DEAN BLANVINSA match on the Oklahoma sports scene for more than five decades, announced on Monday that it was retiring from KWTV-News 9 to Oklahoma City.
“It was an excellent race,” said Blanvins, sharing the news live. “Better and longer than deserved.”
From 41 years of Blanvins as a broadcaster, he spent 28 in News 9. He was hired by the station in 1997 and has been a sports director of News 9 since 2001.
Blanvins will remain in the air until July 1, when his retirement takes effect. Blanvins said that he would maintain his radio point on weekdays on the “total time of dominance” of WWLS-The Sports Animal.
Toby Rowland, the radio voice of or SoonersWill intervene as a sports director of News 9, the station announced. Rowland was a must of “Oklahoma Sports Blitz” from News 9.
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Blanvins was a three-sports star in football, basketball and the track in Norman High School, from where he graduated in 1974.
He was a double sport athlete for a season at or. Blanvins is the last to have risen in football and basketball during the same season.
Blanvins played the quarter-Arrière for Barry Switzer’s Sooners from 1974 to 1977. He made six departures-four in 1976 and two in 1977. The Sooners went 6-0 in these games.
Blanvins began his career as a broadcasting in Tulsa in 1985. From 1989 to 2001, Blanvins worked as an analyst and a touch journalist for CBS, ABC and ESPN.
“In this crazy business, I know three things,” Blanvins said on Monday. “One, everything is by the grace of God. Second, I gave all the energy of energy that I could invoke. “Three, I tried to be exact and just, and in cement opinion with a high dose of objectivity.
“I can’t simulate 41 years.”
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