Sportscaster Verne Lundquist to Speak at The University of Texas at Austin, Oct. 30

EVENT: CBS Sports lead college football play-by-play announcer Verne Lundquist will present, “Sports and Television: A 40-Year Journey from Black and White to Digital.” This event, sponsored by the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism, is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to Wade Lee w_lee@mail.utexas.edu or (512) 232-5466.

WHEN: Monday, Oct. 30, 4 to 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: Texas Union - Santa Rita Room on The University of Texas at Austin campus. (Maps of the campus can be obtained at www.utexas.edu/maps/main).

BACKGROUND: Lundquist does play-by-play for CBS television broadcasts of college football and basketball, as well as the Masters golf tournament. He also is among the key voices of NFL Films. His credits at CBS Sports include play-by-play for 20 different sports, including track and field, swimming and diving, boxing, volleyball, gymnastics, figure skating, soccer, weightlifting, free-style skiing, archery, horse racing and horse jumping.

Sports fans across America have heard Lundquist call some of the most dramatic moments in sporting history. He was the play-by-play man for what many consider the greatest college basketball game ever played, the 1992 Regional Final between Kentucky and Duke wherein Christian Laettner hit a 17 foot jump shot as time ran out to win the game in overtime.

He is well known in Texas as the long-time radio voice of the Dallas Cowboys (1972-84). In 2003, he was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame. He was sports director at WFAA-TV Dallas for 16 years and won seven consecutive Texas Sportscaster of the Year awards (1977-83). In 2005, for the first time in the 55-year history of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, members of the media were inducted. Lundquist was part of the inaugural class, along with seven other sportscasters and sports writers. Lundquist began his career at KTBC-TV in Austin.

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Contact: Wade Lee

(512) 232-5466

w_lee@mail.utexas.edu