August 2004

KEVIN HARLAN
(CBS Sports Broadcaster)

Kevin Harlan joined the CBS Television Network's NFL broadcast team as a play-by-play announcer in 1998, after having served in the same capacity for Fox Sports since 1994. He called the Network's HDTV coverage of the 2001 AFC Championship and Super Bowl XXXV. He also has called CBS Sports' coverage of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship since 1999 and called the 2003 and 2004 NCAA Final Four and Championship game for CBS Radio Network and Westwood One.

Harlan, a veteran football and basketball broadcaster, has called play-by-play for Turner Sports' coverage of the NBA Playoffs since 1996. He has called regular-season action for TNT and TBS since the 1997-98 season and has served as play-by-play announcer for TBS's coverage of the 1998 Goodwill Games and several college football bowl games. For the past six years, Harlan has covered NFL pre-season games for the Chicago Bears on WBBM-TV. He began broadcasting the Green Bay Packers' pre-season games in 2003.

He was the voice of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves for nine seasons on KFAN-AM Radio and KARE-TV. He has called NFL action for NBC Sports and college football and basketball for ESPN, as well as college football, basketball and championship boxing for the Mutual Broadcasting System.

Harlan landed his first job, as the radio and television voice of the NBA's Kansas City Kings, at the age of 22. He called basketball broadcasts for the University of Kansas Basketball Network (1983-84) and also spent nine seasons (1985-93) as the voice of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs. In addition, he provided radio play-by-play for the University of Missouri Football and Basketball Network (1986-89).

Harlan was born June 21, 1960, in Milwaukee and raised in Green Bay, Wis. He was graduated from the University of Kansas in 1982 with a degree in broadcast journalism. He and his wife, Ann, live in Mission Hills, Kan., with their four children.

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