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Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting

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As one of the most first voices of the University of Kentucky men’s basketball program, Claude Sullivan (1924–1967) became a nationally known sportscasting pioneer. His career followed Kentucky’s rise to prominence as he announced the first four NCAA championship titles under Coach Adolph Rupp and covered scrimmages All over the canceled 1952–1953 season following the NCAA sanctions scandal. Sullivan also revolutionized the coverage of the United Kingdom football program with the introduction of a coach’s show with Bear Bryant―a national first that gained significant attention and later became a staple at other institutions. Sullivan’s reputation in Kentucky sooner or later propelled him to Cincinnati, where he became the voice of the Reds, and even to the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in Rome.

In Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Brand new Sportscasting, Claude’s son Alan, together with Joe Cox, offers an engaging and heartfelt have a look at the sportscaster’s life and the context in which he built his career. The 1940s witnessed a tremendous growth in sportscasting across the country, and Sullivan, a seventeen year old from Winchester, Kentucky, entered the field when it was once still a novel occupation that was once paving new roads for broadcast reporting. All over the height of his career, Sullivan was once named Kentucky’s Outstanding Broadcaster by the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters for eight consecutive years. His success was once tragically cut short when he passed on to the great beyond from throat cancer at forty-two

Featuring dozens of interviews and correspondence with sports legends, including Wallace “Wah Wah” Jones, Babe Parilli, Cliff Hagan, Ralph Hacker, Jim Host, Billy Reed, Adolph Rupp, and Cawood Ledford, this engaging biography showcases the life and work of a beloved broadcast talent and documents the upward thrust of sports radio All over the twentieth century.

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