[NFBMT] NPR segment about Paul doing the play-by-play

[Rik James]

Wow, George! A double score, to me! Paul Radar's game call cip was amazing,
and also so touching to hear how he developed his friendship with you. I
love that they included the "worst call all night" comment. Ha ha! 
I also have always loved William Marcus' voice. Clear, warm, and
intelligent. Backroads of Montana has had a great host over many years on
Montana PBS, and on NPR. 
I would love to hear Marcus read A River Runs Through It. You know?

For fans who want to hear good radio voice in the here and now. Not in
Montana, but over east a couple thousand miles. Paul Keels, long time voice
of the Ohio State Buckeyes is old school all the way, and delivers wonderful
rich narrative on both basketball and football games.
I grew up hearing Buckeyes, so it is sort of in my blood, so to speak. And
Paul brings it to my ears several times when I can tune in each season. 
The radio station in Columbus is WBNS. You can find it in the OoTunes Radio
list on the Victor Stream or Google 97.1 The Fan Columbus to get the link.

And in Montana, here in Bozeman, we once again have live radio sports
broadcasting. It was off for quite a few years, as the man who bought up
most of the radio licenses lost had tax problems and all the stations went
belly up.
Now, we have a community all volunteer station that has brought back
American Legion baseball and high school sports games live play by play.
Check out this link for the schedule, and visit the other links there for a
wide array of recorded audio of lectures at the museum and other things,
too.
www.KGVM.org

If I could get something going, I think we could get some airtime with
informative subjects related to blindness, too, on KGVM. Any suggestions?
People want to help?

Rik James


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George et al,
	Thanks for this.  When I first lost my sight, one of our boys was on
the BB Team at Simms and we would go to the games and Anna would do a play
by play for me.  She wasn't polished and probably did somewhat as your wife
did.  When the play intensified, she would fall into a "ooo ooo ooo" mode,
but we got back into a good mode pretty quick.  Several of the folks seated
around us made the comment that they appreciated Anna for her play by play,
probably as much as I did.
Ted Robbins,


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Subject: [NFBMT] NPR segment about Paul doing the play-by-play

Dear Montana NFB,

 

On our call yesterday, I mention the late retired sports announcer Paul
Radar who went to the Hellgate girls' basketball games as my personal
announcer. William Markus did the piece that aired on NPR in 1996, when Zoey
was a senior.

 

Here is the link to the seven-minute mp3. It should just start playing in
your default MP3 player. You might want to turn up the volume a bit.

 

http://kerscher.montana.com/paul.mp3

 

It would be wonderful to find others who could help us out at events, like a
daughter's dance recital. I go to my grandchildren's soccer games, and it is
quite boring. When I go to Emerson's games, Zoey does the play-by-play, and
she is pretty good, but nothing like Paul, God rest his soul.

 

I do not link to this from my home page, because it is copyrighted by NPR.
If The link does not work, I can try attaching the file in a private email.

Best

George

 

 



 

George Kerscher Ph.D.

-In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.

Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium

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Email: kerscher at montana.com <mailto:kerscher at montana.com> 

 



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