Kevin Newberry
Kevin Newberry has 23 years of experience
as a reporter for three major daily newspapers, as a corporate
communications manager and as a book and magazine publisher.
For 14 years, Newberry was an award-winning sports writer
for The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and
The Houston Post. He covered three World Series, two
Super Bowls, and pro baseball and pro golf for six years.
He covered victories by Fred Couples, Ian Woosnam and Bernhard
Langer at The Masters, U.S. Open victories by Payne Stewart,
Tom Kite and Lee Janzen, and PGA Championships by John Daly,
Nick Price and Paul Azinger. He was also on hand when Nolan
Ryan registered his 300th victory, his 5,000th strikeout,
and when he threw the final pitch of his illustrious Hall
of Fame career. He also created the concept and became publisher
of the Shell Golf Guide, the “bible”
for golf in some of the nation's largest markets. His company
published nine books in Houston, Austin-San Antonio, Dallas-Fort
Worth and Las Vegas. A compilation of his work was then rolled
up into a coffee table book, Texas Golf: The Best of the
Lone Star State. He also published Houston Sports
& Fitness, a monthly publication geared toward amateur
athletes who compete in participation sports that are rarely
covered by the major media. After two years, he sold the magazine
to another publisher. For the past six years, Newberry won
numerous awards as corporate communications manager for EOG
Resources, Inc., one of the largest independent oil and gas
companies in the United States. Kevin grew up playing golf
in Dallas with his father and three brothers. He graduated
from Southern Methodist University with a bachelor’s
degree in Communications. While he attended SMU on a variety
of journalism scholarships, he walked on to the SMU golf team
in 1984 when it reinstated its golf program after a five-year
hiatus. Kevin still plays about eight rounds a month and plays
to a 7 handicap. |
Kenny Hand
Kenny Hand, a native Texan, has been an award-winning
Houston sports media fixture for 28 years. For 18 years, he
was a baseball writer (1977-85) and then columnist (1985-95)
at The Houston Post. One of the more memorable experiences
in both Kevin and Kenny's career was in 1989, when they were
covering the World Series between the Oakland A's and San
Francisco Giants when a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the
San Francisco Bay Area. For a few days, both reporters faced
the challenge of providing news coverage on one of the worst
natural disasters in U.S. history. Kenny co-hosted or hosted
sports talk radio shows at three stations in Houston (KPRC,
KILT and KTRH). For 13 consecutive years he has been a panelist
on Channel 13's Extra Points sports show on Saturday evenings.
He also did numerous sports documentaries for Texas Cable
News, including features on Nolan Ryan, Don Meredith, Roger
Clemens and Mary Lou Retton. Now a freelance writer and broadcaster,
Kenny writes a monthly men’s column for Houston
Woman Magazine and has his own sports website, houstonsportsoffhand.com,
an outlet for streaming audio interviews with sports celebrities,
and written commentary. Born in Dallas and a graduate of University
of Texas-Arlington, Hand worked at the Dallas Times Herald
for the legendary Blackie Sherrod. Kenny is a long-time member
of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and the Cotton Bowl Hall
of Fame selection committees. Kenny plays golf four times
a month and plays to a 15 handicap. |
