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“BobRob” signs off. Longtime WSU and Tacoma Rainers broadcaster announces immediate retirement

After 52 seasons, Washington State Cougar fans will not hear the familiar voice of Bob Robertson on Saturdays.

Robertson, the long-time Cougar play-by-play man and now analyst, announced his immediate retirement, the school announced on Monday.

Robertson, 89, was also a long-time broadcaster for Tacoma Rainers games for more than three decades. In August the franchise named the broadcast booth after Robinson.

“I’ve been with the Cougars a lot of years, more than half a century, calling basketball, football for the fans around the Northwest and elsewhere around the country and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it,” said Robertson in a press release.