Mike Roberts (sportscaster)

This article is about sports broadcaster Mike Roberts. For other people with the same name, see Mike Roberts (disambiguation).

Mike Roberts
Occupation	Broadcaster

Mike Roberts is an American radio sportscaster in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he provides play-by-play for University of New Mexico (UNM) Lobo basketball and football games on KKOB (AM).

Roberts began broadcasting Lobo football games in 1966 and Lobo basketball games in 1968, becoming known along the way as "the Voice of the Lobos".^[1] For years he hosted The Mike Roberts Show and the coaches shows on KKOB and was the sports anchor on KOB-TV, the NBC affiliate in Albuquerque.

Roberts has also called games for the minor league baseball teams, the Albuquerque Dukes and the Albuquerque Isotopes, as well as numerous other local sports events.

When KKOB announced it was replacing Roberts on the popular sports show Lobo Talk in 2003, fans of the show were so outraged that some threatened to boycott the sports bar where it is broadcast.^{[citation needed]}

Roberts began his broadcasting career in Atmore, Alabama, at WATM (now WNRP) in December 1951, making stops from Key West, Florida, to Laramie, Wyoming, before becoming a fixture in Albuquerque radio.

Awards and honors

In 1999, Roberts was named as an inductee to the University of New Mexico Athletic Hall of Honor by the UNM Alumni Lettermen's Association and received its Distinguished Service Award.

New Mexico governor Bill Richardson declared May 8, 2008, as "Mike Roberts Appreciation Day" throughout the state.^[2]

References

1. ^ University of New Mexico Sports Information Department Staff (2001). New Mexico Basketball 2001-02 Yearbook. Sports Publishing LLC. p. 230. ISBN 158261475X. http://books.google.com/books?id=FJCkP7y3g9cC&pg=PA231&lpg=PA231&dq=WATM+atmore&source=web&ots=--qoctW9FJ&sig=UXa4EeoEiNK48NCpp2QJTTHFcVc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result. 
2. ^ "Governor Bill Richardson Proclaims Today“Mike Roberts Appreciation Day”" (pdf) (Press release). State of New Mexico. May 8, 2008. http://www.governor.state.nm.us/press/2008/may/050808_03.pdf. 

• Ringo, Kyle (August 13, 2003). "Bar owner fizzes at radio show fuss". Albuquerque Tribune. Archived from the original on October 30, 2004. http://web.archive.org/web/20041030054216/http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/sports03/081303_sports_roberts.shtml.  (archived on the Internet Archive)
• Stevens, Richard (August 15, 2003). "Why not just take The Pit away, too?". Albuquerque Tribune. Archived from the original on October 30, 2004. http://web.archive.org/web/20041030070501/http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/sports03/081503_sports_eye.shtml.  (archived on the Internet Archive)

External links

• Mike Roberts biography from KKOB
• UNM Athletics Hall of Honor

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