MEDIA: IRV KAZE DEAD AT 75 SPORTS EXECUTIVE HOSTED RADIO SHOW.Byline: Tom Hoffarth Staff Writer Irv Kaze, whose career as a sports executive included becoming the first media relations director of the Angels to senior administrator for eight years with the Los Angeles Raiders, died of a heart attack Saturday in Glendale. He was 75. Kaze most recently hosted his own weekly sports-radio interview show for KRLA-AM (870), celebrating his 10th year on the air in March. He died about a half hour after hosting his most recent show. His friendly approach and enormous good nature helped him become a six-time winner of the best sports-talk host given by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. Kaze worked for the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 while attending New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the . He started his baseball career with the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League For the high school sports league, see . The Pacific Coast League (PCL) is a minor league baseball league operating in the West and Midwest of the United States. It is one of two leagues, along with the International League, playing at the Triple-A level, which is one step below , and went to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1958, where he helped develop the first ``save'' rule for relief pitchers. During a two-year tenure with CBS Sports in New York, he helped develop the checkered center line for the NHL to help viewers follow the puck on telecasts. When Al Davis became commissioner of the American Football League For other uses of "AFL", see AFL. ''Note: There were three earlier and unrelated American professional football leagues of the same name: One in 1926, one in 1936-1937 and one in 1940-1941. They are listed at the end of this article. , Kaze joined his staff. After the NFL/AFL merger, Kaze became business manager for the San Diego Chargers
During his career, Kaze also was communications director of the National League, commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association This article is about the American CBA. For the CBA in China, see Chinese Basketball Association. The Continental Basketball Association (CBA) is a professional men's basketball league in the United States. , general manager of the San Diego Sails of the old ABA and media relations director for the New York Yankees under George Steinbrenner. Kaze was on the executive board for the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the NFL Alumni Association. Kaze's son, Benji, is a coordinating producer for Fox Sports, involved in motor sports coverage. |
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