Look out Ticket Hard Line – Lake Highlands has its own sports talk radio personality, and he’s only seventeen.
When Shan Singh, a junior at Lake Highlands High School, pitched the idea of starting a sports department to a local radio station, managers gave him a few minutes at the end of the week for his own show. Singh started hosting the “Weekend Sports Roundup” on Fridays for 104.9 FM Radio Salaam Namaste, a station that caters to listeners from India — where Singh was born — and Pakistan.
But when listeners started tuning in for Singh’s take on Dallas’ sports scene, 104.9 FM gave him a full hour-long show at 4 pm on Saturdays. Now, Singh talks about everything — the Cowboys, the Mavericks, and the Stars, along with college sports and anything else going on locally. The station even got Singh credentials to cover the Mavericks officially so he could attend home games and interview the Mavs for his show
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Singh came to America with his parents and his older brother when he was five-years-old. While he doesn’t remember much about India or speak Hindi like his family, Singh remembers loving sports since he was young. “As a child, Dirk Nowitzki was my favorite,” Shan told me, “and he is still great, but now I really like Jason Terry. He is nice enough to spend lots of time talking to me. He’s a really great guy.”
After he graduates from high school, Singh says he’d like to visit relatives in India. After that, he’d like to attend OU or UT to study journalism. He’s the Editor-In-Chief of the LHHS newspaper The Fang and also worked as their sports writer. Singh says he wants to write for a newspaper, continue with radio, AND work as a television news reporter. “I don’t see why I can’t do all three,” he says.
Even though Shan gets to cover big time Dallas teams and athletes, he still enjoys following Wildcat sports. “(LH football, basketball, and baseball player) Ricky Zorn is in lots of my classes, so he and I talk about sports a lot,” he says, “and I follow the tennis team with Maguire Boles.”
Shan (pronounced Shawn) played football and basketball at Forest Meadow Junior High, where he got to know most of the athletes first-hand. Now that many of them have discovered his radio show, he’d acquired celebrity status around the school. He’s interviewed Randy Galloway of ESPN’s 103.3 FM and Jean-Jacques Taylor of the Dallas Morning News.
Yesterday, he extended an open invitation to another local sports talk radio personality — Corby Davidson of The Ticket 1310 FM. “Anytime The Cobra wants to be on my show, he’s welcome,” Singh says.
