It takes a long time to become Dale Hansen, 30 years in fact. That's how long the bombastic, wisecracking dean of Dallas sportscasters has been doing his shtick at WFAA Channel 8, a career that ...

Dale Hansen, the weeknight sports anchor for WFAA-TV's 10 p.m. newscast, seems like a traditional sportscaster. "I'm just a small-town guy from Logan, Iowa," he says in his bio on the website for ...

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After more than three decades at Channel 8, Dale Hansen is the sportscaster who gets away with wearing Hawaiian shirts and shorts when covering Cowboys training camp, bashing his own station and ...