BATON ROUGE – The Voice of the Tigers Jim Hawthorne will miss the first LSU football game of his broadcasting career on Saturday when fourth-ranked LSU faces seventh-ranked Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Hawthorne underwent a successful medical procedure late last week and is still recovering. Hawthorne is expected to return to the booth in a couple of weeks.
Patrick Wright, a longtime member of the LSU Sports Radio Network, will handle play-by-play duties in Hawthorne’s absence. Gordy Rush, the sideline reporter for the LSU football broadcast, will fill in for Hawthorne at the Les Miles Radio Show on Wednesday night.