Padres broadcaster Ted Leitner retires after 41 years with the team Leitner has been a Padres institution for the last four decades.
01/15/2021
Ted Leitner’s long and distinguished career as the voice of the San Diego Padres has come to an end.
On Friday, Leitner and the Padres announced that he was retiring from his broadcasting role with the team and would become a team ambassador.
“I will miss everything about the Padres broadcast that I have been privileged to be a part of for so many years,” Leitner said in a statement. “I’ve had the best seat in the house in San Diego for over four decades, and I’ve had the honor of working alongside Hall of Fame broadcasters while watching the greatest players to ever wear a Padres uniform.
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For 41 seasons, Ted Leitner has been an ambassador for the Padres as the radio play-by-play voice of the National League team.
Starting today, that ambassador role comes with a capital A.
Leitner is transitioning to the role of Padres’ Team Ambassador as he moves away from the radio booth to a front-office position.
Known affectionately as “Uncle Teddy” to legions of fans who followed “My” Padres, through his words, Leitner will become involved in team-organized events for the Padres, including community appearances and speaking engagements.
The new role with the Padres could be a fastball to Leitner’s wheelhouse. In addition to his radio duties with the Padres as well as San Diego State where he will continue to be the play-by-play voice of the Aztecs’ football and men’s basketball teams Leitner is well known throughout the San Diego community as the host and emcee of countless major events.
Nick Saban wins 2020 Paul âBearâ Bryant Coach of the Year Award Alabama head coach Nick Saban leads his Crimson Tide team onto the field to face LSU at Tiger Stadium on December 5, 2020 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (Source: Kent Gidley) By Drew Dover | January 13, 2021 at 8:30 PM CST - Updated January 13 at 9:23 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Alabama head football coach Nick Saban was given the Paul âBearâ Bryant Coach of the Year Award Wednesday night.
Saban also won the Bryant Award in 2003 while he was head coach at LSU. The only other Bama head coach to win the award was Gene Stallings in 1992.
Nick Saban Wins 2020 Paul âBearâ Bryant Coach of the Year Award
This is the second time in his career that Saban has taken home the honor
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Jan 13, 2021
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The American Heart Association announced tonight on FOX Sports that head coach has been named the recipient of the 2020 Paul Bear Bryant Award.
The award recognizes the country s top college football coach for his contributions both on and off the field. The award is selected after all bowl games have concluded and is voted on by the National Sports Media Association.
“Well, I don t think anybody really compares to Coach Bryant,” Saban said after Alabama’s 52-24 win in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on Monday night. “In the era that he coached, the era that he won, he won a lot of different ways. He won throwing it. He won running a wishbone. He won it running conventional offensive formations.
01/11/2021
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