Christopher Patrick Myers (born March 28, 1959) is an American
sportscaster. A native of Miami, FL with more than 30 years in
broadcasting, he has covered the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA
Finals, the NCAA Final Four, The Masters and the U.S. Open (golf), the
Triple Crown, the Olympics and the Daytona 500.Chris Myers broke into
broadcasting as a 16-year-old high school student when he hosted his
own show on Miami’s WKAT radio, interviewing such sports figures as
Muhammad Ali and Don Shula. He graduated from Chaminade High School,
followed by Miami Dade Community College and Florida International
University. In the 1980s, Myers hosted a sports radio call-in show on
WIOD-AM in Miami before moving to New Orleans to work for broadcast
station WWL.Myers spent ten years (1988-1998) at ESPN, hosting
SportsCenter, Baseball Tonight and other shows. He received an Emmy
for the interview program Up Close, on which he was the first to
conduct live interviews with O.J. Simpson after both his murder trial
and wrongful death civil lawsuit.Myers earned acclaim for his live
reporting during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake that took place
during the World Series. He was the only on-scene reporter who stayed
on the air through the night broadcasting from Atlanta during the
Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
sportscaster. A native of Miami, FL with more than 30 years in
broadcasting, he has covered the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA
Finals, the NCAA Final Four, The Masters and the U.S. Open (golf), the
Triple Crown, the Olympics and the Daytona 500.Chris Myers broke into
broadcasting as a 16-year-old high school student when he hosted his
own show on Miami’s WKAT radio, interviewing such sports figures as
Muhammad Ali and Don Shula. He graduated from Chaminade High School,
followed by Miami Dade Community College and Florida International
University. In the 1980s, Myers hosted a sports radio call-in show on
WIOD-AM in Miami before moving to New Orleans to work for broadcast
station WWL.Myers spent ten years (1988-1998) at ESPN, hosting
SportsCenter, Baseball Tonight and other shows. He received an Emmy
for the interview program Up Close, on which he was the first to
conduct live interviews with O.J. Simpson after both his murder trial
and wrongful death civil lawsuit.Myers earned acclaim for his live
reporting during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake that took place
during the World Series. He was the only on-scene reporter who stayed
on the air through the night broadcasting from Atlanta during the
Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
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