Cory Provus (born July 7, 1978) is a sports television and radio broadcaster. Starting for the 2024 season, he will be the play-by-play voice of the Minnesota Twins on television, replacing Dick Bremer. [1]
Provus grew up in Highland Park, Illinois. He graduated from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 2000. [2] [3] Working at WAER-FM at SU campus, he did play by play and studio hosting for the Syracuse Orange sports. [4] [5] While at Syracuse, he called baseball games for minor-league Auburn of the New York–Penn League. [6] [7]
Provus began his career calling collegiate football, basketball, and baseball games for the Virginia Tech Hokies (2000-03), [8] [9] Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, UAB Blazers (2006), and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. [10] Cory is a play-by-play announcer for a small package of Big Ten Network games and is a play-by-play announcer for college basketball on FOX. [7]
He began his major league broadcasting career as the pregame/postgame host for radio broadcasts of the Chicago Cubs and backed up Pat Hughes. [10] [11] The Milwaukee Brewers then hired Provus in 2009, replacing Jim Powell who departed for a job with the Atlanta Braves, alongside Bob Uecker until 2012. [9] Joe Block would replace him.
The Twins hired Provus to replace John Gordon who retired after the 2011 season. [12] [13]
The Twins hired Provus as the play-by-play voice for the television booth to replace Dick Bremer who retired after the 2023 season. [1] [14]
Provus lives in Minnetonka, Minnesota with his wife Dana; they have a son and daughter. [11] Provus is Jewish. [15] Brad Sham, Dallas Cowboys sportscaster, is his cousin. [6]
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