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For Jeff Kingery, broadcasting Rockies games is a dream come true.
Since age 15, his goal was to call the action for a Major League team. A rare Dodgers fan growing up in San Francisco, Kingery caught the broadcasting bug listening to Vin Scully describe the exploits of Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. Jeff came to Colorado and KOA to broadcast the Denver Bears' Triple-A games in 1981. This is his 16th season behind the mike for the Rockies.
Before joining the Rockies' broadcast team, he was the voice of the NBA's Denver Nuggets for 11 seasons from 1981-1992. The Nuggets went to the playoffs nine times during that time span, including an appearance in the 1985 Western Conference Finals vs. Los Angeles. Kingery is active in the community and has worked with the Denver Dumb Friends League, the IBM Homeruns for Youth Program, Easter Seals, Recording for the Blind and the Colorado Rockies Foundation. He enjoys playing guitar.
Jeff and his wife Meryl live in Englewood with their dogs Marlowe and Carmen.
Corrigan came to Colorado after 17 years in the Cleveland Indians television booth from 1985-2001. His 17 years of broadcasting Tribe games on TV was the longest tenure among television announcers in Indians history.
In the summer of 2005, Jack published his first novel, Warning Track, a book about an aging baseball player dealing with the lure and repercussions of supplement use. He hopes to publish a second novel, based on an incident during World War II, sometime in the summer of 2008. In addition to his work in baseball, Corrigan was involved from 1982-88 with play-by-play and color commentary for the Cleveland Cavaliers telecasts and the MISL Cleveland Force. Beginning in 1989, he was the "television voice" for college football and basketball games for the ACC, Mid-American Conference and Patriot League.
Corrigan was behind the mike for what is considered to be one of the greatest basketball games in ACC history, a double overtime affair between North Carolina and Duke on March 3, 1984. The Tar Heels won the contest 96-83 in what was Michael Jordan's final appearance in Chapel Hill.
A native Clevelander, Jack is a graduate of St. Ignatius High School and Cornell University, where he played football for four seasons. He also has a master's degree in Speech from Kent State University. During the off-seasons, Jack coached football at St. Ignatius, the nine-time Ohio state champions and three-time national champs. The past five offseasons, he has assisted with the football program at Regis Jesuit High School in Denver.
Jack and his wife, Lisa, have two children, Megan, a graduate of Mercyhurst College now in management with Starbucks in Denver, and Mike, a Loyola Marymount University graduate in Los Angeles where he now works for PMK, a public relations firm. Jack serves on the Board of Directors for Boys Hope/Girls Hope, a privately funded, non-profit, organization that helps at-risk children.
Drew Goodman, one of the most versatile broadcasters in sports, is in his seventh season calling Colorado Rockies games for FSN Rocky Mountain and KTVD. He is one of two original employees of FSN Rocky Mountain, joining the Denver-based regional sports network in 1988.
For 10 years (1994-2004), Goodman was the play-by-play announcer for Denver Nuggets telecasts on FSN Rocky Mountain and local over-the-air stations. From 2002 through 2004, he was one of few sportscasters to regularly call action for telecasts of two professional teams in the same year, annually logging more than 190 games between the Colorado Rockies and Denver Nuggets.
This year, he'll call games in Major-League baseball, University of Colorado men's basketball, various network live events, and ancillary programming. In addition, Goodman hosts FSN's Spotlight series.
In 2007, he earned his fifth Colorado Sportscaster of the Year honor by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. He also earned the award four years in a row from 2002 to 2005.
Prior to becoming the Rockies play-by-play voice in 2002, Goodman worked select Major-League baseball national telecasts for FSN and hosted Rockies Weekly with Buddy Bell and Colorado Rockies Pregame Report.
Goodman's work in football has been extensive, including stints working the NFL with NBC in 1993 and occasional games on FOX Sports since 2000. In addition to the NFL and Big 12 Conference football, he's worked ACC, Mountain West Conference (CSU) and WAC football games. For two seasons (2000-2002) he called play-by-play for Denver Broncos preseason games on the Broncos radio network, and for five seasons in the mid-'90s he hosted the postgame report following Denver Broncos on KOA.
He added the NHL to his resume in 1996 when he started hosting the Avalanche Pregame Report for FSN Rocky Mountain, an assignment he held for six years until picking up the Rockies play-by-play assignment.
Not limiting his talents to the four major team sports, Goodman called tennis action for Prime Sports' (now Fox Sports Net) initial year of ATP tour coverage in 1990, and for three year he called the Annual MS Tennis Classic in Denver. In the fall of 1993, he called the play-by-play for the first-ever ATP tennis event - the Beijing Open - in Mainland China for worldwide distribution on Prime International. For eight years, Goodman covered men's and women's World Cup and pro ski racing as well as college baseball for ESPN and has also been involved with the coverage of track and field, gymnastics, wrestling and golf.
Goodman has taken his skills and applied them to studio shows, hosting numerous programs during his tenure with FSN, including the Denver Nuggets Coaches Show, The Big 12 Gridiron Report, the Big Ten Reports, WAC Magazine and Golf Colorado.
A native of New York, Goodman received his bachelor's degree in communications from Ithaca College in 1985. He and his wife, Kristi, are actively involved in Colorado Youth at Risk, an organization that helps re-direct the lives of troubled teens. Their most important endeavor is raising the Rockies future outfield -- Jacob (5/12/98), Zachary (6/5/00) and Gabriel (3/12/03).
Former Major League relief pitcher George Frazier is celebrating his 11th season as the Rockies analyst for FSN Rocky Mountain and games the network produces for KTVD. He is the only analyst to work Rockies television games on a regular basis since FSN acquired the rights at the conclusion of the 1997 season. Frazier teams up with play-by-play man Drew Goodman for the seventh consecutive season in 2008.
Prior to joining the Rockies, Frazier provided commentary for Home Sports Entertainment, the Baseball Network, ESPN and Minnesota Twins regional game telecasts. His broadcasting career started in 1988 when Frazier called Big Eight men's and women's basketball games for five seasons on Prime Sports Network. During that time span, he also handled sideline reporting duties for Tulsa Football games on TV. Over the years Frazier has worked major league baseball games for national telecasts on Fox Family and FOX Sports.
Frazier, 52, pitched 10 seasons in the big leagues from 1978 to 1987. He started his career with St. Louis, then moved on to the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs (NL) and finished his career with the Minnesota Twins. He went 35-43 in 415 games with a 4.20 ERA and 29 saves. He made trips to the World Series with both the Yankees ('81) and the Twins ('87), earning a world championship ring in his final year as a player.
Frazier was born in Oklahoma City and earned all-state honors in baseball at Hillcrest High School in Springfield, Mo., going 7-0 with a 0.14 ERA during his senior season. He then played collegiate baseball at the University of Oklahoma, leading the Sooners to four consecutive trips to the College World Series. In 1976, Milwaukee selected him in the ninth round of the draft.
George, his wife Kay, and children, Matthew (27), Brian (25), Parker (19), and Georgia (15), reside in Tulsa, Okla. They also have three grandchildren, Bryce (3) and Easton (2) and Cooper (1).
In 2006, Jeff Huson embarked on a new career in baseball, serving as analyst for Colorado Rockies coverage on FSN Rocky Mountain and KTVD. He will once again split analyst duties in the booth with veteran analyst George Frazier, calling 50 games alongside play-by-play man Drew Goodman. When not working in the booth, Huson's insights to the game came in handy in the studio for the FSN Live Pregame Report and Postgame Report for the Rockies.
The former University of Wyoming baseball star played 15 years in professional baseball, 12 years as a utility player with the Montreal Expos, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles, Milwaukee Brewers, Seattle Mariners, Anaheim Angels and Chicago Cubs. He most recently served as a roving infield instructor with the Chicago Cubs minor league organization working with Major-League prospects from the AAA level to the Dominican Republic League from 2001 to 2005.
A native of Sedona, Arizona, Huson and his family have resided in Parker, Colo., over the past 11 years. He played shortstop at Wyoming in 1984 and '85 after transferring from Glendale (Ariz.) Community College. In his junior year at UW, Huson played 53 games and batted .392 with 30 RBI. His senior year, Huson played 44 games for the Cowboys and batted .399 with 35 RBI. He was an All-Western Athletic Conference selection both years.
Huson's MLB career began in 1985 when the Montreal Expos signed him as an amateur free agent. Over his pro career, Huson played 827 games at a variety of positions - third base, shortstop, second base, first base and in the outfield. He was the ultimate utility player, posting a career batting average of .234 and a fielding average of .969. Jeff and his wife, Wendy, are both graduates of the University of Wyoming. They have three children: Lindsay (19), Kyle (16) and Cody (12).
Tony Guevara, the Spanish Voice of the Rockies, was born in Guanajuato, Mexico. He is a 1983 graduate of Santa Ana (Calif.) High School, where he played baseball. He has worked in radio since 1990, as both a disc jockey and in sales. Guevara became play-by-play announcer Rockies games on KCUV 1150 AM from 1995 to 1999, and returned to Rockies broadcasts on 1090 AM in 2003. In 2007, JOSE 1090 AM will broadcast home games, with the exception of weekday day games.
Guevara and his wife, Linda, have two children, Andy and Crystal and reside in Thornton, Colo.
