Obituary
Rex Lardner, Jr. - Dead at 79
Sports programming pioneer, Rex Lardner, a veteran broadcast executive who worked for NBC, CBS, TBS and other sports entitles, has died after a brief stay in hospice care in Tucson, Arizona.
Rex was a sports programming savant who was first to put Larry Bird on national television during Bird’s senior year at Indiana State. In February of 1979, Bird wasn’t “known” to the general sports public, but Rex …
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