Navajo Station to Broadcast LSU-Troy Football Game (fwd link)

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Navajo Station to Broadcast LSU-Troy Football Game

11/12/2008
by www.LSUsports.net

Note: In what is believed to be a first-of-a-kind event in SEC athletic history,
Cuyler Frank of Albuquerque, N.M., will provide play-by-play description in the
Navajo language of the LSU-Troy football game on the radio and on LSUsports.net
Saturday night from Tiger Stadium.

Mr. Frank provides play-by-play in Navajo of New Mexico State University
football games, and it was there that he met current LSU Chancellor Dr. Michael
Martin. When Chancellor Martin came to LSU, Mr. Frank expressed interest in
broadcasting an LSU game in Navajo. Mr. Frank’s unique description of the game
can be heard on LSUsports.net Saturday night. The pre-game show begins at 6:30
p.m. and kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

By Maria Scandale
Indian Country Today correspondent

Story Originally Published: Oct 10, 2008

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When The New York Times, USA Today, ESPN and Fox Sports
Network were all calling him. “It was the coolest time,” recalls history-making
football announcer Cuyler Frank, Diné, “but hectic.”

“I was even a Jeopardy question.”

In high school, Frank had been on his way to making his name in another sport –
bull riding. But a car accident one night stole not only championship dreams,
but his will to live.

Now his voice is heard across the Navajo nation, broadcasting New Mexico State
University Aggies football games in Navajo. On Nov. 15, a Southeastern
Conference game will be aired in Navajo for the first time when Frank sits in
the booth of the Louisiana State University Tigers.

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