Kaplan has also been the announcer for the Chicago Machine and Chicago Shamrox.
He also calls college basketball games for various conferences including the Atlantic 10 Conference on NBCSN, the Missouri Valley Conference, the Horizon League and several others. He was the former pre and postgame host for NBC Sports Chicago's Chicago Cubs broadcasts where he partnered with former Chicago Cubs outfielder Todd Hollandsworth, former Chicago Cubs outfielder David DeJesus and former Cubs outfielder Doug Glanville.
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Kaplan hosted the pre game and post game shows for the Chicago Cubs on either radio (WGN Radio) or TV for 25 seasons from 1995 to 2019. He partnered with longtime Chicago Tribune lead sports columnist David Haugh on this show. He was the co-host of the Kap and Haugh show on Comcast SportsNet Chicago which aired from 2013 to 2015. In November 2012, Kaplan was hired by the NBC Sports Network to call college basketball games after a long stint as a basketball announcer for ESPN. He has also appeared as a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show and he was in the documentary Hoop Dreams during his basketball scouting days. In 2013, this show changed its name to Sports Talk Live, which Kaplan hosted for several years until it was cancelled by the pandemic in August 2020. In November 2009, he and the staff of "Chicago Tribune Live" were awarded the prestigious Emmy Award for Best Interview Program for their work on CTL. In January 2008, Kaplan was named the host of Chicago Tribune Live on Comcast SportsNet. In December 2010, after the removal of Metheny, Kaplan signed a new long-term contract to stay at WGN Radio as the primary host of a new evening talk show called WGN Sports Night.
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It was the longest-running sports talk show in Chicago (began in 1982), until March 2010 when the former Program Director Kevin Metheny, who was characterized in the Howard Stern movie Private Parts as Kenny "Pig Vomit" Rushton opted to replace the program with a non-sports oriented talk show. After Waddle left to join ESPN Radio in February 2007, Kaplan hosted the show on a solo basis until March 2010. He and former Chicago Bears star Tom Waddle co-hosted the show for just over 10 years which at the time was the longest on air sports talk duo in Chicago radio history. He became the host of Sports Central at WGN in 1995 and it quickly became Chicago radio's #1 rated sports talk show. Kaplan worked at Chicago sports radio station WMVP-AM before joining WGN (AM)'s sports staff as a reporter in 1995. He was also a scout for two NBA teams: the Indiana Pacers and the Seattle SuperSonics. He was an assistant on head coach John McDougal's staff at Northern Illinois University from 1982 to 1986 for NIU's Men's Basketball Team. Paul, Minnesota, where he received a bachelor's degree in English. Kaplan grew up in Skokie, Illinois and is a graduate of Hamline University in St.
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