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Bob Harris, 'voice of Blue Devils,' to retire after four decades

Duke play-by-play man Bob Harris, known as “the voice of the Blue Devils” for the past four decades, will retire after the 2016-17 men's basketball season, the university announced Tuesday.

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As the longest-tenured play-by-play announcer in ACC history, Harris, who calls Blue Devils football and men's basketball games, enters the 2016 football season with an active streak of 459 consecutive games announced, a run that began Sept. 11, 1976.

But Harris — who has called 1,358 Blue Devils men's basketball games, including 104 against Duke's archrival, North Carolina — is perhaps best known for that work because of the program's success under coach Mike Krzyzewski.