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Former LSC, Angelo State Coach Chris Beard Leads Texas Tech In Final Four

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey
Published April 5, 2019 at 6:00 AM CDT
Angelo State University Athletics

Sam Walker, Texas A&M-Commerce Alumni Engagement director and former men's varsity basketball coach, looks ahead to this weekend's Final Four, in which one of his former rivals, Texas Tech head coach Chris Beard, will be competing.  Beard is a former coach of the Lone Star Conference's Angelo State Rams.  Beard has been named the AP's Men's College Basketball Coach of the Year.  Walker's Lions beat Beard's Rams for the 2015 LSC championship.
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John Mark Dempsey
John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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