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Chris Rene Marrou (born November 12, 1947) is former news anchor for KENS 5-TV in San Antonio, Texas from 1973 to 2009. Marrou is known for doing segments where he involved himself in different occupations or tried unique endeavors (such as eating a hot chili pepper). At the end of the broadcast he ran the "Eyewitness Newsreel," for which he ...
Dan Cook. Daniel John Cook Jr. (August 12, 1926 – July 3, 2008) was a sports writer for the San Antonio Express-News for 51 years. [1] He is most notable for making the phrase "the opera ain't over till the fat lady sings" into common use. [2] Described as a "sports icon", [1] Cook started working at KENS in 1956 and continued to work at the ...
Gary DeLaune. Gary DeLaune (June 20, 1933 – February 6, 2022) [1][2] was an American news reporter and sportscaster for KENS -TV 5 in San Antonio, Texas, and reporter for KLIF-AM 1190 in Dallas, Texas. DeLaune, during his time at KLIF, was among the first reporters to announce that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in Dallas; [3 ...
KENS (channel 5) is a television station in San Antonio, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on Fredericksburg Road in northwest San Antonio, near the South Texas Medical Center, while its transmitter is located off US 181 in northwest Wilson County (northeast of Elmendorf).
Bill Schoening. Bill Schoening is an American sportscaster who is currently the radio play-by-play voice of the San Antonio Spurs, a position he has held since the 2001–2002 season. [ 1 ] As of the end of the 2021–2022 NBA season, he has called 2,020 consecutive Spurs games. [ 2 ] Prior to his work with the Spurs, Schoening broadcast for ...
Starting in 1984, the Churchill High School football team would play the Clark High School football team in a rivalry game nicknamed the "Gucci Bowl". [8] The two schools face off every year and the game used to signal the start of the high school football season in San Antonio. [9] The boys' basketball team won the 1982 5A state championship ...
Alamo Stadium. Alamo Stadium is a horseshoe-shaped football and soccer stadium in the Monte Vista Historic District of San Antonio, Texas. Nicknamed "The Rock Pile" due to its primarily limestone construction it was completed in September 1940 as a Works Progress Administration project. The stadium is currently owned and operated by the San ...
San Antonio is also home to minor league professional sports teams in soccer, baseball, and basketball. San Antonio is also occasionally home to international professional sports events. The April 15, 2014 soccer match at the Alamodome between the United States and Mexico sold a record 65,000 tickets, with tickets sold out over two months in ...