About Our Hosts…

The Bad Boy of Sports Radio, Allen Smothers was awarded the 2011 & 2012 NSSA South Carolina Sportscaster of the Year! A veteran of over 35 years in sportscasting and was the first to host a daily sports talk program in both Carolinas, originating from the Pee Dee & Grand Strand. In addition to hosting “The PressBox” for the past 16 years. He has broadcast thousands of prep, college and pro games in the Carolinas. Allen was the first play-by-play announcer hired by the NBA’s D-League in 2001 and has served as radio / TV voice of the nationally-renowned Beach Ball Classic since 1989. His true passion is the NC State Wolfpack and he realized a lifelong dream of calling a series of their baseball games on radio vs. the Clemson Tigers in 2005 for the Capitol Sports Network. In nearly 20 years as a high school assistant & AAU basketball coach, he helped guide dozens of college & pro standouts, including first-ballot NBA Hall of Famer Ray Allen! The Bad Boy is a graduate of the University of Charleston (WV). He and his wife, Shirley, have a son, Cameron (a 2011 graduate of Coastal Carolina University and current Medical Lab Technician), and they live in Socastee.

Matt Jordan (“MJ”), co-host and Executive Producer has been with the program since the early days of “The PressBox” and makes sure things run as planned in our flagship studio in Florence. He also hosts a weekly sports talk program, “GameDay in the Carolinas!” along with partner, Woody Feagin, each Saturday morning 8-10am. In addition, the two also handle the Pee Dee High School Football Game of the Week broadcasts on ESPN Radio 96.3FM every Friday night in the fall. Matt edits and produces various other projects in the podcast universe and hosts a weekly horror movie and media podcast himself, “EMZT Radio” at Emztproductions.us. Matt is single, lives in Florence and his loyalty and responsibility is unmatched…

Bob Schuster (“Bobby Shoo”) works for Clemson University Broadcast Productions, SCETV and hosts the “Your Day” Show on NPR Radio. A proud graduate of West Florence High School and the University of South Carolina (hence the nickname “Benedict Bob”). Bob has done it all in broadcasting, National Network, as well as local TV and radio, but he loves coming “home” to Florence each week in “The PressBox!” Bob and his wife, Phyllis, live in Anderson, SC, and are proud parents of two daughters (one a recent Clemson University graduate and the other pursuing a degree at Anderson University, and a son, who is enrolled in an college engineering program as well.