Longtime broadcaster Bob Davis, whose voice became synonymous with Jayhawks basketball and football and who spent many years calling games for the Kansas City Royals, died Thursday in his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas. He was 80. Davis died one week after his wife of 53 years, Linda, passed away. His family did not provide a cause of death Friday.
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