CHAPEL HILL
Woody Durham, who for 40 years served as the radio play-by-play voice of the North Carolina basketball and football teams, has been diagnosed with a neurocognitive disorder that affects his language expression.
In an open letter released on Wednesday, and one that he read aloud in his familiar voice in a clip posted on the school’s official athletics website, Durham said that he was diagnosed last winter with primary progressive aphasia.
He made the announcement, in part, because he said he’d no longer be doing any public speaking.
“I can still enjoy the company of friends and traveling with my wife, Jean, but I am not able to address groups as I did in the past,” Durham said.