He has a wife, Michelle, and four children, three of whom are adults and the youngest of whom is a teenager. On the other hand, while winter is my favorite season in Los Angeles and, normally, the colder . He was restricted when it came to any lifting motion but was happy to be back in time for Pumpkin Patch. Oh, and one more thing: Ben and Skins friendship started on the basketball court. My surgeon said, he asked me when I went in, Why were you even getting checked with the PSA levels? I told him the story of my dad so the bar is moving, Wade said. We did Mavericks post-games from 2001 until 2008, a Saturday show and weekday fill-ins. I was in a bad state with my heart for a good almost six months, I wasnt able to do the physical work.. We just sort of ended up doing radio because thats where the river took us. Everybody heard "Rappers Delight" when it first came out, right? 1234 E Mystic Grove Cv. Was this something you guys knew you wanted to do as kids? I wanted to be Derek Harper. Avatar: The Way of Water. Thats not something that I think radio stations go "Oh, look at what The Ticket has. I stay busy with that. Ben has the bigger personality on our show. Race. Hopefully youll be entertained by a story I wrote in this months issue (Brothers From Another Mother, which is online today). He is the franchise. Lucky for me Mark Followill and Bob Ortegel are great broadcasters so they made it work. Some people like him, many dont. If they need to send me over there to ask a coach about somebodys ankle, I can do that, but Im not really a sideline reporter and Ive never really done that. Hes been with his wife Tricia since 1996 and they live in Allen with their kids Maya and Desmond and three loud dogs. 8@8; Advertise; Agents; Alumni. We feel like its gonna get taken care of., Wade said it was recommended that he not undergo chemotherapy and/or radiation as he recuperates because Im so young, or I could be worse off., Following his Dec. 2 surgery, he said, Ill have restrictions for two to four months. But I've always liked it as an overly self-conscious adult. I got to know his wife, I got to know his -- I dont want to say handler -- but the person that handled all his charitable efforts and social media stuff. Skin was added to the Dallas Mavericks TV Broadcast in the 08-09 season and was lucky to be a part of the historic title run in 2011. The show kicked off on Monday, Feb. 10, and airs weekdays from 2:00-5:00 p.m. On the side, Wade works the sidelines at Dallas Mavericks games and Wade has focused on his duties as co-owner, with Rogers, of Rollertown Beerworks in Celina, which is expected to open this year. For reasons not yet determined, Black people have a greater risk of prostate cancer than do people of other races. , Sandy, UT. I really did not want to leave ESPN. Its really been an incredible ride for me and Ben. The most interesting thing is that he never takes a seat, despite the fact that he has been in the saddle for most of his life. Elliott's attorneys also say the NFL violated the labor deal by withholding key information from Goodell and Elliott's representatives. My parents have always had my back in all my weird endeavors and he worked with my schedule so that I could chase a radio gig. When he comes in with Phoenix, everybody is just lining up to hug the guy. He's really fun to talk other sports with because he's such a sports fanatic. Still sounds good. This is more than a music release, though. It felt like the playoffs really amazing. Obesity. That ain't cool. Hes just a great guy. A bluebird day is a skier's term for a sunny day following a big dump of snow. When Jeff "Skin" Wade met Ben Rogers at 12 years old, hosting a sports talk radio show wasn't what they dreamed of doing. He then worked for nearly a decade selling TV advertising for CBS, where he won DFWs prestigious AWRT Award of Excellence for being the very best at his craft in his industry. Like. This is a versatile team. I recently downloaded a bunch of 80s Beggars Banquet stuff I liked in high school, like The Cult record "Love." But we call her "Gator," which is a championship-caliber grandmother name in my opinion. 97.1 The Eagle is the current home of the popular long-time local sports radio personalities Ben Rogers and Jeff "Skin" Wade, "The Ben and Skin Show," which airs in the afternoons. Skin: I mentioned Michael Young. Remember when you didnt believe in us? Being a MFFL is something to be proud of. Initial reading: 39.87. For our 3rdsegment of 10 Things You Didnt Know, we wanted to let you all become a little more acquainted with a true talent in Jeff Skin Wade. The organization was established in 1983, is headquartered in Allen, Texas, and plays all home games at the Allen Event Center. You know what Im saying? Its been kinda a tough deal for the whole family me basically almost dying from my heart, then hearing I had cancer, he said. But none of those guys are the sixth all-time leading scorer in their entire sport or spent their whole career with one team or sacrificed so much money for the good of the team. Thats fine. Jeff 'Skin' Wade. 1234 Camino de la Reina. Can you take us on your journey through the media world? Suite 2100 See also. Wades message for men is simple: Dont wait until its too late. Check out this poignant piece about Chadwick and @bastardsofsoul. I always have some classic reggae, particularly dub, in the mix and I'm sucker for 70s soul. I was incredibly honored and I was in it for a few months, but at this time Im sort of older and washed up and I have one kid and another one coming, the radio gig is kind of starting to take off so I sort of had to bow out. Im not trying to make him out to be a saint, but its like when you see other people within that context and how selfish they can be, childish they can be, it just makes you respect people like him so much more. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. That seems real obvious, yeah. As much fun as it is to tease him about his early career as a White rapper, the guy to this day is a legit music producer, and hes working on a very cool initiative.. Now I feel like it's up to me to get him acquainted with some of NWA's better tracks so that he can truly reach his full potential. Ummmmm, dudes, ummmmm - Randy Gregory is going to have an impact this year. By Jeff "Skin" Wade | @SkinWade These are the most important things I've learned after seeing two Cowboys practices out here in Oxnard. Its a community of hardcore Mavericks fans dedicated to one thing and one thing only: Supporting the Dallas Mavericks. This bio contains no further information. KT actually began doing radio at the age of 13, before hed even fully hit puberty. At the age I'm at, I'm 47 years old, hip-hop and basketball were really intertwined in a massive way as hip-hop grew. Post a comment as . 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It was an honor to be asked and I did a couple gigs with them and it was a blast. He loves golf and beer equally, and is a partner in RollerTown Beerworks with Rogers in Celina, TX. We had no plan to be radio hosts, but once you get your feet wet, you're like, "Man, this is pretty badass. Cancer is a scary word, he said. I was a fourth grader and my sister brought back 12-inch singles home. Max Wade in 2016, before his recent prostate cancer diagnosis and need for a pacemaker. Can we keep doing this?". Photo of Ben Rogers and Jeff 'Skin' Wade courtesy of Anthony Lowery/91.7 The Eagle Meanwhile, Turner says the writing was on the wall as early as Dallas Cowboys training camp in August after . Hard in the Paint: Summer Special Hard in the Paint Subcribe to the Hard in the Paint podcast on iTunes! Prostate cancer doesnt care who its victims are: Black or White, young or old, athlete or weakling. Jeff Skin Wade is known as half of the Ben and Skin Show, which he co-hosts with Ben Rogers from 2-5 weekdays on 97.1 KEGL. We were playing basketball. Choose wisely! Enjoy unlimited access to all of our incredible journalism, in print and digital. In Black people, prostate cancer is also more likely to be aggressive or advanced. But other types are aggressive and can spread quickly. I have the full-time radio gig, I have the Mavericks gig and then me and my partner in San Antonio have this music production company that we run and it keeps me really really busy. I think if youre an NBA fan and youre not listening to our show, I think youre probably missing out because I think our NBA stuff is as good as anybodys anywhere. Just click the to create your snippet! Ive made great friends. He's obviously more on the lean side, but I think his athleticism is going to make him a VERY useful pass rusher this season. We knew her when she was just playing gigs and stuff around town. If he helps even just one man get an early detection of prostate cancer, his story here will have been worth it. Get the latest D-FW sports news, analysis, scores and more. When the opportunity opened up at [The Fan], we took it. Good call, Bruce. It used to be called the library music world where, you know in advertising, companies or TV producers or whatever need music and they dont want to hire a composer because thats expensive, so they go and they license music. I appear to not be aging particularly well. "Ben and. No spam, ever. CBS 11 Sports reached out to the Dallas Cowboys for comment,. I can hardly contain my excitement over those types of things. I mean, I believe in myself and Im confident and I think I do a good job, but I still cant believe it actually happened. Hes the greatest man Ive ever met in the corporate world, hes a real person. Its not that hes a bad guy or whatever, he just had a different vision. Here we are 10 years later and Im still on the broadcast. It's like, people make decisions and immediately get paranoid about what the corporate level's going to think. Indeed, he has earned the respect of his peers in a very short amount of time, which is not bad for an aspiring astronaut. So me and Ruben kept the company, were still very active in it and we have, for lack of a better term, a team of writers that work with us and we create music and still have these business relationships. Saturday afternoon March 30, 2013 against the Bulls. How Rangers Players like Corey Seager, Mitch Garver, and Brock Burke will adjust to Rule Changes. All rights reserved. 1. I'm glad his nickname is "Lucky" instead of "Tiny" because "Tiny Whitehead" kind of sounds gross. Youll see creative stuff roll out on all sorts of screens. It was just sort of a natural extension of he and I have always been involved in doing creative projects together, whether it was making funny videos or recording music or whatever that creative impulse or urge was, he and I were always involved in it together. No ones ever leaving, why would you leave Nirvana? One of my favorites, and it was only for one year, but the year that we had -- me and Ben were at ESPN -- and the year that we did, we used to have a thing called "Drive time with Tyson Chandler," and it didnt have a set time. Most cancers are curable if you get checked, he said. Its worked out great for The Fan because the listeners we built up at ESPN -- I think we were there four years or three years, whatever it was -- a lot of them came over with us. Inspired by their journey, I took a risk in how I chose to bring you their narrative, inviting them to collaborate in the storytelling rather than just serve as subjects. Man, thats a rare thing. They know way more than me, right? Stars at the All-Star Break: Where Does Dallas Stand as Deboer, Robertson head to Florida? Jeff 'Skin' Wade dishes on his hip-hop background, why he left ESPN Radio and how he got his nickname FILE - Ben Rogers (left) and "Skin" Wade (right) from 105.3 The Fan's Ben and. Everybodys got their own sensibilities. WATCH: Jeff Skin Wade update | Dallas, Dallas, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Mavericks | Everyone needs some @SkinWade in their life! After temporarily filling in for 97.1 host Jeff "Skin" Wade earlier this year when Wade underwent cancer treatment, Rhyner, Wade and his cohost Ben Rogers began exchanging ideas about. Copyright 2023, D Magazine Partners, Inc. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Still scrapping at it and then suddenly I get offered a full-time radio job. But it wasnt really our decision. So basketball was sort of the sport of hip-hop. I cant believe that has happened. His lively personality has been well received in the Dallas-Ft.Worth area, and to everyone else that is a part of the Mavs Nation. . Obviously the team did too. Those of us who are lucky enough to have sports media jobs aspired to do that in the first place because we were passionate fans growing up. From there, he took is unimpressive work ethic and misguided sense of reality out into the world where it subsequently and ferociously windmill dunked on him and his Hail Mary dream to one day become a successful rap artist. And now I work with him. As a team "Ben & Skin," once professional rappers in a group called "Suns of Sl," have hit the local sports talk cycle. This American, John Simonis Simonis is a renowned artist who has created many public artworks. Jeff 'Skin' Wade and the Record Label That Wants to Change Dallas As our feature profile of Ben and Skin goes live, a look at a side project that wants to help some Dallas nonprofits and. Reds, blues and greens filled an intimate venue for such an influential artist. So its like "Huh, how do I do this?". 1. He is a figment of our best imagination. Theres old recordings of us just on old audio cassette. In short: more collaborations are coming. Here are some of the highlights. The very first game I did was a Knicks game and it was a January game and I honestly, truly didnt know why I was on the broadcast, I didnt know what I was doing, I didnt know what my role was, I just knew I was there. Theyre going to cut through in five different places in my abdominal wall, and hernias are a very common problem after that so I wont get released for physical activity for four months.. Happy bday to a guy Ive known since he was 12 - my dude @SkinWade. Next week, Wade tips off his eighth season as a Mavericks TV analyst on Fox Sports Southwest. Description. Its not because "Hey, do great things for Skin." I think were going on three or four years with him. ), First published on August 5, 2015 / 11:45 AM. Never hit another man in anger unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it. I mean, theres really only one guy that was making decisions about us and I had never had more than a five-minute conversation with him. It's hard to wrangle it all in. Jeff 'Skin' Wade is known for Shithouse (2020), Bastards of Soul: Just a Little Bit (2020) and Bastards of Soul: It's Gonna Be Alright. I got that nickname as a junior in high school, short for skinny. Wade: Working in the front office of a NBA team. Fanatics View has been producing original content since 2016 and is one of the most accomplished sports media start-ups in modern history, specializing in exclusive sports video content. He oversees SportsDay's digital content and The News' college sports contributor program. Lucky Whitehead is tiny. Everything Everywhere All . I appreciated all of it immensely. But The Fan has worked out fantastic, we love the people there. Aside from his medical credentials, he has had a long list of accomplishments, including being the only astronaut in space, as well as having a stint as a Texas Air Force base medic, to name but a few. As our feature profile of Ben and Skin goes live, a look at a side project that wants to help some Dallas nonprofits and has more than a few big names participating. Now, some of them like their shows better than our show. It was a really fun season and he was a great guy to have on as a weekly guest. Michael Finley is an amazing dude. It was like, kids would come up and freestyle and there's actually video that's out there, that exists of her doing the song "Appletree," which is on her debut album, and she's doing it over the Roy Ayers instrumental remix of The Roots song called "Proceed." I stayed with it, I loved it and then when I graduated from high school I thought I was going to be a writer. The aforementioned Ben and Skin show is cohosted by Dallas Mavericks tv color analyst Jeff "Skin" Wade. What did Ben Rogers and Jeff "Skin" Wade do when they found themselves in the middle of another non-compete period? You cant just go "Oh, were going to do this." To find out more about Skinand his awesome radio personality, check out him on Twitter and find him on his radio show at 105.3 FM The Fan weekdways from 2:00-6:00 pm. Other Locations. To name a few: Leon Bridges, Keite Young, S1, Black Pumas, Bastards of Soul, Sarah Jaffe, BADBADNOTGOOD, and Sam Lao. The show kicked off on Monday, Feb. 10, and airs weekdays from 2:00-5:00 p.m. On the side, Wade works the sidelines at Dallas Mavericks games and Wade has focused on his duties as co-owner, with Rogers, of Rollertown Beerworks in . It looks like we don't have any Biography for Jeff 'Skin' Wade yet. Ben and myself and then another guy named Chris Alvarez, we were all in a rap group in the early '90s. Obviously, its a much smaller scale, but I think its probably similar to what ABC was trying to do when they threw Dennis Miller on, or what ESPN was trying to do when they were integrating Bill Simmons into some of their NBA broadcasts. Throughout the season FC Dallas players, coaches and members of the front office will join popular Dallas radio hosts Ben Rogers and Jeff "Skin" Wade on at 1PM CT on the iHeartRadio . The times I wrote screenplays, I usually wrote them around songs or music or those kinds of things. Im thinking "Im going to be a music producer and me and Ruben will have this company. Q: You started your own music production company called Ehko Music. Heres why he prefers it that way, Why Stars win over Coyotes came when Dallas needed it most, Are these Rangers good? May have been alphabetical, or perhaps wanting a hard consonant sound at the beginning of the name, but it definitely fits what the show is. Really, I have three gigs. ESPN was operated by Cumulus. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. A few people believe he earned them, most dont. So we started doing one-hour "specialty" radio shows on what was then Fox-AM 1190. On the side, Wade also works the sidelines at Dallas Mavericks games and owns a music production company. I really think the bar needs to be changed to at least 40 (for a checkup), he says. Problems urinating, including a slow or weak urinary stream or the need to urinate more often, especially at night; Trouble getting an erection (erectile dysfunction or ED); Pain in the hips, back (spine), chest (ribs), or other areas from cancer that has spread to bones; and/or. It wasnt just rah-rah $h!t neither. [Jeff] Cavanaughs great. The funny thing is, I was having trouble with my heart as well. Make decisions and immediately get paranoid about what the Ticket has that are. Worked out fantastic, we Love the people there of a NBA team for Skin. he said decisions immediately. 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