Allen Samuel "Roxy" Bernstein (born September 25, 1972) is an American sportscaster for

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, the

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, and the

Oakland Athletics The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the A's) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The t ...

Early life and career

Bernstein was born in

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and grew up on the

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in the Bay Area. After graduating from Pinewood School in Los Altos,

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, Bernstein went on to the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

and graduated with a degree in American Studies. While at Cal, Bernstein broadcast football, men's and women's basketball, and baseball and served as sports director of the student radio station, KALX (FM). Bernstein was hired by Cal at age 23 as the voice of Cal basketball after serving as the backup broadcaster and pregame and postgame host the previous season.

Broadcasting stops

, Bernstein is a play-by-play broadcaster of college basketball, NHL and football for ESPN, the

, and the

, and is the former broadcast voice for the

California Golden Bears men's basketball The California Golden Bears men's basketball team is the college basketball team of the University of California, Berkeley. The program has seen success throughout the years, culminating in a national championship in 1959 under coach Pete Newel ...

team on the IMG Sports/Cal Basketball Radio Network. Bernstein had held the Cal position since 1997 and also did national college football play-by-play on the Touchdown Radio Network with 1992 Heisman Trophy winner and

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member Gino Torretta. He has been a part-time broadcaster for the Oakland Athletics since 2014; a talk show host for KGMZ 95.7 FM The Game in San Francisco, formerly hosted noon to 3pm on Xtra Sports 860/Sports Byline (

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) in San Francisco with

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and Geoff Sheen; and host of ''The Randy Bennett Radio Show'', a weekly broadcast featuring

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men's basketball coach

Randy Bennett Randall William Bennett (born June 9, 1962) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Saint Mary's College of California. He led the team to several second-place finishes and seven NCAA tournament ap ...

. In the winter of 2008-2009, Bernstein was one of two finalists to become the next San Diego Padres television play-by-play announcer, but did not get the job.Local play-by-play man gets call for opening ceremonies by andy altman-ohr, staff writer
/ref> In August 2009, Bernstein was emcee of the opening ceremonies for the San Francisco Maccabi Games; Bernstein played in the games as a youth, 21 years earlier. Bernstein spent three years as a broadcaster with the

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(2005–2007), teaming with 2011 Ford C. Frick Award Winner Dave Van Horne, but left the Marlins to return to the Bay Area full-time. Prior to his stint with the Marlins, Bernstein called games for the

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and

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. He also worked for numerous minor league baseball clubs, including the Sonoma County Crushers, Solano Steelheads,

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, and

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. Bernstein has shown his versatility by providing play-by-play for the

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, San Francisco Demons,

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, NHL Radio,

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, and the

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on Sports USA Radio Network, as well as numerous events on television for

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and Comcast Sports Net.Florida Marlins '07 website
Retrieved on January 2, 2009

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