Kents pair together for historic broadcast: ‘It was a very emotional couple of hours’
Ernie and Jordan Kent made a little history Tuesday at Matt Knight Arena, and had some fun while doing it.
The Kents broadcast Oregon’s season-opening 83-66 win over Texas Southern — Ernie providing analysis, Jordan handling play-by-play duties for the men’s contest carried by Pac-12 Network/Oregon.
Has there ever before been a father-son team work a major-college basketball game on TV together?
Fronk was one of Oregon’s great athletes, ‘and the kind of person to match’
Bob Fronk was easy-going, smart, inquisitive, competitive and, among other things, one heck of an athlete.
Most of those traits are indisputable, especially the last one, as those who watched Fronk — who died in Portland Thursday at age 62 — play sports in the late 1970s and early ‘80s.
Fronk, however, was not lucky.