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Brent Stover | |
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 Stover in 2017 | |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Occupation | TV sportscaster |
| Known for | CBS Sports, NASCAR on Fox |
Brent Stover is an American sportscaster who works for the CBS Sports Network. [1] and NASCAR on Fox as a substitute play-by-play for their ARCA Menards Series TV coverage.
Stover is a studio host and play-by-play announcer for CBS Sports. He joined the network in 2010, announcing college football and college basketball, along with the World's Strongest Man competition. He has performed a similar role with the Big Ten Network and FSN Midwest and FSN Southwest. He also has been a studio host for coverage of the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates and was a postgame host for the St. Louis Rams Radio Network. He was the voice of the Chicago Sky of the WNBA. He is an occasional guest host on the Artie Lange Show . He also covers Major League Lacrosse and the Arena Football League on occasion on CBS Sports Network.
In 2023, Stover was hired by NASCAR on Fox to fill in for Jamie Little as play-by-play for the ARCA Menards Series race at Berlin Raceway. Little, who is also a pit reporter for Fox's Cup Series coverage, took that weekend off as it was the week following the end of Fox's Cup Series coverage for the year.
Stover graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in journalism where he ran track-and-field and cross country. He is an aspiring country musician playing around NYC.
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