Van Vance

Van Vance

Van Vance is an American sports broadcaster and announcer.

Vance appeared on WHAS (AM) radio as the announcer for the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association, often with Cawood Ledford. After the ABA's merger with the NBA Vance was best known for broadcasting University of Louisville basketball games on the same station. Vance worked on the air for WHAS from 1957 through 1999.

For more than ten years Vance also worked at the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky recording Sports Illustrated articles in audio format so that they could be 'read' by the blind.

In 2003 Vance was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame.

External links

* [http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1090419/index.htm Sports Illustrated article on Vance's production of articles for the blind]
* [http://www.kyathletichalloffame.org/Inductees.htm Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame induction]
* [http://www.remembertheaba.com/ABAArticles/BallantiniInterviewVance.html 1999 interview]


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