Wichita State (Undergraduate) University of Kansas (Masters)
Title
Sportscaster
Spouse
Linda Bender
Children
2, including Trey
Relatives
Landry Bender (granddaughter)
Gary Nedrow Bender (born September 1, 1940) [1] is a retired American sportscaster and 2008 inductee into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. He officially retired, April 13, 2011,[2][3] from Fox Sports Arizona after 18 years calling the NBA's Phoenix Suns games.
Gary Bender has also worked as a play by play man for the NBA on TNT mainly during the NBA Playoffs.
^"Kansas Sports Hall of Fame (KSHOF)". Archived from the original on 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
^Young, Bob (28 March 2011). "Suns broadcaster Gary Bender announces retirement". azcentral.com. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
^Dougherty, Pete (29 March 2011). "Longtime network announcer Bender retires from broadcasting". timesunion.com. Hearst Communications Inc. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
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named a backup play-by-play announcer (behind Al Michaels and replacing GaryBender in this particular capacity) for ABC's coverage of Thursday Night Baseball...
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broadcast Game 4 of the championship series live on May 25. CBS used GaryBender and Kyle Rote Jr. on commentary. By 1990, CBS would televise the final...
role covering the 1988 American League Championship Series (alongside GaryBender and Joe Morgan) for ABC. Jackson appeared in the film The Naked Gun:...
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announcers, such as Bob Costas, Vin Scully, Dick Stockton, Frank Glieber, and GaryBender. The team of Madden and Summerall would go on to call eight Super Bowls...
EST Game attendance: 49,079 Game weather: 63 °F (17 °C); wind 7 mph (11 km/h) Referee: Gordon McCarter TV announcers (CBS): GaryBender and John Madden...
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