LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Today) – Student broadcasters from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Kansas State University will team up to honor legendary sportscaster Greg Sharpe — and highlight the scholarship fund that bears his name — during a special radio broadcast of the Husker men’s basketball exhibition game Oct. 26.
The Oct. 26 men’s basketball exhibition between Nebraska and Kansas State will be known as “The Greg Sharpe Scholarship Game” when it is broadcast by KRNU, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications’ campus radio station. The game is scheduled for a 6:30 p.m. tipoff at the Big Iron Events Center in Grand Island, Nebraska. KRNU can be heard on 90.3 FM in Lincoln and streamed online.
Sharpe was a sportscaster and play-by-play announcer for the athletic programs at both universities. After he graduated from Kansas State in 1986, he began his career in radio and television in Topeka, Kansas. A decade later, he became the “Voice of the Wildcats,” a position he held from 1996-2002…