At every ULM home football and basketball game, as the crowd roars with excitement, a familiar voice can always be heard over the cheers.

Though everyone knows this voice, nobody seems to know who it belongs to.

Next time you hear “And that’s another Warhawk…”, fans will better know the man behind the voice.

Q: Where are you from?

A: I’m from Monroe.

Q: Did you go to college at ULM? What was your major?

A: I did at, then, NLU. Radio/TV/Film Production, which is now all merged into Mass Communications.

Q: Did you play any sports when growing up? If so, which was your favorite?

A: I played lots of sports growing up, but I was a music guy, as well. I like baseball.

Q: Are you a full-time announcer?

A: It’s a part-time gig in Monroe. You can’t make a living doing announcing, but I do radio and TV commercials, ULM football and basketball, and I used to do baseball, but not anymore. I’ve done professional football when we had a professional arena team [in Monroe]. I also do voice over work and MC’ing work, as well.

Q: What are your hobbies aside from announcing?

A: On the side, I enjoy playing music. I’m a trumpet player. I’m big into electronics and do a lot of radio and music tech. I still travel and do 20,000-seat arena shows doing sound and lighting work.

Q: How long have you been an announcer? What made you want to announce sports?

A: I was always a pretty good speaker. I started announcing when I was 13 or 14 years old doing local Little League baseball games. Then in 1989, I started in radio in what was then KNLU, and now KXUL.

Q: How did you get asked to do the job at ULM?

A: I got the job by default. I had a good friend of mine named Wayne Gentry, who was the previous announcer to me, and back in 2000 the Sunbelt Conference instituted instant replay for football and he went and started doing instant replay and video production so he needed to find somebody to slide back into his old spot.

Q: Do you get any special treatment as ULM’s sports announcer?

A: You get all the popcorn you can hold, and that’s pretty much about it.

Q: Do you ever question the ref’s decision?

A: Yes, I do, but you have to be nice to everybody. I’m actually in a box with a referee who’s running the clock so I have to kind of keep my mouth shut. Also, the other guys that run the play clock, etc. are all old referees so we’re always second-guessing the referees, but we just kind of look at each other and don’t say anything so we don’t get in trouble.

Q: Do you have any “golden rules” that you follow while you’re announcing? Any special techniques or tricks-of-the-trade?

A: I have a couple. I’ve learned to eat and talk at the same time. I can put popcorn in one half of my mouth and speak out the other side, which is interesting. I do have a few things I use for my voice, and it’s strange, but I use popcorn to clear out my throat because it kind of scratches down through there. If your throat gets raw, I start to eat peanut M&M’s and the chocolate coats your throat and makes it feel better.

Q: Other than warming up your voice, do you tweak your voice for announcing to give any special effect?

A: I do a little bit. I over enunciate because coming through the PA system you have to [talk over the crowd].

Q: Do you enjoy being the mysterious ULM sports announcer?

A: I do. It’s a good gig.

Q: Do you critique other announcers when you hear them?

A: I do, all the time. Every time I go somewhere I usually steal something from where ever I’m at, too. I’ll bring it back home.

Q: Do you ever mute the TV and pretend you’re announcing the show?

A: I do occasionally, before football season starts every year, I’ll mute the TV and call a few minutes of the game just to try and get myself back in the rhythm. The first game of the year you always kind of have to get going. After that, you’re home free and you’re okay for the rest of the year.

Q: Do you have any inspirations, influences, or anyone you try to emulate when announcing?

A: No, not really, I just try to go and do my own thing. I have picked up things from different places, but I just sort of do my own thing. I’ve been a lot of places and I sound like half a gazillion other announcers.

Q: What teams, of any sport, are you a diehard fan of?

A: ULM and whoever’s playing Louisiana Tech.

Q: If you could have announced any historical sporting event, what would it have been?

A: Probably the Ali-Frazier boxing matches.

Q: Any embarrassing moments from announcing you’ll never forget?

A: Occasionally, your voice goes crazy on you and you sound like you hit puberty.

Q: Any advice for aspiring sports announcers?

A: Just try to develop your own style, don’t copy anybody, and just try to be fair to both teams. You’ve got fans there from both places and you can get the crowd pumped up without cheering on your team.

The mysterious announcer is Corey Crowe. No longer is he a mystery to the student body. So, next time fans hear his famous line, they can now put a name to the voice of ULM sports.