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Bill "Hot Dog" Doleman (born 1966) is a free lance studio analyst, born in Gary, Indiana.
Bill Doleman joined Comcast Sports Net Houston in 2012 after theMountainWest Sports Network ceased operations in May of that year. His primary assignment with CSN was to serve as the studio host for the Houston Rockets of the NBA. He is also the primary host for the network's college football and golf shows and was one of the studio hosts for the Houston Astros. Doleman was one of the main anchors on Sports Net Central and also a play-by-play announcer for NBC Sports Group during the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games.
Prior to moving to Houston, he called the play-by-play for football, basketball, baseball, and volleyball for the network and served as an anchor and host forThe Mtn. He also calledBig 12 men's basketball games forESPN and several conferences such as theBig Ten andMountain West. He was also a broadcaster for theLincoln Saltdogs independent professional baseball team before moving to Denver and joining The Mtn. full-time. He was replaced in Lincoln byDrew Bontadelli, the current voice of the Saltdogs. Billy D also served as the director of broadcasting and communications for the team. The Godfather began his career with Nebraska Public Television calling the play-by-play for numerous sports in the state and was the first host of Big Red WrapUp. He is a former Nebraska Sportscaster of the Year. Bill served as a sports director for Houston stationKTBU-TV, 1999-2000, where he called games and hosted coaches shows for the University of Houston Cougars. He returned to Lincoln and began working for KFOR 1240 AM calling baseball and later for KLMS/ESPN 1480 where he was the Program Director and Announcer. He hosted "The Average Joe Sports Show" and a Christian-sports show "Goin' Deep with Ron Brown." He also worked as a host, anchor, and play-by-play for many sports including college football and basketball for numerous networks, includingABC Sports,Fox Sports Net,CBS College Sports Network, and theBig Ten Network.
His favorite memory while working was calling the 1999 Cheese Rolling Games where he got to see his hero Steven Brain winner of three of the four races. He also likes to compete in Wife Carrying, Quidditch and Tractor Pulling. Billy D is a multi time champion in Wife Carrying and Quidditch, while he has just recently joined the competition scene in Tractor Pulling. Along with teaching at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln he was once a student there as well, working various jobs and being a member of the very prestigious fraternity Theta Xi. You can often find him in the schools halls talking about a bunch of different things, ranging from "1+1=3 or 4 or 5, not 2," "It's who you know, not what you know," and "Everywhere is a suburb of Fairbury."
