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All games and shows can be heard on Classic Hits 1700 KVNS, classic1700.com and through the iHeartRadio app with pre-game coverage beginning 30 minutes before scheduled tip-off. Vipers basketball broadcasts are presented by Cardenas Auto Group. Make sure you tune-in for the Butt Wild Sports Bar post-game show after the game as well!

Alex Del Barrio

Alex Del Barrio has been the play-by-play broadcaster for the Vipers since the first game in franchise history (November 2007). He called nearly every game for the first three seasons before reducing his schedule to only home games during the 2010-11 season due to his responsibilities as the Sports Information Director at the University of Texas-Pan American. He was also the Vipers Director of Basketball Operations during the 2009-10 season.

Alex began broadcasting games at WTBU, the student-radio station at Boston University. There he was a part of broadcasts of soccer, hockey, basketball, lacrosse and softball. From there he joined the Edinburg Roadrunners as the Director of Media Relations and Broadcasting, working there from 2004-through-2007. He then became the sports director at Fox 2 News while broadcasting Vipers games before joining the team full time. Alex also contributed to broadcasts of the Rio Grande Valley Dorados and TV broadcasts of the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees.

A native of Mission, Alex is a graduate of the UTPA.

Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg began contributing to Vipers broadcasts as the home color commentator in February 2008. At the time, Goldberg was also serving as the voice of the UTPA basketball and baseball teams and only worked Vipers games that did not conflict. For then 2008-09 season, Jonah made the Vipers his primary commitment, allowing him to offer analysis for all home games. During the 2009-10 season, he not only reprised that role, but serve as the studio host for road games as well. Jonah was promoted to road play-by-play broadcaster the for the 2010-11 season and the host of the Vipers radio show, Inside the Vipers Nest, presented by Idea Public Schools. He is also the Vipers' Director of Communications, handling the team's public and media relations as well as the website.

Jonah has also carved a niche covering Valley sports, spending the last five off-seasons as the voice of the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings, with whom he earned recognition as a 2010 Co-United League Baseball Broadcaster of the Year and the 2009 United League Baseball Broadcaster and Communications Executive of the Year. Goldberg is also a two-time (2009 and 2010) San Angelo Standard Times United League All-Star Broadcaster. Goldberg offered color commentary during Killer Bees home broadcasts for the 2008-09 season, and he served as a sideline reporter for the Dorados for two seasons.

Jonah grew up in Merrick, New York and graduated from Boston University's College of Communication in May 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism. He was on the broadcast journalism track and also had a concentration in political science. Jonah spent four years working at WTBU, where he joined the sports staff and became Sports Director for his final year. Jonah served as the voice of WTBU's flagship coverage of BU women's basketball from 2005-07 and called games for eight different BU sports (men's & women's soccer, basketball and ice hockey in addition to women's lacrosse and softball). Jonah also worked in the studio and served as a men's basketball beat reporter for the 2004-05 season. Jonah worked a record 248 games at WTBU and was also the first freshman to ever call a game, serving as the color commentator for the women's lacrosse game against Brown University on April 14, 2004. He also served as co-host of the Monday Night Sports Block for three years and a co-host of the award-winning show, Terrier Talk, for two years. It wasn't all about sports at WTBU for Jonah, though, as he was the DJ for an award-winning show called Chicken in a Cup. That show featured a mix of music and talk, both serious and comical with topics ranging from the Massachusetts gubernatorial race (including a 30 minute interview with eventual winner Deval Patrick) to the origin of ping pong. Jonah opened every show by reminding his listeners that "random things happen at random times in random places in no chronological order. Get used to it."

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