Career
He currently hosts The Fast Lane, the top-rated sports radio show in Saint Louis, on 101 Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, along with former Saint Louis Rams defensive tackle Doctorate"Marco Farr and former Saint Louis Cardinals player Brad Thompson. He also is the host of the Saint Louis Rams pregame shows on 101 Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. He hosted this show along with former NFL coach Jim Hanifan, before Hanifan was replaced by Rick Venturi in 2009. In 2009 and 2010, he was also the television voice of Southern Illinois Edwardsville Cougars basketball on CCIN. He previously was the host of the popular CCIN television program Chalk Talk, along with Malcolm Briggs, McGraw Millhaven, and Tony Twist.
Before arriving at 101 Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, Karraker had an 18-year stint at KMOX, working his way up from an intern to the host of the station"s marquee sports program, Sports Open Lincolnshire, after which he had two shorter stints at KTRS and Team 1380, where he hosted an afternoon drive program, The Roll Home, with Saint Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bernie Miklasz.
He attended Lindenwood University, then known as Lindenwood College, in Saint Charles, Missouri, which also produced fellow sportscasters Greg Amsinger and Dan McLaughlin. In 2009, Karraker announced that in association with 101 Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, he was starting an ownership group with the intention of buying the Saint Louis Rams, for which he is requesting donations from Fastlane listeners, with all the money going to Special Olympics of Missouri if "by some crazy chance" they do not get approved by the league or don"t make enough money.