Bill Worrell has hosted and broadcast a wide variety of other major sporting events over his four decades in sports media.
15 Facts About Bill Worrell
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Bill Worrell's father, William Hamilton "Dub" Worrell, was a team dentist for the Rice Owls, Houston Cougars, Houston Oilers, and the Houston Rockets; Bill Worrell Sr.
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Bill Worrell matriculated at the University of Houston in 1964, where he originally hoped to follow his father into dentistry.
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Bill Worrell ultimately chose to major in communications while in his sophomore year at the University of Houston.
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Bill Worrell had a talent for public speaking, and this became clear in his first on-air broadcasting job with UH campus radio station KUHF.
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An avid, lifelong sports fan, Bill Worrell eventually transitioned from hard news into full-time sports broadcasting.
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Bill Worrell left KPRC to take an on-air job with the new cable sports network ESPN in 1980.
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Bill Worrell stayed with ESPN for three years before joining regional cable network startup Home Sports Entertainment in 1983 as a full-time play-by-play announcer for Rockets telecasts.
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Since then, Bill Worrell has broadcast most Rockets' games for local television, a period spanning 35 years.
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Bill Worrell has called the most notable seasons in franchise history, especially the team's consecutive championship seasons in 1994 and 1995.
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Bill Worrell is widely recognized as the television voice of Houston Rockets basketball.
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Bill Worrell has broadcast a variety of other sports, most notably local television broadcasts of Houston Astros baseball.
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Bill Worrell served as the color analyst for broadcasts of Astros games on Home Sports Entertainment and Fox Sports Net for 20 seasons, from 1985 to 2004.
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Bill Worrell's departure from Astros telecasts was an amicable one, as it allowed him to focus his efforts on covering Houston Rockets basketball.
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Bill Worrell has broadcast various other sports, including Houston Oilers football, pro rodeo, table tennis, and major sporting events as varied as the Kentucky Derby and the Super Bowl.