CARSON --
The Cal State Dominguez Hills men's and women's basketball teams start the 2013 portion of their schedules Friday night against the Cal State Monterey Bay Otters at the Torodome, with both games being televised via Internet TV on the Toro Sports Network.
The Toro Sports Network is the worldwide Internet TV channel featuring Cal State Dominguez Hills athletics. Fans can watch free of charge with no registration required. All remaining basketball home games will be televised as well.
Coverage online at www.GoToros.com/Live starts at 5 o'clock with Toros GameNight counting down to the opening tip at 5:30 p.m. There will be another shorter edition of Toros GameNight about 7:15 pm before the scheduled start of the men's contest at 7:30.
Now in his fifth year, veteran sportscaster David Smock is the coordinating producer and lead play-by-play announcer for the Toro Sports Network. His broadcasting career began in his hometown while a student at Long Beach City College, where he received his A.A. in telecommunications.
Smock is a cum laude graduate of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in communication arts with an emphasis in broadcast journalism.
He was once the sports director at the NBC television affiliate in Billings, Montana. In 2007, Smock received a national cable TV award in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for best sports coverage from The Alliance for Community Media.
Marc Serber of Fox Sports International returns for his second season calling select Toros home basketball games. A Washington, DC, area native, Serber is a graduate of Syracuse University.
His TV work has appeared nationwide on Fox Soccer, Speed channel, Fox Sports en Espanol, and locally on KDOC Channel 56, and currently is the Internet TV play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Blues and Los Angeles Strikers soccer clubs.
An online writer for soccer365 and US Futblog, Serber is also the European football correspondent for Israel Sports Radio in Jerusalem.
Making his Toro Sports Network debut this weekend, Raymond Dietz will serve as a basketball game analyst on select contests this season. Dietz is a former basketball player for the Villanova University Wildcats, a long time NCAA Division I powerhouse, and made his debut as a Toro Sports Network analyst earlier this season at Disney's Division II Tipoff West Coast Classic college basketball tournament for Liquid Event TV.
Another basketball game analyst this year will be former Toros forward Zipporah Brown. Brown played one season at CSUDH after one year at CCAA rival Cal State San Bernardino, and two years at Chaffey College. Basketball runs in Brown family with her father playing at Michigan State and her sister having played at Long Beach State.
