CTSN Announces Clemson Basketball Radio Team

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Clemson, SC-Pete Yanity, who has served as Clemson's interim

play-by-play announcer on Tiger football games since September, will

provide the same role during the 2003-04 Clemson men's basketball

season. Don Munson will provide the play-by-play commentary on

Clemson Lady Tiger broadcasts. Dave Hubbard of Clemson Tiger Sports

Properties made the announcement Tuesday. Clemson Tigers Sports

Properties is a division of ISP Sports and Learfield Communications.

Yanity took over the play-by-play duties on the

Clemson football season after Jim Phillips, the 36-year voice of the

Tigers, died on September 9. He has handled that task since the

Georgia Tech game on September 20th.

Yanity has been the sports director at WSPA-TV in Spartanburg the

last 13 years. He has also been a sideline analyst for three years

on Carolina Panther preseason football games and has considerable

play-by-play experience for Comcast Sports Southeast covering various

college events, including Clemson football and baseball.

Since 2001 he has been the sideline reporter and host of the pregame,

halftime and postgame programming on the Clemson football radio

network. A 1985 graduate of Ohio University, Yanity served as the

host of Clemson's coach's television shows in the early 1990s and

will join Oliver Purnell as the host of his television show for

this season.

Munson has been the host of the Clemson Tiger Tailgate Show all year

and Tiger Calls, the Tommy Bowden radio call-in program each Thursday

evening, since Phillips passing. He will take over the play-by-play

duties for the Lady Tiger broadcasts, a duty Phillips also performed

for many years. Munson will also serve as the host of Oliver

Purnell's radio call-in program this year. Munson has considerable

experience broadcasting Clemson sporting events. He also has been

the voice of Appalachian State athletics.

Sports Information Director Tim Bourret will assist Yanity on the

men's broadcasts this year. The native of West Hartford, CT is in his

24th full season working providing color commentary for Clemson

basketball, the longest active color commentator in the ACC. Bourret

worked with Phillips on basketball for 23 years and as Phillips's

color commentator on Clemson football from 1982-88. Bourret and

Phillips broadcast over 500 Clemson events together.

Barbara Kennedy-Dixon will join Munson on the Lady

Tiger broadcasts, a role she filled for many years with Phillips.

Kennedy-Dixon was an All-American for the Lady Tigers from 1978-82

and is the ACC's career scoring and rebounding leader. She is

currently Assistant Athletic Director for Basketball Operations for

the Lady Tiger program.

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