Geoff Haxton popped the cassette into the console of his truck.
What he heard changed his life.
He was only 19, a graduate of tiny Ripley High School and a student at Oklahoma State. He’d decided he didn’t have a future playing sports and didn’t want a future coaching them — he’d seen how tough that had been on his dad, who’d coached — but Haxton wanted to stay involved in sports.
Maybe play-by-play was the answer.
After recording himself calling an OSU basketball game, he took the tape to his truck.
“This," he told himself as he listened, "is what I want to do.