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Roger Claude Twibell is an Americansportscaster, who most recently calledArkansas State Red Wolves football broadcasts onESPN+ in 2018.[1]
He has worked atABC,ESPN,CBS Sports Network and theBig Ten Network. He also works on pre-season games for theKansas City Chiefs.
In 2019, he served as a commentator for the international broadcast of theMasters Tournament.[2]
Twibell's television career began as a sportscaster atKGUN-TV in Tucson, Ariz. In 1973, he moved toKATU-TV in Portland, Oregon, where he worked the sports desk and did play-by-play for Oregon State football and basketball. He also broadcast local hockey, and track and field.
Twibell moved to Dallas’KDFW-TV in 1975 before going to Miami'sWTVJ-TV the following year, where he did nightly sportscasts and Dolphins’ preseason andFort Lauderdale Strikers play-by-play.
In 1978, he joined Boston'sWBZ-TV, handling nightly sportscasts and play-by-play of theBoston Celtics. He also didNew England Patriots preseason games, theBoston Marathon andNew England Teamen soccer games. Twibell also hosted a weekly in-season Patriots show.
In his three years at WBZ-TV, Twibell was voted the best play-by-play announcer in New England by the Associated Press, won a New England Emmy for play-by-play and received Syracuse University's Phillips Award as the best nightly sportscaster.
He also worked as the host ofThe Morning Drive with Roger Twibell with Jeff McCarragher and as host of the610 Morning Rush with Josh Klingler onKCSP 610 Kansas City from January 4, 2008, till January 1, 2010. He was replaced by "Bulldog"Bob Fescoe, who had been onKFNS,WHB andKMBZ.
Twibell attended theUniversity of Arizona to play football and baseball, but after suffering career-ending knee injuries, he transferred to theUniversity of Kansas where he graduated in 1972.
A native ofShawnee Mission, Kansas, Twibell lives with his three children Taylor, Conor, and Morgan.