DAVENPORT, Iowa --- Jim Zabel once joked that when his life ended, he hoped it would end high above a stadium in a press box so that he would be that much closer to heaven. The Davenport native ...

A Celebration of Life service for longtime Iowa athletics and WHO radio broadcaster Jim Zabel will be held at 4 p.m. June 21 at Lutheran Church of Hope, 925 Jordan Creek Pkwy in West Des Moines ...

Zabel was synonymous with his beloved Iowa Hawkeyes, of course, but I remember hearing him call Drake games when the Bulldogs were mighty good in the 1960s.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Longtime Iowa Hawkeye sports broadcaster Jim Zabel has died at the age of 91. Both Jim's wife and WHO Radio General Manager Joel McCrea confimed Zabel's death on Thursday at ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Longtime Iowa broadcaster, Jim Zabel, 91, died peacefully at his desk in his home, in Scottsdale, Ariz., on May 23, 2013. Services will be held on June 21 at the Lutheran ...

In a phone call with the Register in 2007, broadcaster Jim Zabel talks about why believability is important in a pitchman. Iowa State defensive lineman Domonique Orange on the Cyclones' defense ...

Jim Zabel, who broadcast Iowa athletic events for 50 years, died Thursday at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 91.

Jim Zabel, a Davenport native and Iowa broadcasting legend who was a play-by-play voice for Iowa football and basketball games for nearly half a century, died Thursday.

Longtime Iowa Hawkeye sports broadcaster Jim Zabel has died at the age of 91.