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Cross broke new ground on CBS

 
By Mel Bracht | Published: July 31, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

The growing number of black sportscasters on network television owe a debt of gratitude to former CBS analyst Irv Cross, who started the trend in 1971, when he was hired as the first black sports analyst on national TV.

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Cross, 70, who teamed with Brent Musburger and Phyllis George on "The NFL Today,” credits his fifth-grade teacher for inspiring a poor kid from Hammond, Ind., to dream big, work hard and go to college.

Cross will be honored Aug. 7 in Canton, Ohio, as the recipient of the 2009 Pete Rozelle Award for Radio and Television.

Growing up as the eighth of 15 children in his family, Cross said none of his siblings had ever gone to college, and most worked in the steel mills of East Chicago.

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