Ron Burke joined KOAT-7 in January of 2021 as a news anchor and sports director.
He comes to the Land of Enchantment from our sister station WPBF 25 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Before that he spent much of his career in Philadelphia, PA as an award-winning sports anchor, host and reporter, he made the transition to news in 2018.
Ron has reported on news stories ranging from education, tourism, agriculture and hurricanes to political campaigns. He also kept his hand in sports by reporting from Major League Baseball camps and putting together features on local athletes.
Ron joined Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia in 1997 as anchor of the morning show, SportsRise. After spending a year with NBATV, he rejoined CSN in 2002, and remained with the network until 2017.
and the game is so big we re going outside the world of soccer and bringing in malik rose, two-time nba champion from comcast sportsnet philadelphia. great to have you both, fellas. let s start with the obvious. conditions matter in this sport. how do they play into strategy what, lara was saying about how hard you try? how real is this? i think it plays into your strategy in that you need to be extra cautious with every single pass that you make because the ball is going to be skipping, and then if the field starts to get really he have, then the ball starts to get very heavy and starts slowing down actually, especially if there s a puddle or something like that. you don t know what drainage there is at this stadium so basically what they need to do somebody cautious at every moment, especially against this german team that can turn the game very quickly into the attack. what is the key to the german team. if it s raining throughout the game, is it helping the u.s., helping german