{"id":136492,"date":"2018-01-13T14:39:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T20:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=136492"},"modified":"2018-01-13T14:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T20:39:51","slug":"legendary-sportscaster-keith-jackson-passes-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=136492","title":{"rendered":"Legendary sportscaster, Keith Jackson passes, 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-136493\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/keith-jacksonjpg-4ea24414cc91adc7-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/keith-jacksonjpg-4ea24414cc91adc7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/keith-jacksonjpg-4ea24414cc91adc7.jpg 400w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/keith-jacksonjpg-4ea24414cc91adc7-262x175.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Keith Jackson, the down-home voice of college football during more than five decades as a broadcaster, has died. He was 89.<\/p>\n<p>He died Friday and no cause was given in a statement Saturday by ESPN. Jackson&#8217;s longtime employer was ABC Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson covered many sports, but he was best known for college football. His signature phrases like &#8220;Whoa, Nelly!&#8221; gave his game calls a familiar feel.<\/p>\n<p>Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger says Jackson &#8220;was college football&#8221; for generations of fans.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson retired after the 2006 Rose Bowl and is a member of the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson was a longtime resident of Sherman Oaks, California, and Pender Harbor, British Columbia. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Turi Ann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Keith Jackson, the down-home voice of college football during more than five decades as a broadcaster, has died. He was 89. He died Friday and no cause was given in a statement Saturday by ESPN. Jackson&#8217;s longtime employer was ABC Sports. Jackson covered many sports, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136494,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136492\/revisions\/136494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}