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Chris Fowler is a sports Broadcaster for ESPN known best for his work on College GameDay for college football. Since 1989 , Fowler has been the primary studio host for college football and men's college basketball on ESPN. He started anchoring College GameDay in 1990 and then expanded to ESPN's other Saturday college football segments in 1991 . Fowler has also worked with ESPN's Summer X Games since 1995 and the Winter X Games since 1998 as well as occasional Tennis and Horse Racing broadcasts on ESPN. Fowler joined ESPN in July 1986 as the host/reporter of Scholastic Sports America, a stint which lasted two years. In 1988, he began serving as a college football sideline reporter for two seasons. While on the college football beat, Fowler conducted an exclusive interview with former star Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson, who was in prison at the time on drug charges. Prior to joining ESPN, Fowler spent nearly two years at KCNC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Denver, as a production assistant, a producer/writer and as a sports reporter. In 1984, he worked for several months at Denver's CBS affiliate KMGH-TV as an intern in the sports department. Chris Fowler graduated from the University Of Colorado in 1985 with a Bachelor Of Science degree. He was the first recipient of the Alan Berg Memorial Journalism Scholarship, awarded by the Denver Press Club. While an undergraduate, Fowler, a Denver-area native, served as a producer and co-host for a weekly magazine program aired over the Boulder (Colo.) Cable Television System from 1983-85. He also spent two years as sports director at KAIR-AM, the university's radio station. From 1982-84, he covered high school sports for the Rocky Mountain News. |
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