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12 centralight spring '14 debate squad to serving as the public address announcer for football and basketball games. Little did I know that it was the foundation being built for an amazing life as a sportscaster." After Central: "After 56 years in broadcasting, I'm still living my dreams," he says. Enberg, who lives in California with his wife, Barbara, has taken viewers on a trip through all major sports in America and through Olympics around the world. He's called everything: tennis tournaments, basketball, football, baseball, golf. He's won 14 Emmy Awards, nine National Sportscaster of the Year Awards and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He's maintained a sense of wonder throughout it all, captured by his signature "Oh, my." Dick Enberg, '57 La Jolla, Calif. Longtime sportscaster, now TV announcer of the San Diego Padres baseball team What he was known for at CMU: Announcer for football and basketball games; student body president The backstory: Little known fact: Dick "Oh, My!" Enberg, now considered one of CMU's most prominent alumni, had to hitchhike to get to CMU from his hometown of Armada, Mich. When he was graduating from high school, CMU president Charles Anspach gave the commencement speech. Young Enberg introduced himself after the speech, and Anspach sent him away with a $100 scholarship – "my ticket to Central Michigan," Enberg recalls. At Central, he worked at WCEN radio as a junior and squeezed in a stint as student body president his senior year. "My experience at CMU was incredible," Enberg says. "From the required freshman speech class to being a member of the CMU PHOTO COURTESY OF CLARKE HISTORICAL LIBRARY

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