IOWA CITY — Hawkeye Sports Properties, the multimedia rights manager for University of Iowa Athletics, today announced it will reinstate play-by-play announcer Gary Dolphin beginning with coverage of football spring practice. Dolphin will also return for the 2019-2020 football and men’s basketball seasons.
The reinstatement decision, like the suspension, was made by Learfield’s Hawkeye Sports Properties, following collaborative engagement with the Iowa Athletics Department. Dolphin has served as “Voice of the Hawkeyes” since 1996.
Dolphin and Iowa Director of Athletics Gary Barta will participate in a 3 pm CT press conference at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
If I were him I’d tell them to take the job and shove it.
If your going to play physical sports, grow some thick skin. In a fast paced exciting game, it’s hard to be politically correct.
If I were playing a sport and someone called me King Kong I would take that as a compliment, certainly not an insult. This guy is a class act Iowa Hawkeye sports announcer and does not deserve this treatment.
You might not take it as a compliment if you were a black man. That is difference. Even Dolphin has agreed he made an “insensitive” comment and he regrets it.