BULLETIN: News media outlets are reporting that longtime Sooners radio broadcaster Bob Barry, Sr., has died.
Barry called OU football games for 31 seasons — from 1961 to 1972, then again from 1991 to last year.
He was notable figure in Oklahoma broadcast journalism for 50 years, beginning with his call of Norman High School football games that caught the attention of then OU coach Bud Wilkinson. Wilkinson hand-picked Barry to be the play-by-play announcer for Sooner football.
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