Chris Fowler
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Chris Fowler (born August 23, 1962) 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 from 1995-2000 and the Winter X Games from 1998-2000 as well as occasional tennis and horse racing broadcasts, including the Breeders Cup World Thoroughbred Championship on ESPN and the Belmont Stakes on ABC, both as of 2006. He has also covered NASCAR races for SportsCenter and will be one of two studio hosts for its NASCAR coverage, beginning in 2007, along with Brent Musburger.
Fowler has also been a play-by-play telecaster for the Australian Open.
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 University of 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, then 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 KMGH-TV in the same city as an intern in the sports department.
A graduate of the University of Colorado in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree, Fowler 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 a cable television system in Boulder, Colorado 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.
