers breaking news for the Denver Post. Previously Jake covered the Colorado Rapids for the Denver Post, the Colorado Rockies primarily for RoxPile but all major sports in Denver for the Associated Press and was the voice of Boulder Collegians Baseball. Jake still works as a CU Buffs Hoops beat writer on BuffStampede. 'Shap' has done play-by-play on the radio for all CU Buffs games in many sports for several years. He recently graduated with a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder accompanied by a minor in history alongside studies in Spanish.

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WRITTEN

DENVER – It reeked of champagne inside the Colorado clubhouse just 18 hours after they clinched a postseason berth for the first time in eight years. The Rockies were not done drinking in celebration just yet.
Manager Bud Black stopped his men, called them over to Charlie Blackmon’s locker and had each raise a glass with the leftover bubbly from the night before.
Black and company were now toasting Blackmon’s batting title.
Blackmon, a self-described ‘not a big stand-up-in-front-of-everybody kind of guy,’ when pressured to speak in front of his entire team said back, “this is fun, I don’t always have fun and you guys know that, but this is fun.”

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PLAY-BY-PLAY

Jake's play-by-play has been called "enthusiastic," "on pace" and "enjoyable." Calling NCAA Football, Men's & Women's Basketball, Hockey, Volleyball, Lacrosse and more Jake has been the voice of CU sports for the community run KVCU and has ascended to a similar role for the similarly affiliated BuffSportsLive. In the summer of 2018 Jake was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to be the head of broadcasting for the summer collegiate Boulder Collegians.

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BROADCAST

Jake has provided post game stand-ups of almost every single CU Buffs sporting event over the last several years. The past few Rockies seasons he was tasked with doing similar video features for MLB. Along with this Jake has been the associate producer of BuffSportsLive which runs on FoxCollegeSports and he often anchors the show.

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INTERVIEW

Jake has been the executive producer of Buffs and Rockies podcasts for five years for varying homes. The BSN Rockies Podcast which Jake co-hosted every single day has a five star i-Tunes rating and is the most popular Rockies podcast on the web. He carried that success onto starting his own Rockie Road Podcast where he has sold adverting and hosted big name guess. "Shap" has sat down for one on one interviews with guests such as All-Star Nolan Arenado, Hall of Fame basketball legend Bill Walton, Rockies GM Jeff Bridich, Cy Young candidate Kyle Freeland, Denver Basketball head coach Rodney Billups, Seahawks safety Tedric Thompson and many more.

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