The Times is pleased to have Ross Porter providing analysis for us after each Dodgers playoff game this postseason. Ross was a Dodger broadcaster for 28 seasons (1977-2004) and is a member of the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He will provide analysis after Dodger playoff games.

Dodgers-Phillies Series

• Game 5 of the Dodgers-Phillies series
• Game 4 of the Dodgers-Phillies series
• Game 3 of the Dodgers-Phillies series
• Game 2 of the Dodgers-Phillies series
• Game 1 of the NLCS

Dodgers-Cardinals Series

• Game 3 of the Cardinals-Dodgers series
• Game 2 win over the Cardinals

Longtime broadcaster will emcee Iba Awards.

By JIMMIE TRAMEL World Sports Writer
Published: 6/11/2009

Ross Porter said he has eaten more dinners with Vin Scully than either of them have had with their respective wives. That’s life as a sportscaster.

Porter spent 28 years (1977-2004) broadcasting Los Angeles Dodgers games and sharing microphones and meals with Scully, Jerry Doggett, Don Drysdale and Rick Monday.A Shawnee native and University of Oklahoma alum, Porter will return to his home state to serve as master of ceremonies at the 16th annual Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete Awards, scheduled for Monday at the Renaissance Hotel.

Porter has witnessed more streaks than Ray Stevens. Read the entire story

By JIMMIE TRAMEL World Sports Writer
Published: 6/11/2009

When you were in college at OU, you wrote the preview story that appeared in the game program the day Notre Dame ended the Sooners’ 47-game winning streak. Have you ever been called a jinx?

I don’t think anybody remembers it. I saved the program. I’ve got it at home. I still look at it once in a while.

Can you tell the story about going to Notre Dame’s locker room after the game?

Harold Keith was a legendary sports information director at OU and, when I was in school there, I was fortunate enough to be selected as one of his assistants. He had three student assistants when I was there. One was Jimmy (James R.) Jones, who became a congressman, and the other one was John Brooks, who of course (was a broadcaster) for OU and the Oklahoma City Blazers and all that. And we got assignments. One year I was in charge of the OU basketball media guide. I put it out.

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By JIMMIE TRAMEL World Sports Writer
Published: 5/7/2009

ROSS PORTER got see-sick.

Everything he saw in the newspaper darn near made him sick.

“There was a period in the summer — June and July as I recall — in 2007, where when you opened the sports page and it looked like a crime blotter,” said Porter, a Shawnee grad who spent 28 consecutive years as the broadcast voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

“And you turned on sports talk radio and everything was negative. You had Michael Vick and his problem with the dogs. You had the Tour de France where they were disqualifying cyclists for using drugs. You had the NBA referee who was fixing games. You had Barry Bonds and all the baseball players who were accused of using steroids. You had athletes who were beating their wives and they were getting picked up for DUI.

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By JIMMIE TRAMEL World Sports Writer
Published: 4/22/2009

Ross Porter is a Shawnee native who jumped into radio at 14, and eventually called two World Series.

The Rotary Club of Tulsa will announce Wednesday that sportscaster Ross Porter is returning to his home state to be master of ceremonies at the 16th annual Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete Awards, scheduled June 15 at the Renaissance Hotel.

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