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Jim Donovan, Cleveland Browns play-by-play announcer and TV sports activities anchor, dies of most cancers at 68

Editorial Board Published October 26, 2024
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Jim Donovan, Cleveland Browns play-by-play announcer and TV sports activities anchor, dies of most cancers at 68
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Jim Donovan, the beloved radio play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Browns and a TV sports activities fixture for greater than 4 many years, died Saturday. He was 68.

Donovan retired from his broadcast profession earlier this 12 months and stepped away from his game-day duties with the workforce earlier than this season whereas battling most cancers. Donovan introduced his retirement from WKYC on Might 30 and labored his ultimate broadcast as a sports activities anchor on June 10. He had known as Cleveland’s video games because the workforce’s enlargement rebirth in 1999.

Cleveland Browns radio broadcaster Jim Donovan stands on the sector previous to an NFL soccer sport in opposition to the Buffalo Payments on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 in Cleveland. The Browns received 37-24.

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“This is an incredibly difficult day for us and the entire Cleveland Browns organization,” Browns homeowners Dee and Jimmy Haslam mentioned in an announcement. “His affect because the Voice of the Browns for 25 years is immeasurable as he touched the lives of our followers each Sunday together with his love for the Browns and his brilliance at his craft.

“He will be greatly missed, but he cemented a legacy that will live on forever. The only thing that outweighed his love for this city and this team was the love he had for his family. Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, Cheryl, his daughter, Meghan, and everyone who was fortunate enough to call Jimmy family or friend.”

A Boston native identified to everybody as “Jimmy,” Donovan endeared himself to Cleveland followers together with his ardour, humorousness and professionalism. He was a stickler for element, spending numerous hours getting ready for sport broadcasts.

Donovan had lately been inducted into the Browns’ Legends Membership and the Larger Cleveland Sports activities Corridor of Fame. He had been too unwell to attend the occasions.

When he was pressured to step down in August, Donovan wrote a letter to Browns followers expressing his gratitude for his or her help.

“I have called Browns games for 25 years. Not a day has gone by when I haven’t paused and been so proud to be ‘The Voice of the Browns,’” he wrote. “Cheryl, Meghan and I thank you for all the love, support and prayers during my rough patches. It’s like having a huge family around us. And that’s what makes the Cleveland Browns so special. You do.”

Donovan needed to step away as sports activities director at WKYC-TV final fall for a number of months to endure therapy for leukemia. He returned to the printed sales space in time to name the workforce’s late-season run to the playoffs.

Donovan was first recognized with continual lymphocytic leukemia, a pressure of the illness that begins in white blood cells and impacts bone marrow, in 2000. He underwent a bone marrow surgical procedure in 2011.

A graduate of Boston College, Donovan obtained to Cleveland in 1985. Together with doing native reporting of town’s three skilled sports activities franchises, Donovan additionally had a number of nationwide community assignments and was a part of NBC’s protection workforce on the 1992 and 1996 Summer season Olympics.

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