CYBERSPORT : THE LEONARD TOSE ROUTE.Byline: Tom Hoffarth Dateline, the Internet. Incoming e-mail . . . It's been a few years since L.A. sports radio Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. A popular format with an almost exclusively male demographic in most areas, sports radio is characterized by an often-boisterous on-air style and icon Jim Healy Jim Healy (born 1923-died July 22, 1994) was a longtime Los Angeles sports commentator (KLAC, 1961-65; KFWB, 1969; KABC, 1969-84; KLAC, 1973-82; KMPC, 1984-94), whose daily solo radio show featured a number of sound effects and audio clips of famous sports personalities, which he passed on. It's taken some months to fully undergo Healy withdrawal. Thanks to the Web, Healy lives. The Jim Healy Soundbite Archive was a site we first reviewed in February 1997, but decided to revisit to see how things were shaping up. Matt White, a Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Inquirer Morning newspaper, long one of the most influential dailies in the eastern U.S. Founded in 1847 as the Pennsylvania Inquirer, it took its present name c. 1860. It was a strong supporter of the Union in the American Civil War. reporter and USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. grad who relished in Healy's drive-time splendor of Rona Barrett-style of sports gossip/reporting, has collected audio clips from loyal listeners and organized them into this Healy shrine. The ``Classic Healy'' section includes the Ray Malavasi interview from 1981, when the former Rams coach fell asleep during a Monday morning post-game phone interview with KMPC's Robert W. Morgan Robert W. Morgan (born July 23, 1937, died May 22, 1998) was a renowned disc jockey who was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1999. He did most of his work in Los Angeles, California at stations such as KHJ, where he was known as one of the "boss jocks" that dominated the Top . In the ``Listener Clips'' section, there are the Tommy Lasorda tirades about Kurt Bevacqua and Dave Kingman, plus classic snotty snippets from Vin Scully, Chick Hearn and Al Michaels (who was informed of the site's domain recently and happily clicked on). From the ``Healy Essentials'' are his four most-famous bites: ``the laugh,'' ``blow it out,'' ``say what?'' and ``OK . . .,'' the last of which is actually researched for its origins (it's a ``Hudson and Landry'' sketch from their early '70s L.A. radio show). Server restrictions limit the site to WAV format clips only, so Mac users have to download SoundAp converter. Uh, yeah . . . Cybernotes: Nebraska would defeat Michigan if they played for the college football championship, 61.4 percent of 30,992 respondents voted in an ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network SportsZone poll . . . In its 1997 Year in Review issue, Yahoo! magazine picks ESPN SportsZone, Sports Illustrated and NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= .com as its top sports sites. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO The Jim Healy Soundbite Archive http://users.visi.net/mttwhite/healy/healy.html |
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