Legendary Missouri State University athletics broadcaster Art Hains is hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be an immune system disorder, his family confirmed to the News-Leader on Thursday.
Hains, 66, has served as “The Voice of the Bears” for the better part of the last 45 years, calling the university’s football, basketball, and baseball games over the radio. He is also the host of the drive-time radio show “SportsTalk” on Jock 96.9 and is part of the Kansas City Chiefs Radio Network team.
“Art is in critical condition at the ICU with what is presumed to be guillain–barré syndrome,” Hains’s son, Chris, sent in a text Thursday to News-Leader sports reporter Wyatt Wheeler, who is Hains’s radio show co-host.