Gary Bender
| Gary Bender | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Gary Nedrow Bender September 1, 1940 Norton, Kansas |
| Education |
Wichita State (Undergraduate) University of Kansas (Masters) |
| Title | Sportscaster |
| Spouse(s) | Linda |
| Children | Trey and Brett |
Gary Nedrow Bender (born September 1, 1940) is a retired American sportscaster and 2008 inductee into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. He officially retired, April 13, 2011, from Fox Sports Arizona network after 18 years calling the NBA's Phoenix Suns games.
Bender, who was born in Norton, Kansas, and raised in a nearby town of Ulysses, Kansas, graduated from Ulysses High School in 1958. He then attended Wichita State University, graduating with a journalism degree in 1962 and a master's degree from the University of Kansas in 1964. Bender then began his broadcasting career calling games at Hutchinson Community College in Hutchinson, KS and then went on to do the same at the University of Kansas' football and basketball programs in the 1960s. He also spent years as a broadcaster in Wisconsin and called all of the Wisconsin Athletic Association championship games, as well as Green Bay Packers radio and Milwaukee Brewers television in the early 1970s.
He did play-by-play for the NFL on CBS from 1975 to 1981, and again in 1986 (among his partners were Johnny Unitas, Sonny Jurgensen, Hank Stram, and John Madden, all members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame) and the 1981 NBA Finals along with color commentators Rick Barry and Bill Russell, both members of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
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