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Bill Worrell
Biography

Bill Worrell started his education at UH in 1964 where he played baseball for the school. Worrell was a pitcher on the last Cougar baseball team to make it to the College World Series in 1968.

Bill Worrell is a distinguished alumnus of the School of Communication and the University of Houston. Worrell began his broadcasting career with campus radio station KUHF. About the time of his graduation, Worrelll was hired at KPRC Channel 2. Soon he was on air co-anchoring the evening news. After he got the evening news job with Channel 2, Worrell chose to go in a new direction. Since he had a good understanding of sports, he chose to take on the task of sports director for the station in 1974.

In 1980, Worrell started working for then start-up cable network ESPN. In 1983, he began his career with the start-up station Home Sports Entertainment and still holds a job there today. Since then, the station has gone through a couple of changes as it became Prime Sports and Fox Sports Southwest and Comcast Houston and Root Sports.

Worrell first started working for the Rockets in the early '80s, as he wanted to get some experience doing play-by-play. In 1983, he applied to the Rockets' then General Manager Ray Patterson for the position of everyday play-by-play announcer. He was offered the position and since then has called almost every game the Rockets have played.

Astros years

Known for over 20 years as the television voice of the NBA Houston Rockets, the former KPRC-TV sports anchor's career changed when he was signed to launch Home Sports Entertainment, a fledgling cable sports channel in the early 1980s. When the Astros became part of the cable channel's package in 1984, the former University of Houston pitcher became a jack-of-all-trades on Astros home telecasts, doing everything from hosting to color commentary to play-by-play. He was an Astros announcer until 2005.

Nicknames

Worrell is well known for the nicknames he gives players. Notable nicknames include:

Chuck "Chuckwagon" Hayes

Donatas "3Mo" Motiejunas

Chase "Hey Bud Let's Party" Budinger