Rich Herrera is a nationally known sports radio personality. Herrera is the only radio announcer in

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or the NFL of Mexican–American Heritage without a playing background. He was the first nationally syndicated

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sports radio personality in the United States working first at Sports Fan Radio, and later at

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Early life

Herrera attended

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where he was a member of

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fraternity.

Career

Rich previously worked with the

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as their post-game show host from 1998 to 2000 and spent two years (1996–97) hosting the post-game talk shows for the

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and the

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. He was one of the original hosts of Fox Sports Radio when the network launched in 2000. Herrera served as the host during pre- and post-game shows for the

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Baseball Radio Network from 2005 to 2011. Herrera was the featured play-by-play announcer on raysbaseball.com for the team's spring training games and filled in during the regular season. He served as the Rays Director of Radio Operations, running the team's statewide radio network. He joined Tampa Bay after working at

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, where he was a national talk show host for

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. His national radio experience included radio shows for SportsFan Radio (LA/Las Vegas/NY) Prime Sports Radio (Dallas) and

. Herrea partnered with former NFL All Pro and Notre Dame All American

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for national radio shows. As of 2011 Herrera was a member of the Sports USA Radio Football crew. He began working as a sideline reporter for their nationally syndicated NFL and

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broadcasts in 2003. His baseball play-by-play experience included The

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of the PCL, The

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of the

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, the

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games as well as the Rays. Herrera also hosted the weekly radio show "This Week in Rays Baseball", heard each Saturday during the season on the teams flagship station 620 WDAE in Tampa. Herrera was a columnist for the

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. Since August 2012, Rich has worked as a sports talk show host with "98.7 The Fan", WHFS-FM. He hosts the evening program, "Out of Bounds" from 7PM-10PM Eastern. In October 2020, Rich returned to

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Tucson, AZ to serve as programing director and local afternoon-drive host.

Volunteer

Herrera's charity work includes The Children's Dream Fund and

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. He serves on the board of directors of the Heart Gallery.

References

External links

Sports USA Radio Network
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