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Baseball: WSGS and WKIC broadcast every game of the Hazard Bombers Baseball team during the '40s and '50s and was the voice of the Cincinnati Reds for 35 years. Football: The stations began covering Hazard High School football games in the 1940s, adding M. C. Napier and Dilce Combs football games on the radio in the 1950s. Fifty years ago - announcer Dick Goodlette broadcast the home games from the old Collins Field. In the '50's and '60s, announcers Jerry Yarbrough, and Jay Lasslo were the voice of high school football in East Kentucky. In 1974 WSGS broadcast the first game played at Daniel Field in Hazard. Jay Lasslo continued covering football on the radio well into the 1990s. In recent years, WSGS covered the Breathitt County Bobcats to two consecutive State Titles and WSGS was there when Middlesboro won it all. In the '90's, when Dilce Combs & M. C. Napier consolidated into Perry County Central High School, WSGS began following the Commodores. Today the East Kentucky Sports Network broadcast team includes Dave Hammond, Danny Hall, Ollie Hall, & John McIntyre. Tune to 97.9 FM and 101.1 FM on the East Kentucky Sports Network for the region's most exciting ballgames.
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Nobody
has done as many high school basketball & football games as WSGS & WKIC.
WSGS is the only station in Kentucky to broadcast every game of the Boy's
State Basketball Tournament dating back to 1948. Broadcasters covering the
Sweet 16 included Dick Goodlette, Fred Bullard, and Bob Mansfield. Ernest
Sparkman was behind the mic at the State Tournament for 40 years, and Jay Lasslo
for 32 years. WSGS has carried every game of the University of Kentucky's
National Basketball Championship teams in 1948, 1949, 1951, 1958, 1978, 1996,
and 1998.
