University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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Broadcasting with ,615 Ona I z ly fps 'Q I2 - ISCITY Meier dips back to pass and Ends a 131 iii ,t I .1 tb in ..,t 'dexcamgn Marcus Herford down the field for a 35- W ya toucgdlwrflust like on any big Jayhawk play, iii' Bo Davis lifts out of his chair in the radio booth gat near the top of Memorial Stadium, head shaking, ft .grit God-given radio voice booming. ,T F D1 His excitemersltsisheard by thousand A listenersx glsiz across the statesflow. after 39 years in the -. :itil Davis is bein ' d into the Kansas Broadcasters jg- 35,15 Hall of Fa this Su ay. ggi Well D332 said. I guess l've been may around for a whilef' K-LN gm Y' iivpi The A'M' Man Davis fell in love withrhis job ,while announcing jig Davis has done television-he spends his high school and college basketball and football Summers doing play-by-play on the Kansas City games in Fort Hays. He moved to Lawrence in 1983 Royals television network-but it's on the radio J to become me Voice of the Jayhawks' He loved where his skills and personality shine through. Tpoits growmg up' but because he Wasnit much of a Davis Started his Career at KAYS in Hays Where playei on the Held, he decided he would be more of a he did both radio and television sports and news. He niudal Ht in the booth' DM was hired right out of college-he majored in history Hstumbled around mostly? Davis Says of his Trp at Washburn, graduating iii 1967-and did alittle bit isliyiffig Ea? is thafs Why I think I thought, 'man' of everything. He was on the noon TV news, played t in t e ma Cast might be my Catch-W i ixiw at records on the radio in the afternoon and did the 10 DEW? nc: only loves Calling games but is also a , sports ra io roadcast junkie. On the way to away ' D4 O 61:5 Eoionlgshig isjylivilleiggzjg sr a dio booth right games, his co-workers said he insisted they listen Tift away after KAYSE play-by-play man got ajob in to Friday-night high school games during the entire s Lansing, Mich., Soon after Davis. arrival. .They trip. His son, Steven Davis, said he even listened Ml were dumb enough to hire me, Davis said. uAnd during the backyard pickup games they Played ssl not to be braggadocio, but that was a pretty good together' is small-market operation and l think they very rarely HHS always has the fadio OH, Steven said' sHe Dm hired anybody that didn't have experience full time. doesnit know the FM' Side exists, but he knows sm But 1 was wining to work both radio and Tv. WCW AM- Station in the Midwest-i' mil' UDK 10118

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Author Criticizes Intelligent esign UDK 10117 Richard Dawkins, renowned ethnologist and evolutionary biologist, spoke at the Lied Center on Oct. l6'h, in order to argue for the claim that intelligent design was a joke, and that any attempt to scientifically investigate God is a delusion. Dawkins was invited to campus to speak on behalf of the Humanities Lecture Series on the Difiicult Dialogues. The series focused on the split between faith and reason. Other speakers in the series were the Honorable John E. Jones, the Pennsylvania judge who ruled on the possibility of intelligent design being taught in public school classrooms, Os Guinness, and Eugenie C. Scott. To demonstrate the point that intelligent design is an unworkable scientific theory, Dawkins showed a phony front-page newspaper article in which t'Storkte1ligent Designf' the theory that the stork delivers babies, would soon be taught alongside pregnancy in Kansas schools. His arguments were not unanimously endorsed. About one-third of his audience sat as the rest gave him a standing ovation after his talk.

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IFQQ 17 ig+ K V, Vi fur ' ga ff I P5 X if 5 K '1-A jj I F 4' j Worxiagginvefzfime U A G K 0 K F1' avis struggles to pull himself aww craft. He anrioiunces Kansas football in the fall, Kansas basketball in the winter and spring, and Royals baseball throughout the summer. Before he started announcing Royals games, Davis was a sports talk show host on KMBZ in Kansas City. Davis still hiidto do his gig with KMBZ when the J ayhawg-'were onethe road. Producer-engineer of the J ayfhhwk network Bob Newton, who used to room with Davis on road trips, remembers the moming broadcasts aleftoo well. He'd be up at the crack of dawn--tl1at'booming voice on the phone doing his morning sports reportf' Newton said. f'And Ild open one eye and look over there and heis sitting in his shorts on the bed with his legs crossed, media guides and newspapers and stat sheets spread out all over the bed, doing, fBob Davis, 980, KMBZ sports' And I'd look over and say, 'If people could only see this.' And he goes, 'don't tell anybody. ' Respected among peers Those who work with him-Newton, his football broadcast partner David Lawrence and Jayhawk Radio Network general manager Angela Haar-all say the same thing about Davis: hels great at what he does. He doesn't make mistakes so itls hard to get a mistake to tease him on because he's just really good at what he does, Lawrence said. Newton and Lawrence both said even though Davis is so talented, he doesn't let it go to his head. Davis has gotten to where he is by knowing his place Qgtobep 2006 The J ayhawker X!Sf!.'f-9159? at an 5,1 51 i 'Tve always thought the game was the thing, Davis said. f'People might like an announcer but they really tune in to hear the game. And thatls what they're interested in-not so much hearing your head rattle. But don't let Davis fool youg when people tune in to hear a Jayhawk broadcast, they're going to be entertained-as he admits when he calls himself a journalist and an entertainer, Davis is also entertaining off the air. His co-workers said on road trips he always tells stories and makes them laugh. He used to get Max Falkenstien, his former partner in the booth, laughing so hard that Falkenstien would tell him, uDon't make me laugh. I'm going too hoarse. I'm not going to be able to talk during the game. Davis said he's the same person on and off the air. You,ve just got to be yourselff, he said. I listened to a lot of people growing up and I don't think I cautiously patterned myself after anybody. But I think the thing about sports casting is there are probably about as many ways to do it as there are people doing it. And I don't think you can be somebody you're not. If you have enthusiasm, I think it has to be genuine and not forced. I know some guys who rarely get excited or are excited at a time when it's really not time to be. I just think you have to be what you are and hopefully it works? Davis doesn't try to hide that he's a Jayhawk fan, but he's a broadcaster tirst. I think he's got the perfect balance of being a homer and being a journalist, Newton said. When the Jayhawks score a touchdown, one of their biggest fans can be found in the radio booth-leaping out of his chair and excitedly telling the world. His heart and soul are in those broadcasts, Haar says. He's as fired up as those people in the stands are-if not more. Heis got that same energy as the people taking the goalposts down ' 6 607 Yearbook Page O25 in the broadcasts.