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Brian Davis


 Television Play-by-Play announcer
Brian Davis enters his fourth  season as television voice of the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder. A veteran broadcaster, Davis returned to the NBA in 2004 as host of Seattle Sonics broadcasts on FSN Northwest.

Davis regularly covered the Chicago Bulls during the Michael Jordan era and became a contributor to NBA Radio, hosting game broadcasts and serving as sideline reporter for the network during the 1991 playoffs and NBA Finals. He later hosted Bulls broadcasts on FSN Chicago and occasionally called Sonics games in Seattle. He has an extensive play-by-play resume at the college level, including the Big Ten, Pac-10, Conference USA and the Mid-American Conference.

Davis has called games at the professional level in four other sports: NFL football, as radio voice of the Seattle Seahawks; College Football on CBS/Westwood One;  NHL hockey, in a reserve role with Chicago Blackhawks; and soccer, with Major League Soccer’s Chicago Fire. He has also worked as pre-season play-by-play announcer for the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals.

As a sports anchor for CBS Radio and its Chicago all-news affiliate, Davis covered major events including the Olympics, NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Finals. His resume includes football play-by-play in the Big Ten, Pac-10 and MAC. He is an accomplished interviewer and talk show host and has won several professional awards, including one for investigative journalism during his days as a news reporter in Chicago.

Davis holds a journalism degree from Northwestern University. He and his wife, Judy, have two children and make their home in the Oklahoma City area.

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Trey Bender

Trey Bender is a Los Angeles based play by play announcer and host whose resume includes football, basketball, baseball and swimming in the WAC, Mountain West, Big 12 and Big 10 conferences on ESPN Regional and ESPNU as well as NBC Universal Sports. Additionally, from 1996-2002 Bender was the television voice of the University of Kansas, his alma mater.

Bender has also worked in Phoenix and Chicago. He was the voice of college sports on Fox Sports Net Arizona and Chicago. While with FSN, he also hosted a variety of programs for the network focused on the college sports scene.

Bender’s radio resume is just as extensive. While in Arizona, he was the voice of ASU Baseball and his time in Chicago includes a three year stint as the voice of Loyola University Basketball. While in Chicago, Bender began as a national sports anchor and talk show host for the Sporting News Radio Network. It’s a position he continues today as an anchor and part time host on Yahoo Sports Radio.

Bender began his broadcast career in 1991 as voice of the Angels minor league affiliate in Boise. He moved to Arizona in 1993 where he quickly became a mainstay in the market as voice of the AFL’s Arizona Rattlers and a radio anchor/reporter.

Bender is the son of long-time network announcer, Gary Bender. His wife, Amy is also a sports announcer. Their 11-year-old daughter Landry is named after the Dallas Cowboys legendary coach.

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Glenn Davis

Glenn brings a unique background and varied skill set to soccer play by play. First of all, he played the game. He was a College All American before playing professionally from 1993-1998. During his professional career he was a team captain and a League All-Star. Glenn is also a United States Soccer Federation “A” licensed coach and a Regional Olympic Development Coach.

Since 1994, he has been spreading the word about soccer on most every platform that exists. Glenn hosts a weekly radio program devoted to soccer which will soon be on Sirius, writes a twice weekly soccer column in the Houston Chronicle, blogs on soccer at Fox Sports Houston and glenndavissoccer.com and tweets about soccer@GlennDavisSoc. He started in television as an analyst for MLS working for the Dallas Burn, Kansas City Wizards and Tampa Bay Mutiny. He moved over to play by play doing the MLS Soccer Game of the Week on HD Net and has not looked back. He did the 2008 Olympics for NBC and has been asked back to do the 2012 Olympics for them as well as the ConCacaf men’s and Women’s events. He has done the MLS and the World Cup for ESPN. Given his passion and knowledge of the game, Glenn has developed strong working relationships with coaches and players throughout MLS. Having been a player and an analyst, he is able to work with most anyone and draw the best out of them. Recently, the analysts he has worked with include Twellman, Martino and Mustoe.

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Joe Castellano

Joe Castellano currently serves as a reporter for MLB Network and play-by-play announcer for Comcast after spending five years (2005-2010) hosting a Major League Baseball show on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio. Recently, he started his own website: www.thesportsvirus.com and San Francisco Giants podcast: Inside China Basin.

Castellano is a veteran of 12 seasons and over 1,500 games broadcasting professional baseball in the minor leagues including seven years in the AAA International League. He spent six seasons as the Voice of the Rochester Red Wings, then AAA affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles. In 2004, he filled in as a play-by-play announcer for the Toronto Blue Jays.

Castellano’s play-by play credits also include: softball play-by-play for NBC Sports on the 2008 Summer Olympics, baseball play-by-play and reporting at the College World Series on the Westwood One Radio Network (2003-2006, 2009 and 2011), college baseball and water polo for NCAA.com (2011), college baseball, softball and field hockey for College Sports Television (2003, 2005-2007), the World Baseball Classic and Futures Game for XM Satellite Radio (2006-2008), the Junior League World Series on ESPN (2001 & 2002) and Arena Football for the San Jose Sabercats (2005-2007). His sideline reporting assignments include the NFL for CBS Sports (2004) and the AAA All-Star Game for ESPN (1998, 2000 & 2001). During the past 14 years he has covered the NFL as a statistician for CBS Sports.

Castellano’s first baseball play-by-play assignment for Westwood One came in 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. He had the call of the first ever Gold Medal victory for Team USA over Cuba. He also broadcast baseball and softball at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens Greece. Previously, he served as the speed skating announcer at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan for Westwood One. In addition, the network has hired him to call NCAA basketball and work the sidelines as a NFL reporter.

Castellano was the Voice of the Siena Saints men’s basketball team from 1998-2002. During his stint in Albany, N.Y. he broadcast two NCAA tournament games and was recognized by the Albany Times Union as the top radio personality.

Other notable honors include being named the Rochester (NY) Sportscaster of the Year in 2000 and having his play-by-play call of the game-winning home run from the first game in Rockies franchise history (Bend, OR, 1992) placed in the archives at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Additional NCAA credits include television play-by play for Fox Sports on the Swimming and Diving, Gymnastics, Wrestling and Track and Field Big 12 Championships in 2003.

Castellano, 49, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Paul Sunderland Play by Play and Host

Paul began his broadcasting career in 1985 following his eleven year stint as an Olympic athlete, culminating with a Gold Medal at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles in Volleyball. Since that time Sunderland has built one of the most successful and versatile careers in sports broadcasting. Paul worked extensively in his sport and also basketball in the early years. Eventually he was hired by ESPN to cover Pac-10 basketball. Based on that, Paul was subsequently hired by NBC to do a myriad of sports including their coverage of the NBA, WNBA and a variety of Olympic sports.

 

Paul has covered every Summer Games since 1992. Later, Paul expanded his activities to the studio where he served as an anchor of Fox Sports Net’s version of Sports Center. In 2000 he made history by becoming just the second Play x Play announcer in the history of the Los Angeles Lakers. Paul continued in this role until 2005. For his work covering the Lakers, he was twice recognized with Emmy Awards. Since 2005, Paul has returned to covering Pac-10/12 Basketball, Volleyball and Track and Field for Fox Sports Net as well as a multitude of other activities for NBC and Universal Sports.