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    ‘One of the best’: Ron Franklin’s booming voice gave Texas football heft in 1980s

    Ron Franklin, blessed with a thunderous baritone voice, always greeted his listeners with commanding presence.

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    • No matter the sport, be it football, basketball or even tennis, if Franklin was on the microphone, it felt big.

    Starting out in faraway places like Roswell, N.M., and Tulsa, Okla., Franklin would find his way to Houston television and eventually Royal-Memorial Stadium in Austin.

    “The voice was just so unique and was so fair about his broadcasts,” former Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said Wednesday.

    “He was one of the best, I thought.”

    Franklin’s time as the Texas football and basketball play-by-play announcer from 1983-88 was unique in UT history. The teams may have struggled, but the broadcasts sure didn’t.

    Franklin died Tuesday in Austin due to what doctors termed COVID-19 related pneumonia, his wife Bonnie told the American-Statesman on Wednesday.

    He was 79.

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