Chip Rives

Chip Rives was practically born at the Houston Astrodome Certainly grew up there and endured many of his most cherished life experiences there It was also there in this multicolored national treasure where his passion for sports and storytelling truly emerged And unfortunately its also where as a kid he learned that if he wanted to be involved in sports it wasnt gonna be on the field So he began writing In 2015 his life came full circle when he produced MLB Networks 8th Wonder of the World a documentary honoring 50 years of Houstons iconic Astrodome Before and after hes gone on to do other awesome things in and out of the sports television world Hes won Six Emmy Awards a Peabody Award and an NACCP award His numerous broadcast documentary credits include ESPN 30 for 30s Brian and the Boz and Phi Slama Jama Historys Alcatraz Search for the Truth Discoverys Ghosts of Bataan CBS Sports History in the Astrodome and Historys The 44th President In His Own Words He also produced and wrote the critically acclaimed Jazz documentary film Chops When hes not traveling for his latest production you find Chip at home in Austinprobably on his back porch watching his beloved Astros