By his junior year in high school, he was sports director for the radio station, doing morning drive-time reports on area high school sports and Texas college and pro teams as well as providing play-by-play for radio and TV for football, basketball, softball, and baseball.
[1] He provided play-by-play for TV broadcasts of NCAA football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, and lacrosse.
In 2011, Blackburn broadcast the 2008 Reebok Grand Prix where Usain Bolt set a new world record in the 100 meters with a time of 9.71.
Blackburn was a part of the CBS Sports team doing feature group coverage for the 2015 Masters golf tournament.
[citation needed] By age thirty-one, Blackburn had called the NFL on Fox, the NCAA basketball tournament on CBS, and college football on ABC.