Always on call: Gary Cohen’s life behind the mic

Every sport has an offseason, but Gary Cohen rarely gets time off.

A 24-year veteran, the play-by-play man spends all months of the year behind a microphone. As SNY’s television announcer for the New York Mets and the radio voice of Seton Hall basketball for AM970 The Answer, Cohen is always on the call somewhere. He works other college hoops games, too, like the wild Kentucky-North Carolina Elite Eight matchup on March 26. That night he was on the dial for Westwood One.

Gary Cohen has been SHU’s play-by-play man since 2003-04. Photo via SHU Athletics.Cohen’s top priority is baseball, but he makes it a point to see some action on the hardwood. He welcomes the challenge of a tricky schedule…