Next month, Verne Lundquist, the iconic television sports broadcaster, will be in Lexington to accept the Tom Hammond Media Award at the eighth annual Bluegrass Sports Awards Banquet.
In a long career spent mostly with CBS, Lundquist, 78, is probably most associated with coverage of The Masters golf tournament and SEC football.
He was also the television voice of two of the most dramatic moments in University of Kentucky sports history.
Along with analyst Len Elmore, Lundquist was at the microphone in 1992 for the epic Duke-Kentucky NCAA Tournament game that was won in overtime on Christian Laettner’s buzzer-beater.