Chris Marlowe is an American sportscaster based in Denver, Colorado. A sportscaster is an announcer on radio or television who specializes in reporting or commenting on sports events. ... Nickname: The Mile-High City Location of Denver in Colorado Coordinates: Country United States State Colorado City-County Denver (coextensive) Founded November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area    - City 401. ...

Marlowe is currently the play-by-play announcer for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). All of the telecasts are shown on the Altitude Sports and Entertainment network. Play-by-play, in broadcasting, is a North American term and means the reporting of a sporting event with a voiceover describing the details of the action of the game in progress. ... The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. ... The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the worlds premier mens professional basketball league and one of the four major professional sports leagues of North America. ... Category: ...

Before joining the Nuggets in 2004, Marlowe spent over a decade at NBC, covering the NBA, beach volleyball, and various Olympic sports. Along with assignments for Fox Sports Net, Marlowe was the announcer for every Association of Volleyball Professionals event in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was also an occasional anchor on the Southern California Sports Report. NBC Sports logo NBC Sports is a division of NBC, responsible for the televising of many sports events on the network. ... A beach volleyball game in progress Beach volleyball in Vancouver Beach volleyball has evolved from the popular social games of volleyball played on many beaches around the world. ... Olympics redirects here. ... Fox Sports Net headquarters in Los Angeles. ... AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) was founded in 1983 to cater to the sport of beach Volleyball, its players and fans. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ...

Marlowe was also a play-by-play announcer on the only season of XFL football in 2001. He called the games that were shown on UPN. The XFL was a professional American football league that played for one season in 2001. ... UPN (which originally stood for the United Paramount Network) was a television network in over 200 markets in the United States. ...

He began as a two-sport standout at Pacific Palisades High School in Los Angeles, California. Marlowe went on to play basketball and volleyball at San Diego State University (SDSU) and was the starting setter on SDSU's only NCAA Championship team – the 1973 men's volleyball team (see SDSU Aztecs article). In 1976 and 1978, he was voted the Most Valuable Player by USA Volleyball. On the beach, Marlowe won eight tournaments, including the 1977 World Championship and two prestigious Manhattan Beach Opens. Marlowe's athletic career culminated as captain of the gold medal-winning United States Olympic Volleyball team in 1984. San Diego State University athletics http://www. ... The SDSU Aztecs are the collegiate athletics and sports teams for San Diego State University (SDSU). ...

The athletic honors continued with his induction into both the San Diego State Aztec Hall of Fame and the California Beach Volleyball Hall of Fame in 1994.

See also

• SDSU Aztecs
• USA Volleyball