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    Dick Enberg, legendary sports broadcaster, dies at 82

    by Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times Dec 22, 2017 5 minutes

    He had a bad cold and his voice, what was left of it, was croaky and raw. This was his fourth NCAA basketball tournament game in two days, and Dick Enberg didn't think he could finish it. That had never happened before, but it was happening now.

    So, during a commercial break, Enberg turned to his broadcast partner Al McGuire and asked the former Marquette coach, who had never done play-by-play, to take over.

    Shaking his head, McGuire said, "Dicksie, if you're goin', I'm goin'."

    So, of course, Enberg carried on, whispering his way to the finish in true the-show-must-go-on fashion.

    Enberg, who got into the broadcast business accidentally and stayed in it to supplement his teacher's salary, died Thursday morning at his La Jolla, Calif., home, his wife, Barbara, told

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