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Robert Nathan Fai (born January 25, 1974 - Age 40) is a broadcaster for the Vancouver Canadians Baseball Club of the Northwest League of professional baseball. The Vancouver Canadians are a Minor League Baseball affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball.

Vancouver Canadians Baseball is heard each summer throughout British Columbia, Canada on TSN1040 Sports Radio as well as TSN1410 Sports Radio. Fai hosts an hour long pre-game show as well as a weekly talk show in addition to being the play-by-play voice of the Vancouver Canadians.

Career:

Rob Fai began his broadcast career with Shaw Cable as reporter and host of Insport, a weekly sports television show seen across the Lower Mainland on community TV. Along with co-hosts Dawn Bensmiller, Kevin Kady, Steve Erickson, Daved Benefield, Kate Gadosik and Trevor Miller, Fai would provide news and insight into the Vancouver sports scene. His coverage included the Vancouver Canucks, Grizzlies, 86ers (nee: Whitecaps) and B.C. Lions as well as a wide variety of collegiate sports.

Fai would eventually move into radio as reporter with The Sports Zone, heard daily on CKST1040 AM with host Bob Marjanovich.

Upon Marjanovich moving to Mojo AM 730 Sports Radio (2002), Fai along with Eric Stansfield would move to the studios on Georgia Street to continue providing sports news on-air.

Fai would uproot his life in 2004 and head up the coast and into Powell River where he would become morning host of CHQB 1280AM and eventually add Station Manager to his resume shortly after the retirement of longtime manager Bob McGinnis.

In 2005, Fai would return to Vancouver as a reporter with CKWX News1130 AM and eventually move into the station's sports department working alongside Garry Raible, Dave Cherniwchan, Scott Russell, Paul Weisser and Jason Benner.

Fai would leave 'WX in the spring of 2007 to take a position as Director, Media Relations with the Vancouver Canadians Baseball Club and also assume the play-by-play duties for the franchise.

In 2011, Fai was brought on by Electronic Arts (EA Sports) to help with the voice acting on NHL '11. Since 2011, Fai has been heard on five (5) consecutive editions of the popular video game that is available on PlayStation, XBox and most gaming systems.

Personal:

Rob Fai lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with his wife and two children.

Fai graduated from Lester B. Pearson Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario and attended Grace College (Winona Lake, Indiana) and Capilano College (North Vancouver, B.C.).

As a volunteer basketball coach at both Balmoral Junior Secondary School and Carson Graham Secondary School (North Vancouver, B.C.), Fai spent time as coach of the juvenile, junior and senior girls basketball teams (1998-2003).

Additional:

Fai currently studies in the martial arts and is a public speaker and master of ceremonies at various events across British Columbia.