LAWRENCE
An iconic voice of KU athletics and a former broadcaster for the Kansas City Royals is calling it quits after this college basketball season.
Bob Davis, who has served as the play-by-by broadcaster for the Kansas Jayhawks for 32 seasons, will retire in 2016, KU announced Tuesday. That means Saturday’s Sunflower Showdown at Memorial Stadium will be his final college football broadcast.
“I’ve been really lucky to be the ‘Voice of the Jayhawks’ for 32 years,” Davis said in a news release. “It was a dream job for me when it happened.”
Davis, who graduated from Topeka West High School, started at Kansas in the mid 1980s after spending 16 years broadcasting Fort Hays State University sports.