Rich Marotta
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Rich Marotta is an American
United States
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 sportscaster
Sportscaster
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 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, California
California
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. He was the color analyst for the Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles Kings
The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...

 of the NHL
National Hockey League
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 alongside Bob Miller, the Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders
Oakland Raiders
The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

 of the NFL
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

, and Los Angeles Clippers
Los Angeles Clippers
The Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, United States. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association...

 in the NBA
National Basketball Association
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. He currently calls boxing on Fox Sports Net
Fox Sports Net
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 television, pay per view. In 2006, he won the Sam Taub Award
Sam Taub Award
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 for excellence in boxing broadcasting journalism. He can be heard on the Bill Handel
Bill Handel
William Wolf Handel is the director and founder of the Center for Surrogate Parenting and an AM radio personality in Los Angeles, California....

 Show on KFI AM 640 Radio, and XTRA Sports AM 570 in Los Angeles. He lives in Reno, Nevada
Reno, Nevada
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, and does these shows via ISDN from a studio in Reno. With the departure of Paul T. Wall back to Guam
Guam
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, Rich has become increasingly verbal about his liberal political views and is a supporter of U.S. President Barack Obama
Barack Obama
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. Marotta covered the 2008 Democratic National Committee Convention
2008 Democratic National Convention
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 in Denver, Colorado for the Bill Handel
Bill Handel
William Wolf Handel is the director and founder of the Center for Surrogate Parenting and an AM radio personality in Los Angeles, California....

 Show.

Marotta is the host of the radio boxing show The Neutral Corner. Heard Sunday mornings on KLAC 570 AM.

Rich is married and has two children, Angela Rose and Joseph Marotta.
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