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Kenny Rice is one of the country's most versatile sports announcers. He worked his first Olympics for NBC in 2004 in Athens as the boxing reporter and also worked the 2008 Olympics as play-by-play for the equestrian competition, in addition to play-by-play for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Triathlon Trials on NBC. In 2008 he also did play-by-play for NBC Universal Sports coverage of basketball, track and field and rugby for the Paralympic Games. He has done play-by-play and reporting on 16 different sports, and counting.
In 1996, Rice won an Eclipse Award for outstanding local TV coverage of thoroughbred racing. For the past two years he has been host of horseracing's biggest night of honor, The Eclipse Awards following in the large footsteps of film and TV star John Forsythe.
He could be the only sportscaster to have interviewed such a diverse and distinguished list of sports figures as Michael Jordan, Peyton Manning, John Wooden, Randy Couture, Ryder Cup Captain Paul Azinger, Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis, Denver Nuggets' executive Rex Chapman, rodeo legend Ty Murray, Basketball Hall of Fame's Dan Issel, Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, and Dallas Cowboys' Terrell Owens all in the same year.
Rice has been with HDNet since 2003 doing play-by-play for college football and basketball including the Harvard-Yale game and the Wooden Classic. He has also called boxing and hosted horse racing telecasts. Since 2006 he has called Mixed Martial Arts for HDNet Fights and been host, along with Bas Rutten, of Inside MMA since its inception in 2007.
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