Dean Blevins

Dean Blevins is the preeminent sports personality in Oklahoma after being a highly decorated athlete and sportscaster for over 40 years. Dean began his sportscasting career calling Tulsa basketball games in 1984 on KRMG radio and co-hosting Sportscene statewide on Tulsa Cable television from 1985-88.

Blevins has been with NEWS 9 since 1997 and has held the position of NEWS 9 Sports Director since 2001. He was lead sports anchor at KOCO-TV from 1988-1994. Blevins anchors NEWS 9 Sports weekdays and can also be seen co-anchoring the award winning statewide "Oklahoma Sports Blitz" every Sunday night. He worked morning radio on KATT-FM OKC 1989-1987& for WWLS radio since 1988 where he continues co-hosting the popular weekday drive-time radio show, “The Total Dominance Hour" on The Sports Animal in Oklahoma City.

Blevins is a two-time Emmy Award winner and has been voted the Oklahoma Sportscaster of the Year eight times by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association.

The University of Oklahoma honored Dean with the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award of the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communications. In 2017, Dean was March of Dimes Headliner recipient of the Bob Hersom Award for decades of excellence in journalism.

In 2023, he received the prestigious “55 Over 55 Inspiring Oklahomans” award.

He has won multiple first place honors for Sportscast and News Excellence by the Oklahoma Associated Association of Broadcasters and multiple first-place honors for TV Sports Reporting by the Society of Professional Oklahoma Pro Chapter.

Blevins' experience and success in athletics helps him bring personal insight to his sports coverage. After earning All-State honors in 1974 in football, basketball, and track, Blevins was voted the "Oklahoma High School Athlete of the Year" by The Oklahoma Coaches Association. He also received Oklahoma’s best all-around athlete award with the “Jim Thorpe Award.” Blevins was high school All-American in basketball and was named the 1974 Oklahoma High School Basketball Player of the Year by the Tulsa World. He was selected into the inaugural class of the Norman High School Basketball Hall of Fame.

A FORMER UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA STARTING QUARTERBACK, HE PLAYED ON NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL TEAMS IN 1974 AND 1975 and on four Big 8 Championship teams from 1974 to 1977. Blevins also played basketball at OU and is the last player in over 70 years to have lettered in both football and basketball in the same season at the school.

In 1975, Blevins won the Jay Meyer Award, given to the top scholar athlete at OU. He graduated with a degree in journalism in 1978.

Voted one of America's 10 best-dressed men in sports by Sport Magazine, Blevins announced college football and basketball games for 25 years. Dean worked network television serving for ABC, CBS and ESPN as both sideline reporter and color analyst FROM 1989-2001.

Since 1985, Blevins has hosted coaches’ TV and radio shows for recognizable figures including, but not limited to Barry Switzer, Bob Stoops Lincoln Riley, BRENT VENABLES, J.D. Barnett, Kelvin Sampson, Jerry Jones, AND Eddie Sutton.

THE NORMAN NATIVE IS actively involved in the community and serves on the Board of Directors of Salvation Army in OKC. DEAN HAS hosted charity golf tournaments including the Dean Blevins Infant Crisis Center Golf Charity, the Dean Blevins Arthritis Classic, and the Dean Blevins Christmas Connection Classic.

He spends most of his time off with family but has been an avid golfer. He carried a low single-digit handicap over four decades, won the 1985 Club Championship at the Oaks Country Club in Tulsa, has made four holes-in-one, and is a charter member of the Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame Board of Directors.

Blevins was named the Oklahoma Father of the Year in 2003 by the American Diabetes Association. Blevins and his wife, Sarah, reside in Oklahoma City with their son Carson. His stepsons Chris and Ross are graduates from The University of Oklahoma.