Rich Perez

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Perez is a former professional league baseball player turned Sportscaster from Las Vegas, Nevada. He has numerous credits to his career in the publics eye and entertainment world. A Associates graduate of Notre Dame's Mendoza Campus in South Bend, Indiana and Undergraduate at University of Phoenix with a BSB/C in Communications.

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Rich Perez was picked up in the 1982 supplemental MLB draft by the Cinicinnati Reds, In 1983 Perez's rights were traded along with several others to the Houston Astros for highly-regarded Outfielder Cesar Cedeno. Perez spent four years with the Astros, before moving to the Scottsdale Giants, the triple AAA affiliate for the San Francisco Giants.(see: www.thebaseballcube.com)Perez had a short stint in Iowa with the Cubs organization before hanging up his cleats.

A shoulder injury derailed his career so Perez ended up as an assistant to the players with the then NFL Los Angeles Rams. The Rams moved to St. Louis and Perez moved to Indiana and started doing Sports Television in Michigan City, Indiana on Cable Access channel 27 (now 99) in the small community along with former Dallas Mavericks star Sam Hill. This would lead to several other TV and Radio build ups as the show became very successfully watched by the public in the great lakes area. Perez picked up the show and moved it to DCTV in Denver, Colorado where it then became a top rated sports show in a huge market. The show was seen by Fox Executives who took the show to Los Angeles and built it up to the show it is today. Known today as "The Best Damn Sports Show Period"

Rich Perez is the original creator of Fox Sports Best Damn Sports Show Period and has been nominated for 3 cable ace awards prior to the show being aired nationally.

Perez and former NFL Minnesota Vikings great Joey Browner have been a radio team for 8 years now out of Las Vegas and Honolulu. They are also the hosts of the University of Hawaii pre-game show.

Rich Perez has a lot of credits to his name in Hollywood, CA as well (see: www.imdb.com)and has had many brief roles in some big Hollywood releases such as Pirates of the Caribbean series.

Rich Perez was also running the sports radio department for Fucci Metals trader turned CMX CEO A. Demetrius Brown and Eric Brown at Las Vegas based CMX Sports and Entertainement before it's insolvency.

Lastly rich was the 2003-2004 announcer for the Harlem Globetrotters and 2001-2006 NBA summer leagues in Long Beach and Las Vegas.

Rich Perez is a father of 4, 1 boy and 3 girls, the eldest, his son Spent 1 year and half exactly in the US Marine Corps LCpl Richard Perez Jr. before he passed in "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in Iraq February 11, 2005 at the age of 19 in a controversial incident within days of going home to Las Vegas, NV.