April 23, 2001
LAS VEGAS - Longtime Las Vegas broadcaster Tim Neverett has been hired as the play-by-play voice of UNLV football, the school announced Monday.
Neverett, 34, will team with color analyst Tony Cordasco for all 2001 radio broadcasts as well as co-hosting the weekly John Robinson Radio Show.
"This is a great opportunity for me to be associated with a program that has grown so quickly into national prominence," Neverett said. "To be able to work with one of the greatest football coaches off all time in John Robinson is quite an honor and I think I will learn a lot about the game. I look forward to getting started."
Neverett replaced Larry Kahn, who announced Rebel football for one season but decided to devote more time to business interests in his native Southern California.
"We are delighted at Tim's decision to come aboard this season," said Tina Kunzer-Murphy, General Manager of ESPN Regional at UNLV, which oversees all of the school's athletics broadcasting. "We think we'll have a top announcing team up in the booth to cover a team that promises great things down on the field."
Named the 2000 Nevada Sportscaster of the Year by the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters, Neverett most recently was the voice of the Las Vegas Bandits for two years as well as serving as director of broadcasting and communications for the former International Basketball Association franchise.
He previously did play-by-play for the International Hockey League's Las Vegas Thunder (1994-99) and was named the IHL's Broadcaster of the Year in 1998-99. He also served as radio/television announcer for the Las Vegas Sting of the Arena Football League and the Las Vegas Dustdevils of the Continental Indoor Soccer League for two seasons (1993-94). Still a part of the broadcast team for the Las Vegas Stars AAA baseball team, he also broadcast for the Las Vegas Coyotes professional roller hockey team in and is a longtime television anchor for the "High School Game of the Week." A native New Englander, Neverett and his wife, Barbara, have three sons: Matthew, Kyle and Drew.
Cordasco, who also is a national reporter for ESPN Radio, returns for his 13th season involved in Rebel broadcasts. The two-time Nevada Sportscaster of the Year (1994 & '99) is a 1982 graduate of UNLV and is Las Vegas Area Marketing Manager for Red Bull North America.
In addition, Kunzer-Murphy announced that the UNLV men's basketball broadcast team of play-by-play announcer Ken Korach and color analyst Glen Gondrezick will return for the duo's 10th season together calling the Runnin' Rebels.
Also returning to announce UNLV women's basketball will be the Dean of West Coast Broadcasters, Bob Blum, who will call all of the Lady Rebel action for the 15th consecutive season.
"We have a lot of continuity behind the microphone in our men's and women's basketball programs and I think the listeners appreciate that," Kunzer-Murphy said. "I am looking forward to our football announcing team being together for a long time as well."
