Dan O'Toole
| Dan O'Toole | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 10, 1975 Peterborough, Ontario, Canada |
| Other names | Toolsie, Old Man Toolsie, Daniel Gerard O'Toole |
| Occupation | Sports anchor |
| Known for | SportsCentre, Fox Sports Live, The Jay and Dan Podcast |
Daniel Gerard O'Toole (born September 10, 1975) is a Canadian television sports anchor. From 2003 to 2013, he co-hosted the 1:00 AM (ET) weekday broadcast of TSN's SportsCentre, alongside Jay Onrait. On May 3, 2013, O'Toole and Onrait revealed they would be leaving TSN and Canada at the end of June to work as co-anchors on the newly created Fox Sports 1 channel based in Los Angeles. He began working for Fox Sports 1 in August 2013. He and Onrait hosted their final show on TSN, June 28, 2013.
O'Toole grew up in the rural community of Keene, Ontario and attended St. Peter's Secondary School in nearby Peterborough, Ontario. He graduated from Algonquin College in 1996 with a diploma in radio broadcasting. He has two children, Ruby, age four, and Sydney, age seven, with wife Corrie. He has two older brothers, Vince and Sean..
From 2003 to June 28, 2013, O'Toole co-hosted the 1:00 AM (ET) weekday broadcast of SportsCentre alongside Jay Onrait. As host of Sportscentre, he brought viewers a complete summary of the day's sports events, including highlights and post-game reports.
O'Toole previously worked as a news anchor at Citytv Vancouver and moved to Vancouver in 1997 where he worked as a traffic reporter for CJJR-FM and CFUN-AM. He moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta in 1998 where he worked as a sports director for CJOK-FM and CKYX-FM for three years. While there, O'Toole called play-by-play for the Fort McMurray Oil Barons of the AJHL. He then worked for CTV Edmonton as the Fort McMurray evening news reporter.
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