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Above the norm: intellectually stimulating sports radio? Really?

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-NOV-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Above the norm: intellectually stimulating sports radio? Really?(The Cheap Seats: BRYAN CURTIS POPS OFF ABOUT SPORTS)(Norm Hitzges)

Article Excerpt
Hello, Norm? Am I on? I gotta get something off my chest. You're Norm Hitzges, the Dallas-based maestro of the art form we know as sports talk radio. I--like a fair number of people reading this column--have spent the better part of my adult life listening to sports radio. While my friends were leafing through the Great Books, I was trekking through the hinterlands of the AM dial in search of sports news, sports opinions, and, occasionally, sports wisdom. I remember my first sputtering call to a sports radio host. I've got a point to make, Norm, about how your yogi-like approach is exactly what we sports fans crave these days. In a world polluted with sports talk, we need your guidance.

If you do not know Norm Hitzges, then you will recognize the type. He is a balding, mustachioed man who speaks about sports for hours at a time, pausing every so often to read commercials for Bob's Steak and Chop House and Carter Eye Center. Hitzges's army of loyal listeners--referred to on Dallas's KTCK ("the Ticket"), his current radio...

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