Ari Louis is the C.E.O. of IsraelSportsRadio.com.
Ari Louis was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. When Louis was 16, he hosted, starred, wrote and produced “The Ari Louis Show” for four years on a local Phoenix television channel.
When Louis was 19, he hosted a live call-in sports show our of Tucson, Arizona. Louis attended Arizona State University (ASU), where he studied broadcasting at the prestigious Walter Cronkite school. While on campus, Louis founded the Chabad of ASU and was Vice President of ASU for Israel.
After graduation, Louis ran his own business. During his free time, he was a popular caller to sports talk shows in Phoenix, in particular “The Jeff Dean Show” on Extra Sports 910, as well as the “Gambo and Ash Show” on Sports 620 KTAR.
In his free time, Ari enjoys playing chess and basketball and listening to books on tape.
His favorite sports team is the Phoenix Mercury, the 2009 world champions of the WNBA.
Jasmine Marcus serves as Israel Sports Radio’s College Basketball Foreign Correspondent.
Jasmine is a proud Jersey Girl who is excited to see her state get the glory it deserves on reality television. She recently graduated from Cornell University — an emerging basketball powerhouse — where she served as the Assistant Managing Editor of The Cornell Daily Sun. At The Sun, Jasmine began her sports journalism career and had the privilege of covering the men’s basketball team’s epic run to the Sweet Sixteen. She also reinstated a popular column called 10 Questions, interviewing athletes about their lives off the field. In addition, Jasmine has held a series of journalism internships for The Forward Radio, WOR Radio and The New York Times Local Blog. After making a promise to live in Israel as a senior in high school, Jasmine is excited to return to the country to bond with her cousins, improve her Hebrew and cheer on the Ashkelon Basketball team! You can follow Jasmine on twitter at www.twitter.com/JazzyM.
David Pick works as Israel Sports Radio’s European Basketball Journalist.
David “Dubi” Pick was born in New Jersey. Came to Israel with his family in 1993 and has been here ever since. Moved from Jerusalem to the city of Ra’anana 6 years ago.
As a teenager, David was named one of 24 best basketball players of his age group throughout Jerusalem. He still plays basketball in a semi pro league. David is currently the main sports reporter for the Israeli sports website – sportline.co.il. In addition David is writing for the largest website focusing on European Basketball, Eurobasket.com. In April 2010, David joined The American Sports Talk Show on Rusty Mike Radio as a guest host, covering all Israeli sports, securing interviews with basketball stars such as: Omri Casspi (First Israeli Player in NBA), David Bluthenthal (Former USC, now plays for Maccabi T”A), Jeremy Pargo (Gonzaga Star & BSL Israeli Champion with Galil/Gilboa). David is enrolled at the IDC University in Herzeliya and will begin his B.A. program in communication, October 2010. DP is a huge basketball fan and follows the Israeli teams especially Maccabi T”A, Hapoel J”M, Maccabi Haifa and Bnei-Hasharon all over the country. If you must know, DP’s favorite food is pizza.
Jeremy Last serves as Israel Sports Radio’s Israeli Soccer League Columnist.
Jeremy is an Israeli sports fanatic. Since moving to Israel from London, England, in January 2005 he has become increasingly involved in the local sports world, first as a local soccer supporter and then as a sports journalist. From June 2007 to June 2010 Jeremy worked as the Sports Editor at The Jerusalem Post, significantly increasing the level of the newspaper’s sports coverage. From the top quality soccer and basketball reports to the introduction of features such as the Israeli Sports Personality of the Year award, the Post’s sports section was strongly impacted by Jeremy’s vision and innovation. Jeremy has covered numerous major sporting events, including Israel national soccer team games at home and abroad, Davis Cup tennis and the Euroleague Final Four in Madrid. He has also interviewed many famous personalities, such as Guma Aguiar, Omri Casspi and Tal Brody.
After leaving the newspaper Jeremy moved into the world of marketing where he works as a copywriter. He is, however, still very involved in the world of Israeli sports and the Israeli sports media, continuing to freelance as the AP’s sports reporter in Israel, a role he has held since March 2007. Jeremy is also the Israel correspondent for London’s Jewish News newspaper. Jeremy’s favorite English team is AFC Bournemouth and favorite NBA club is The Sacramento Kings (following the sad demise of the Seattle Supersonics). Despite being born and raised in Britain, he has become a basketball fan, although his heart really lies in soccer. Jeremy lives in Modi’in with his wife Adriana and little doggy Cali.
Jeremy “Man” Saltan serves as Israel Sports Radio’s Chicago Sports Contributor.
An entertainment jack-of-all-trades, Jeremy is best known as Off The Wall Comedy Basement’s club co-owner, house comedian and former club manager. Jeremy’s previous experience includes theatrical directing, film producing, writing, acting and modeling. Saltan has also had “real” jobs, but they were a lot less interesting. The ‘political man of comedy’ currently works in the Knesset doing legislative work and has a blog covering the Knesset’s activities.
A former sports field reporter for “Argaman Magazine”, Jeremy is excited to make the move to the “Israel Sports Radio” booth. The former Chicagoan is a die-hard Cubs, Bulls and Bears fan, and he likes the Blackhawks too. He also hates the “white sucks”. Jeremy is married to Cheryl, a big-time Boston fan, and they get along just fine.
Brin-Jonathan Butler serves as Israel Sports Radio’s Boxing Journalist and Foreign Correspondent.
Brin has written for The Toronto Quarterly, The Rumpus, Annalemma Magazine, and The New York Times. Brin has been working on a memoir about his time living and boxing in Cuba entitled, “The Domino Diaries”. A documentary taken from this book has been optioned called, “Hero, Traitor, Madness” (herotraitormadness.com), chronicling the life of the greatest amateur boxer who ever lived, Cuban boxing legend Guillermo Rigondeaux, and his remarkable journey to America to become a world champion in the hopes of retrieving his family.
Andy Gershman
was born and raised as a sports fan in Richmond, Virginia. After many years as a Richmond/Atlanta Braves fan he moved to the Boston Area. The cold New England Air influenced his love for the Boston Celtics, Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots and Boston Bruins. Professionally he has sold advertising for both Israel Sports Radio and RustyMike Radio and helped to build and develop client relationships. In addition, he worked as a retail store manager for Old Navy, Sears, Foot Locker and Office Max. Before making Aliyah he worked in a Women’s Correctional Facility teaching courses on job transition.
In November of 2009, Andy, along with Ari Louis, co-hosted The American Sports Talk Show on Rusty Mike Radio. This show featured interviews and talk with some of the biggest starts in sports from Israel and beyond. Some of the great athletes interviewed were Jon Scheyer, Alan Veingrad, Jeremy Pargo, Darrryl Sittler, Dmitriy Salita and Paul Henderson. Israeli Athletes included, Omri Casspi, Shay Doron, Yuri Forman, Tamar Katz and Roman Zaretski.
During his time off from work, many hours were spent listening to and calling sports talk radio shows in Boston and Richmond. He was a frequent caller to The Big Show on WEEI in Boston and The Final Round on Sports Radio 910 in Richmond.
Andy holds a BS from Salem State College in Salem, Massachusetts, and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Human Resource Management from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.