As the anchor of Comcast SportsNet’s “SportsRise” and “SportsDay,” Matt Morrison is one of the leading authorities on Oregon and Northwest sports. Every morning Matt gives Oregon sports fans the latest highlights, big plays, and a look at upcoming action on “SportsRise” from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and again on “SportsDay” from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Prior to joining Comcast SportsNet when the network launched in November 2007, Matt served as anchor and reporter for FSN Northwest for two years, where he covered Oregon and Washington State professional and college sports and hosted “FSN Live” and “Mariners All Access.”

Mike Barrett is in his fifth season as the Trail Blazers’ TV play-by-play man, broadcasting all the team’s television games Comcast SportsNet. He worked his first two seasons with Steve “Snapper” Jones, and the last two with Mike Rice. Barrett joined the Trail Blazers in December of 1999, and was hired to be the radio studio host, the TV pre-game and halftime host, and to host Blazers Extra, the 30-minute feature show done weekly during the season. Barrett grew up in Albany, Ore., and after graduating from West Albany High, moved on to Oregon State. Barrett resides in Tualatin with his wife, Shelly. They have a son, Jack, and a daughter, Gabby.

Veteran head basketball coach and basketball commentator Mike Rice, in his 18th season on the Trail Blazers broadcasting team, marks his third year as the team's television color commentator. Rice was an honorable mention All-America selection at Duquesne as a senior, when he led the Dukes to a third-place national ranking and an NIT invitation. Selected in the eighth round of the 1962 NBA Draft by the Detroit Pistons, he opted instead to pursue a career in coaching. His wife Kathy is a former Duquesne basketball player. The couple has two daughters, Susan and Stephanie, both graduates of Syracuse University, and a son, Mike, who played at Fordham University and is now the head coach of Division-I Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, PA.

Michael Holton joined ESPN in February 2007 as a color analyst for the cable network’s televised coverage of NCAA basketball. During the 2006-07 season, Holton was also a new radio analyst for the Portland Trail Blazers and 750 KXL.

A former NBA player and recently the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Portland, Holton is a co-host on the ‘Fifth Quarter’ post-game show on the Trail Blazers radio network on 750 AM KXL during the Blazers’ road games. He hosts alongside veteran broadcaster Bob Akamian.

Holton also joined KXL as a new co-host of ‘Ducks Rewind’, a weekly radio show airing throughout Oregon/Washington on Monday nights at 8 p.m. examining the Oregon Ducks men’s basketball program and the Pac-10 alongside KXL sports director Jay Allen.

For the past several years, Holton has served as an NCAA basketball expert for ESPN radio, NBC/KGW-TV, 1080 the Fan and 750 KXL in Portland, ESPN 710 AM and ESPN 570 AM in Los Angeles.

Holton was hired by State Farm Insurance in December, 2006. His agency will open in October 2007 in the South Waterfront/Macadam Blvd area.

A newcomer to the Blazers Broadcasting team, Rebecca Haarlow is in her first season as a sideline reporter and feature producer. Before joining the Trail Blazers, Haarlow was a TV host and reporter for Fox Sports Net in Los Angeles. Most recently, she helped launch the Big Ten Network as a college football sideline reporter. In 2007, she made her national television debut on FSN, traveling to Australia to host the Aussie Millions poker tournament. Haarlow is a graduate of Princeton University, where she was a first team All-Ivy heptathlete and captain of the track & field team. A native of Hinsdale, Ill., the Trail Blazers rookie comes from a family of five. Her parents John and May reside in Hinsdale with the family dogs Jessie and Quincy, while her two brothers, John and Mike, live in Chicago.

Tony Luftman begins his first season as the TV Studio Host for the Trail Blazers. Before coming to Portland, Luftman spent the last two NBA seasons as the TV Sideline Reporter and Radio Host for the Memphis Grizzlies. In spring of 2007, Luftman made his national television debut on CSTV when he covered college softball on the network. Before making it to the NBA broadcast ranks at age 29, Luftman spent six years covering college sports as a play-by-play voice and studio host with stops at Virginia Tech, UCLA, Cal State Northridge and Vanguard UniversityThe Los Angeles native earned his degree from UCLA, where he was a four-year team manager for the men’s basketball team and a member of the Bruins’ 1995 NCAA Championship team.