 He grew up in the Randolph Hills area of Rockville, Maryland and attended Rocking Horse Road Elementary School, Randolph Junior High School and graduated from Wheaton High School in Wheaton, Maryland.His first broadcasting job came when he was hired by the late Pierre Eaton, the owner and general manager of his hometown radio station, WINX Radio, in Rockville, Maryland.There he hosted a high school sports show and did play by play for local high school football games on WINX, and did a weekly college basketball show highlighting the University of Maryland basketball team known as "Terrapin Talk".