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Hall of Fame broadcaster Dick Enberg dies at age 82
ESPN ^ | 12/22/2017 | ESPN News Services

Posted on 12/21/2017 11:25:46 PM PST by Az Joe

Dick Enberg, the Hall of Fame broadcaster whose "Oh my!" calls rang familiar with so many sports fans, has died, his wife and daughter confirmed Thursday night. He was 82.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: broadcaster; californiaangels; dickenberg; enberg; obituary; ohmy
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1 posted on 12/21/2017 11:25:46 PM PST by Az Joe
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To: Az Joe


RIP!
2 posted on 12/21/2017 11:36:51 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Az Joe
whose "Oh my!" calls rang familiar

I found that annoying. I think I became jaded listening to Vin Scully and Chick Hearn. Enberg was an amateur compared to them.

3 posted on 12/21/2017 11:41:06 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Headline: Muslims Fear Backlash from Tomorrow's Terror Attack - Mark Steyn)
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I remember when he hosted “Sports Challenge”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrtqGfyUk18


4 posted on 12/21/2017 11:42:40 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Az Joe

He, Billy Packer, and Al McGuire were the best college basketball announcing team ever, IMO.


5 posted on 12/21/2017 11:47:09 PM PST by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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Dick also hosted an NBC TV game show called "3 For The Money". Here's a clip from an episode of the show which had a very brief run in 1975.
6 posted on 12/22/2017 12:03:28 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Jeff Chandler

Sept 1965 outside of Phoenix. I remember laying in bed in the room I shared with my brother, both of us listening to Scully on the transistor radio while Koufax threw his 4th no hitter. Mom kept coming in and telling us we had to get to sleep because we had school the next day..but we heard him finish the perfect game.


7 posted on 12/22/2017 12:19:10 AM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: Az Joe

I think he did the Angels broadcasts in the ‘70s; now he is with them. RIP.


8 posted on 12/22/2017 1:34:22 AM PST by BeadCounter
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To: Az Joe

One of my All Time Favorites.


9 posted on 12/22/2017 2:07:42 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Another Islamic terrorist event, and no “outrage” from the “Muslim community”. Again)
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A true professional who was smooth as silk. The Pat Summeral of tennis and basketball


10 posted on 12/22/2017 3:21:57 AM PST by CrouchingTiger620 (is it possible to 45th worse out of 44)
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To: dfwgator
So do I. RIP Dick.

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11 posted on 12/22/2017 3:33:18 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: dfwgator
He was in the Warren Beatty movie, "Heaven Can Wait"


12 posted on 12/22/2017 3:36:48 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: BeadCounter

“I think he did the Angels broadcasts in the ‘70s; now he is with them. RIP”

The L.A. Rams as well.


13 posted on 12/22/2017 3:41:47 AM PST by DAC21
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To: Az Joe

Seems very sudden after being the Padres’ play-by-play man just a year or so ago. He was key to the growth of college basketball broadcasting in the 60s and 70s, then a great NFL announcer in the 80s and 90s. He once said baseball was his favorite sport to announce.

RIP Dick. A true professional.


14 posted on 12/22/2017 3:58:44 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Let Trump Be Trump. Would you rather have Hillary?)
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To: Az Joe

Condolences to family and friends of Dick Enberg.


15 posted on 12/22/2017 5:15:59 AM PST by PGalt
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To: OrangeHoof

A heart attack is the suspected cause.


16 posted on 12/22/2017 6:28:58 AM PST by hole_n_one
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To: Az Joe

He was from my old stomping grounds in Michigan.
RIP.


17 posted on 12/22/2017 6:30:06 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Az Joe

Growing up in SoCal in the late 60”s and 70’s he was the tv voice of UCLA basketball on KTLA.


18 posted on 12/22/2017 6:33:37 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Az Joe

Growing up in SoCal in the late 60”s and 70’s he was the tv voice of UCLA basketball on KTLA.


19 posted on 12/22/2017 6:33:37 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Az Joe

RIP.


20 posted on 12/22/2017 6:59:14 AM PST by EdnaMode
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