Grande's broadcast career included a seven-year stint at
WEEI (1991–1998), the final three as sports director. The versatile Grande has called WNBA basketball for the
Minnesota Lynx (1999–2001) and
Connecticut Sun (2006–2007), MFS Pro Tennis,
Providence Bruins hockey, Harvard basketball and even Major League Soccer. He co-hosted the 1998 NCAA Hockey Selection show on
ESPN2 and served three years as host of the
Stanley Cup Playoffs on
NHL Radio. In 2005, he became a regular host of Fox Sports Net's
Sports Tonight. in the 2001 release
Joe Somebody starring
Tim Allen. His call of
Ricky Davis' buzzer-beater in November 2005 was used in the soundtrack of the final season premiere of HBO's
The Sopranos in 2006.
MMA and Boxing In July 2015, Grande signed a multi-year deal as the lead play-by-play voice of Spike Sports. He took over as the announcer for
Bellator MMA, the world's #2
mixed martial arts promotion. After stepping down from Bellator full-time in 2017 to spend more time with his son, Grande continued to call occasional Bellator cards, as well as branching out into boxing with both PBC on FOX and Top Rank Boxing on ESPN. He returned to Bellator, now on Showtime, in 2021 to split the play-by-load with
Mauro Ranallo. ==Personal==