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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 129
BY SENATOR LONG AND REPRESENTATI VE HOFFMANN
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To commend and congratulate Jim Hawthorne for receiving the 2016 Distinguished Service
Award in Sports Journalism and on being named to the 2016 Louisiana Sports Hall
of Fame Induction Class.
WHEREAS, the Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism is the most
prestigious honor offered to sports media in Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, inductees are carefully chosen after an extensive deliberation by a
thirty-member expert panel of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame selection committee based
on their professional accomplishments in local, state, regional, and national arenas; and
WHEREAS, the respected and admired "Voice of the Tigers" Jim Hawthorne is the
2016 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism and a member of
the 2016 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Induction Class; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Hawthorne is an Anacoco, Louisiana, native and 1967
Northwestern State University graduate, he has established himself as one of the top
play-by-play commentators in all of collegiate athletics; and
WHEREAS, for more than forty years he has been calling the action on football,
basketball, and baseball broadcasts and serves as the director of broadcasting for Louisiana
State University Sports Radio Network, and called the plays for the Tiger's 2003 and 2007
Bowl Championship Series National Championship victories, as well as six national titles
in baseball and three National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four appearances in
basketball; and
WHEREAS, the long and successful career of Jim Hawthorne has rightly earned him
the 2016 Distinguished Service Award in Sports Journalism and a place among the many
greats in the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.
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THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend and congratulate Jim Hawthorne for receiving the 2016 Distinguished Service
Award in Sports Journalism and for being named to the 2016 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame
Induction Class.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Jim
Hawthorne.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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