Greg Hoard, longtime Cincinnati sports anchor and writer, dies at 73
Longtime Cincinnati TV sports anchor/reporter Greg Hoard, who also wrote for The Enquirer and Cincinnati Post and authored several books, died at age 73.
Hoard, from Blocher, Indiana, attended Emory University. He wrote for the Post as a columnist and feature writer before becoming The Enquirer's Cincinnati Reds beat writer in the mid-1980s.
In 1990, he became a sports anchor and later sports director at WLWT-TV. He became the first sports anchor and director at WXIX-TV in 1993, and worked at Fox 19 for 12 years.
Later, Hoard wrote "Joe: Rounding Third and Heading for Home" about legendary Reds pitcher and broadcaster Joe Nuxhall; "Voices in my Head: The Gary Burbank Story," about the longtime 700 WLW-AM personality; and "Hannan's Way: An Unlikely Trek Through Life" about entrepreneur Richard Hannan, as well as a book he co-authored with Hannan.
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