''For people named Jack Briggs, see Jack Briggs (disambiguation).'' Jack Briggs is an

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radio broadcaster.Associated Press site page with Jack Briggs biography
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, Briggs is currently Assistant Sports Director for the

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. He has been with AP Radio for 30 years and is currently the on-air anchor for 50 sportscasts per week. Briggs is also one of the AP's two primary anchors for Olympic programming, having been to every

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since 1980. Briggs did

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work on broadcasts of

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games in the

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until the team's demise in December 1975. He has also called college basketball games for many years.

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