[2] He attended Elmhurst College, where he pitched on the baseball team and worked for the school's newspaper until graduating with degrees in speech communications and urban studies in 1988.

[4] From 1997 to 2004, Wills served as the pre-game and post-game analyst and back-up for John Rooney on White Sox radio broadcasts.

[5] The pair become popular in the Tampa Bay area and well respected across the league for their knowledge of the game and on-air comradery, and Wills was particularly known for his "big personality" and his ability to connect with fans off the air.

[10] He missed the last two weeks of the Rays' regular season and returned to the radio booth for the 2022 American League Wild Card Series.

Hours after broadcasting a Rays spring training victory against the New York Yankees, he died in his sleep at his home early on the morning of March 5, 2023, eight days before his 59th birthday.